Year-End Lists

Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2017

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Aromanticism
   Moses Sumney
2. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
5. Black Origami
   Jlin
6. Capacity
   Big Thief
7. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
8. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
   Open Mike Eagle
9. Kelly Lee Owens
   Kelly Lee Owens
10. Utopia
    Björk
11. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
12. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
13. Ctrl
    SZA
14. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
15. Yaeji
    yaeji
15. EP2
    yaeji
16. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
17. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
18. Narkopop
    Gas
19. A Hairshirt of Purpose
    Pile
20. Common Sense
    J Hus

No Depression: Best Albums of 2017

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

• Silver Tears
  Aaron Lee Tasjan
• Faster & Farther
  Darin & Brooke Aldridge
• Pure Comedy
  Father John Misty
• Hallelujah Anyhow
  Hiss Golden Messenger
• The Navigator
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Beast Epic
  Iron & Wine
• The Nashville Sound
  Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
• Joan Shelley
  Joan Shelley
• Contraband Love
  Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
• Grace
  Lizz Wright
• All American Made
  Margo Price
• If All I Was Was Black
  Mavis Staples
• Champion
  Nora Jane Struthers
• Workin’s Too Hard
  Rayna Gellert
• Freedom Highway
  Rhiannon Giddens
• Close Ties
  Rodney Crowell
• Joy Comes Back
  Ruthie Foster
• The Following Mountain
  Sam Amidon
• You Don’t Own Me Anymore
  The Secret Sisters
• Soul of a Woman
  Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
• Queens of the Breakers
  The Barr Brothers
• Transient Lullaby
  The Mastersons
• The Order of Time
  Valerie June

Film School Rejects: Best Movies of 2017

[see also 2010s • 2018]

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. Thelma
   Joachim Trier
3. Columbus
   Kogonada
4. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
5. Foxtrot
   Samuel Maoz
6. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
7. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
8. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
   Angela Robinson
9. Bad Genius
   Nattawut Poonpiriya
10. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
11. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
12. John Wick: Chapter 2
    Chad Stahelski
13. Hostiles
    Scott Cooper
14. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
15. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
16. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
17. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky

The Daily Beast: 10 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2018]

1. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
2. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
3. The Order of Time
   Valerie June
4. Ctrl
   SZA
5. Melodrama
   Lorde
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
8. Science Fiction
   Brand New
9. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
10. Droptopwop
    Gucci Mane

Erin Trahan: Best Movies of 2017, as posted by WBUR's The ARTery

[see also 2018]

• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Motherland
  Ramona S. Diaz
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• The Last Pig
  Allison Argo

Sean Burns: Best Movies of 2017, as posted by WBUR’s The ARTery

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2012 • 2011]

• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson

Hanif Abdurraqib: 39 Favorite Albums Of 2017

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

1. Ctrl
   SZA
2. Peasant
   Richard Dawson
3. SweetSexySavage
   Kehlani
4. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
   Open Mike Eagle
5. Drunk
   Thundercat
6. Melodrama
   Lorde
7. Black Origami
   Jlin
8. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
9. Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
   2 Chainz
10. Cubafonía
    Daymé Arocena
11. Meaning of Life
    Kelly Clarkson
12. The Iceberg
    Oddisee
13. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
14. L.A. Witch
    L.A. Witch
15. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
16. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
17. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
18. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
19. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
20. Hiss Spun
    Chelsea Wolfe
21. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
22. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
23. Slowdive
    Slowdive
24. Harry Styles
    Harry Styles
25. Kid Kruschev
    Sleigh Bells
26. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
27. Brutalism
    Idles
28. Rap Album Two
    Jonwayne
29. Mirror Reaper
    Bell Witch
30. Rosecrans
    DJ Quik & Problem
31. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
32. About Time
    Sabrina Claudio
33. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
34. Narkopop
    Gas
35. Fin
    Syd
36. After Laughter
    Paramore
37. Culture
    Migos
38. No Mountains in Manhattan
    Wiki
39. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
    Big K.R.I.T.

Lloyd Schwartz: Favorite Poetry of 2017, as posted by WBUR’s The ARTery

• New Collected Poems
  Marianne Moore
• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart
• The Aeneid (translated by David Ferry)
  Virgil
• The Amoeba Game
  Tara Skurtu
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

  A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
  Kay Redfield Jamison

a dozen more poetry books, by writers with Boston connections

• Personal Science
  Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
• Advice from the Lights
  Stephen Burt
• Children with Enemies
  Stuart Dischell
• Not Elegy, but Eros
  Nausheen Eusuf
• Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country
  Rebecca Morgan Frank
• Fast
  Jorie Graham
• After Jubilee
  Brionne Janae
• A Dangling House
  Maeve Kinkead
• May All My Wounds Be Mortal
  Karen Locascio
• Said Not Said
  Fred Marchant
• Elizabeth Bishop

  A Miracle for Breakfast
  Megan Marshall
• Reaper
  Jill McDonough

Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2017, as published by Slate

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

• Capacity
  Big Thief
• Utopia
  Björk
• ken
  Destroyer
• Hey Mr Ferryman
  Mark Eitzel
• Audible Songs from Rockwood
  Fiver
• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• Melodrama
  Lorde
• american dream
  LCD Soundsystem
• 50 Song Memoir
  The Magnetic Fields
• Liberation Narratives
  Nicole Mitchell
• Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
  Nicole Mitchell
• Cuidado Madame
  Arto Lindsay
• BANGS
  Jason Moran
• A Crow Looked at Me
  Mount Eerie
• Goths
  The Mountain Goats
• Dark Matter
  Randy Newman
• Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
  Open Mike Eagle
• Wrangled
  Angaleena Presley
• All American Made
  Margo Price
• Residente
  Residente
• Aytche
  Joseph Shabason
• Any Other Way
  Jackie Shane
• The Kid
  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
• Big Fish Theory
  Vince Staples
• Anthology Resource Vol. I: △△
  Dean Hurley
• Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)
  Angelo Badalamenti
• Windswept
  Johnny Jewel
• Out in the Storm
  Waxahatchee

Harper’s Bazaar: Best Books of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Pachinko
   Min Jin Lee
2. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
   Gail Honeyman
3. Saints for All Occasions
   J. Courtney Sullivan
4. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
5. Anything Is Possible
   Elizabeth Strout
6. Little Fires Everywhere
   Celeste Ng
7. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
8. Hunger

   A Memoir of (My) Body
   Roxane Gay
9. What We Lose
   Zinzi Clemmons
10. A Separation
    Katie Kitamura
11. How to Murder Your Life
    Cat Marnell
12. Joni

    The Anthology
    Barney Hoskyns
13. Marlena
    Julie Buntin
14. South and West

    From a Notebook
    Joan Didion
15. The Golden House
    Salman Rushdie
16. My Life with Bob

    Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
    Pamela Paul
17. The Rules Do Not Apply
    Ariel Levy
18. Theft by Finding

    Diaries (1977-2002)
    David Sedaris
19. Debriefing

    Collected Stories
    Susan Sontag