Year-End Lists

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
2. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. The Weather Station
   The Weather Station
5. Joan Shelley
   Joan Shelley
6. Peasant
   Richard Dawson
7. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
8. Lotta Sea Lice
   Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
9. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
10. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
11. Slowdive
    Slowdive
12. How the West Was Won
    Peter Perrett
13. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
14. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
15. Simultonality
    Joshua Abrams
16. Modern Kosmology
    Jane Weaver
17. Halo
    Juana Molina
18. Melodrama
    Lorde
19. Music for the Age of Miracles
    The Clientele
20. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
21. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
22. Ty Segall
    Ty Segall
23. Balsams
    Chuck Johnson
24. All American Made
    Margo Price
25. Carry Fire
    Robert Plant
26. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
27. Hallelujah Anyhow
    Hiss Golden Messenger
28. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
29. 50
    Michael Chapman
30. Music For People In Trouble
    Susanne Sundfør
31. Narkopop
    Gas
32. English Tapas
    Sleaford Mods
33. Orc
    Oh Sees
34. Home Counties
    Saint Etienne
35. Flying Microtonal Banana
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
36. New Energy
    Four Tet
37. Weather Diaries
    Ride
38. Robyn Hitchcock
    Robyn Hitchcock
39. Arca
    Arca
40. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
41. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
42. Drunk
    Thundercat
43. Ladilikan
    Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet
44. What in the Natural World
    Jake Xerxes Fussell
45. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
46. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene
47. The Weather
    Pond
48. It’s Alright Between Us as It Is
    Lindstrøm
49. Adiós Señor Pussycat
    Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
50. I See You
    The xx
51. Dark Matter
    Randy Newman
52. Dreaming in the Non-Dream
    Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
53. Ctrl
    SZA
54. Elwan
    Tinariwen
55. Interplanetary Class Classics
    The Moonlandingz
56. House and Land
    House and Land
57. The French Press
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
58. Plum
    Wand
59. Screen Memories
    John Maus
60. Bajas Fresh
    Bitchin Bajas
61. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
62. Hey Mr Ferryman
    Mark Eitzel
63. City Music
    Kevin Morby
64. World Eater
    Blanck Mass
65. In Mind
    Real Estate
66. Resin Pockets
    Crescent
67. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
68. Reflections – Mojave Desert
    Floating Points
69. Hippopotamus
    Sparks
70. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
71. Poor David’s Almanack
    David Rawlings
72. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
73. Party
    Aldous Harding
74. Pleasure
    Feist
75. Prisoner
    Ryan Adams

Elizabeth Lund: 5 Best Poetry Collections of 2017, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

• Devotions

  The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
  Mary Oliver
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• Good Bones
  Maggie Smith
• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart
• WHEREAS
  Layli Long Soldier

Mojo Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
2. Preservation
   Nadia Reid
3. Villains
   Queens of the Stone Age
4. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
   A Tribe Called Quest
5. Modern Kosmology
   Jane Weaver
6. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
7. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
8. The Navigator
   Hurray for the Riff Raff
9. English Tapas
   Sleaford Mods
10. Party
    Aldous Harding
11. Interplanetary Class Classics
    The Moonlandingz
12. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
13. Dark Days + Canapés
    Ghostpoet
14. Moonshine Freeze
    This Is the Kit
15. Hippopotamus
    Sparks
16. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
17. Journey to the Mountain of Forever
    Binker and Moses
18. Gargoyle
    Mark Lanegan Band
19. Mental Illness
    Aimee Mann
20. Peasant
    Richard Dawson
21. Drunk
    Thundercat
22. How the West Was Won
    Peter Perrett
23. Résistance
    Songhoy Blues
24. Orc
    Oh Sees
25. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
26. The Source
    Tony Allen
27. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
28. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
29. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
30. Concrete Desert
    The Bug & Earth
31. Music For People In Trouble
    Susanne Sundfør
32. Kidal
    Tamikrest
33. Dark Matter
    Randy Newman
34. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
35. Process
    Sampha
36. Silver / Lead
    Wire
37. A Kind Revolution
    Paul Weller
38. Mogoya
    Oumou Sangaré
39. Que Aura
    Kelley Stoltz
40. Colors
    Beck
41. Vibe Killer
    Endless Boogie
42. Concrete and Gold
    Foo Fighters
43. Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines
    Shabazz Palaces
44. Before the Dawn
    Kate Bush
45. Visions of a Life
    Wolf Alice
46. Every Country’s Sun
    Mogwai
47. Is This the Life We Really Want?
    Roger Waters
48. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
49. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
50. In Time
    Wrongtom & The Ragga Twins

The Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2017

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• Behave

  The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
  Robert M. Sapolsky
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• I Can’t Breathe

  A Killing on Bay Street
  Matt Taibbi
• I Was Told to Come Alone

  My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
  Souad Mekhennet
• Less
  Andrew Sean Greer
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• The Power
  Naomi Alderman
• Rising Star

  The Making of Barack Obama
  David Garrow
• Saints for All Occasions
  J. Courtney Sullivan
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward

National Book Award: Fiction 2017

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward

Finalists

• Dark at the Crossing
  Elliot Ackerman
• The Leavers
  Lisa Ko
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado

Longlist

• The King Is Always Above the People
  Daniel Alarcón
• Miss Burma
  Charmaine Craig
• Manhattan Beach
  Jennifer Egan
• A Kind of Freedom
  Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Barren Island
  Carol Zoref

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2017

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen

Finalists

• Never Caught

  The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
  Erica Armstrong Dunbar
• The Evangelicals

  The Struggle to Shape America
  Frances FitzGerald
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• Democracy in Chains

  The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
  Nancy MacLean

Longlist

• Locking Up Our Own

  Crime and Punishment in Black America
  James Forman Jr.
• No Is Not Enough

  Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
  Naomi Klein
• The Color of Law

  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  Richard Rothstein
• The Blood of Emmett Till
  Timothy B. Tyson
• Bunk

  The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
  Kevin Young

National Book Award: Poetry 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart

Finalists

• The Book of Endings
  Leslie Harrison
• In the Language of My Captor
  Shane McCrae
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• WHEREAS
  Layli Long Soldier

Longlist

• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
  Chen Chen
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• Magdalene
  Marie Howe
• Where Now

  New and Selected Poems
  Laura Kasischke
• Square Inch Hours
  Sherod Santos

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2017, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• The Gulf

  The Making of An American Sea
  Jack E. Davis

Finalists

• The Seeds of Life

  From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
  Edward Dolnick
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• Tell Me How It Ends

  An Essay in 40 Questions
  Valeria Luiselli
• The Cooking Gene

  A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
  Michael Twitty
• Henry David Thoreau

  A Life
  Laura Dassow Walls

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2017, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
  Lesley Nneka Arimah

Finalists

• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• White Tears
  Hari Kunzru
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• The Ninth Hour
  Alice McDermott
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward