Year-End Lists

Earbuddy: 100 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2018]

1. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
2. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
3. Three Futures
   TORRES
4. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
5. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
6. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
7. Melodrama
   Lorde
8. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
9. Crack-Up
   Fleet Foxes
10. Capacity
    Big Thief
11. Imitation of a Woman To Love
    Casey Dienel
12. Cry Cry Cry
    Wolf Parade
13. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
14. Rocket
    (Sandy) Alex G
15. Hiss Spun
    Chelsea Wolfe
16. 4:44
    JAY-Z
17. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
18. I’m Not Your Man
    Marika Hackman
19. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
20. V
    The Horrors
21. Chill, dummy
    P.O.S.
22. I See You
    The xx
23. Forced Witness
    Alex Cameron
24. Drunk
    Thundercat
25. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
26. Mountain Moves
    Deerhoof
27. The OOZ
    King Krule
28. Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
    Sun Kil Moon
29. In Spades
    The Afghan Whigs
30. Utopia
    Björk
31. Rainbow
    Ke$ha
32. Fin
    Syd
33. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
34. Love What Survives
    Mount Kimbie
35. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
36. Need to Feel Your Love
    Sheer Mag
37. Communicating
    Hundred Waters
38. This Old Dog
    Mac DeMarco
39. Call It Love
    Briana Marela
40. Apocalipstick
    Cherry Glazerr
41. Door Girl
    Shilpa Ray
42. I Love You Like a Brother
    Alex Lahey
43. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
    Big K.R.I.T.
44. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
45. Abysmal Thoughts
    The Drums
46. Plunge
    Fever Ray
47. Shitty Hits
    Katie Von Schleicher
48. Impermanence
    Peter Silberman
49. Villains
    Queens of the Stone Age
50. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
51. Every Country’s Sun
    Mogwai
52. You’re Not As _____ As You Think
    Sorority Noise
53. Something To Tell You
    HAIM
54. The Far Field
    Future Islands
55. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
56. Wake in Fright
    Uniform
57. Moh Lhean
    WHY?
58. Bedouine
    Bedouine
59. I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
    Chastity Belt
60. Dada
    B Boys
61. Middle Kids
    Middle Kids
62. Ruinism
    Lapalux
63. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
64. Panic in Hampton Bays
    Citris
65. Crawl Space
    Tei Shi
66. Sodium
    Dasher
67. Hit the Light
    Ten Fé
68. Our Pleasure
    Single Mothers
69. Slowdive
    Slowdive
70. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
71. A Black Mile To The Surface
    Manchester Orchestra
72. Death Peak
    Clark
73. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
74. Semper Femina
    Laura Marling
75. Naughtland
    Nurses
76. Concordia
    Happy Hollows
77. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
78. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
79. Mental Illness
    Aimee Mann
80. The Centre Cannot Hold
    Ben Frost
81. New Born
    Lovely Dark
82. Heartless
    Pallbearer
83. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
84. Arca
    Arca
85. Care
    David Bazan
86. Colliding By Design
    Acceptance
87. No Pop
    Odonis Odonis
88. Life Without Sound
    Cloud Nothings
89. Odd Hours
    Caddywhompus
90. Swear I’m Good At This
    Diet Cig
91. True Care
    James Vincent McMorrow
92. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
93. Everything Now
    Arcade Fire
94. BE HERE NOW
    The Mynabirds
95. Moonshine Freeze
    This Is the Kit
96. Concrete Desert
    The Bug & Earth
97. Untouchable
    The Cairo Gang
98. Untitled
    Wall
99. Graveyard of Good Times
    Brandon Can’t Dance
100. Bravado
     Kirin J Callinan

Entropy: Best Books of 2017, divided into fiction and nonfiction (numbered but “in no particular order”)

[see also 2018]

Fiction

1. Isadora
   Amelia Gray
2. The Book of Joan
   Lidia Yuknavitch
3. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
4. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
5. Sour Heart
   Jenny Zhang
6. The Changeling
   Victor LaValle
7. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
   Leonora Carrington
8. Down Below
   Leonora Carrington
9. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
10. Motherest
    Kristen Iskandrian
11. No One Can Pronounce My Name
    Rakesh Satyal
12. The Dark Dark
    Samantha Hunt
13. The Red Barn
    Nat Baldwin
14. Silk Flowers
    Meghan Lamb
15. The Disintegrations
    Alistair McCartney
16. The Protester Has Been Released
    Janet Sarbanes
17. Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
    Patty Yumi Cottrell
18. The Golden House
    Salman Rushdie
19. Made for Love
    Alissa Nutting
20. The Complete Ballet

    A Fictional Essay in Five Acts
    John Haskell
21. Her Body and Other Parties
    Carmen Maria Machado
22. Homesick for Another World
    Ottessa Moshfegh
23. Tales of Falling and Flying
    Ben Loory
24. Sonata in K
    Karen An-hwei Lee
25. Enfermario
    Gabriela Torres Olivares
26. The Secret Room
    Kazim Ali
27. The Ladies
    Sara Veglahn
28. The Idiot
    Elif Batuman
29. The Leavers
    Lisa Ko
30. Genevieves
    Henry Hoke
31. Frontier
    Can Xue
32. Assisted Living
    Gary Lutz
33. The Grip of It
    Jac Jemc
34. The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings
    Juan Rulfo
35. Not One Day
    Anne Garréta
36. An Occasional History
    Laura Davenport
37. The Truth About Me
    Louise Marburg
38. The Week
    Joanna Ruocco
39. Houses of Ravicka
    Renee Gladman
40. New People
    Danzy Senna
41. Before Everything
    Victoria Redel
42. Wait Till You See Me Dance
    Deb Olin Unferth
43. Home Fire
    Kamila Shamsie
44. The World Goes On
    László Krasznahorkai
45. Stephen Florida
    Gabe Habash
46. Empty Set
    Verónica Gerber Bicecci
47. My Heart Hemmed In
    Marie NDiaye
48. Little Fires Everywhere
    Celeste Ng
49. Buckskin Cocaine
    Erika T. Wurth
50. Man’s Wars and Wickedness

