I'm a sucker for a listicle, pt. 1: Forbes' High Fives archives.

Pt. 2 (well, not really a listicle, but a series of essays, one per year): New York Times' Op-Ed's "The Decade We Had," by Richard Ford, William Langewiesche, Mimi Swartz, Leon Wieseltier, Scott Turow, Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Powers, Anthony Bourdain, Collum McCann, and Mary Karr.