"The Nodequeue module allows users to collect nodes in an arbitrarily ordered list. The order in the list can be used for a any purpose, such as: A block listing teasers for the five top news stories on a site A user’s favorite music albums A group of favorite from which one is randomly displayed Nodequeue provides a simple drag-and-drop interface to manually order any queue. Additionally, it allows nodes to be added and removed from queues without needing edit permissions to the node. Nodes can be added to queues either from a queue management tab or by links on the node teaser."
Mediacurrent quote, "While I don’t care much for the Nodequeue UI, I haven’t been able to find anything better as of yet. Node queue is good for creating arbitrary lists of content and this module has good views integration. http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/top-drupal-7-modules-winter-2014-edition