Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Greg Kot: Sound Opinions: The Best Albums of 2025
Alternative Press: 50 Best Albums of 2024
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
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Breathless

The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

by David Quammen

Appears on Two Lists

Nonfiction 2022: National Book Award
100 Notable Books of 2022: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Albums of 2025 Greg Kot · Sound Opinions
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
The Best Movies of 2024 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Albums of 2025 Obscure Sound
The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s IndieWire
100 Notable Books of 2018 Washington Post
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
Best Albums of 2025 Lindsay Zoladz · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
50 Best Albums of 2024 Alternative Press
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Devil All the Time Antonio Campos
Non-Fiction Olivier Assayas
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie David Soren
Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss Mykki Blanco
The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer
Black Box Diaries Shiori Itō
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
The Tragedy of Macbeth Joel Coen
Icarus Bryan Fogel
Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
Sex Education
Chinese Portrait Wang Xiaoshuai
Medieval Horizons Ian Mortimer

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