    A Book of Proposed Remedies and Extreme Formulations for Curing Hositlity, Rivalry, and Ill-Will
    Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz
51. Large Animals
    Jess Arndt
52. Is God Is
    Aleshea Harris
53. Pachinko
    Min Jin Lee
54. Modern Love
    Constance DeJong
55. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Mariana Enriquez
56. Notes of a Crocodile
    Qiu Miaojin
57. Ice

    50th Anniversary Edition
    Anna Kavan
58. Writers Who Love Too Much

    New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
    Edited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian
59. The Passion of Woo & Isolde
    Jennifer Tseng
60. A Small Revolution
    Jimin Han

Nonfiction

1. Afterglow (a dog memoir)
   Eileen Myles
2. After Kathy Acker
   Chris Kraus
3. 300 Arguments
   Sarah Manguso
4. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
   Hanif Abdurraqib
5. Hunger

   A Memoir of (My) Body
   Roxane Gay
6. Sunshine State
   Sarah Gerard
7. Why Poetry
   Matthew Zapruder
8. Irradiated Cities
   Mariko Nagai
9. The Book of Disquiet

   The Complete Edition
   Fernando Pessoa
10. Of Sphere
    Karla Kelsey
11. Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit
    Aisha Sabatini Sloan
12. Autumn
    Karl Ove Knausgaard
13. Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
    Yiyun Li
14. Being a Beast

    Adventures Across the Species Divide
    Charles Foster
15. You, Me, and the Violence
    Catherine Taylor
16. We Were Eight Years in Power

    An American Tragedy
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
17. The Misfit’s Manifesto
    Lidia Yuknavitch
18. The Art of Death

    Writing the Final Story
    Edwidge Danticat
19. Swallow the Fish
    Gabrielle Civil
20. Blind Spot
    Teju Cole
21. like a solid to a shadow
    Janice Lobo Sapigao
22. Emergent Strategy

    Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
    adrienne maree brown
23. Cecilia Vicuña

    About to Happen
    various authors
24. Final Fantasy V
    Chris Kohler
25. Book of Mutter
    Kate Zambreno
26. Dying
    Cory Taylor
27. Caca Dolce

    Essays from a Lowbrow Life
    Chelsea Martin
28. The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

    1940-1956
    Sylvia Plath
29. Living a Feminist Life
    Sara Ahmed
30. Ideal Suggestions

    Essays in Divinatory Poetics
    Selah Saterstrom
31. Birds Art Life

    A Year of Observation
    Kyo Maclear
32. From Our Hearts to Yours

    New Narrative as Contemporary Practice
    Edited by Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw
33. The Sarah Book
    Scott McClanahan
34. Long Shot

    The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter
    Craig Hodges
35. A Woman Is a Woman Until She Is a Mother
    Anna Prushinskaya
36. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
    Samantha Irby
37. No Is Not Enough

    Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
    Naomi Klein
38. How to Keep You Alive
    Ella Longpre
39. Bunk

    The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
    Kevin Young
40. A TransPacific Poetics
    Edited by Lisa Samuels & Sawako Nakayasu

Michael J. Anderson: Ten Best Films of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s]

• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• Milla
  Valérie Massadian
• Downsizing
  Alexander Payne
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  Bruno Dumont
• The Other Side of Hope
  Aki Kaurismäki
• Ghost in the Mountains
  Yang Heng
• Lover for a Day
  Philippe Garrel

Entropy: Best Poetry Books of 2017 (numbered but “in no particular order”)

[see also 2019 • 2018]

1. Inherit
   Ginger Ko
2. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
   Chen Chen
3. WHEREAS
   Layli Long Soldier
4. Don’t Call Us Dead
   Danez Smith
5. Beast Meridian
   Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
6. In the Language of My Captor
   Shane McCrae
7. Field Theories
   Samiya Bashir
8. Nature Poem
   Tommy Pico
9. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
   Morgan Parker
10. The Yellow House
    Chiwan Choi
11. I’m So Fine

    A List of Famous Men & What I Had On
    Khadijah Queen
12. In Full Velvet
    Jenny Johnson
13. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
    Kaveh Akbar
14. Here High Note, High Note
    Catherine Blauvelt
15. Outplace
    Lital Khaikin
16. recombinant
    Ching-In Chen
17. Love, Robot
    Margaret Rhee
18. Together and By Ourselves
    Alex Dimitrov
19. Good Stock Strange Blood
    Dawn Lundy Martin
20. Ordinary Beast
    Nicole Sealey
21. Thousand Star Hotel
    Bao Phi
22. Desgraciado
    Ángel Domínguez
23. The Flayed City
    Hari Alluri
24. Field Glass
    Joanna Howard and Joanna Ruocco
25. Madness
    Sam Sax
26. Hollywood Forever
    Harmony Holiday
27. The Happy End / All Welcome
    Monica de la Torre
28. A Turkish Dictionary
    Andrew Wessels
29. The Most Foreign Country
    Alejandra Pizarnik
30. Half-Light

    Collected Poems 1965-2016
    Frank Bidart
31. MyOTHER TONGUE
    Rosa Alcalá
32. The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded
    Molly McCully Brown
33. Thrust
    Heather Derr-Smith
34. Gnome
    Robert Lunday
35. the magic my body becomes
    Jess Rizkallah
36. In the Still of the Night
    Dara Wier
37. Afterland
    Mai Der Vang
38. Lessons on Expulsion
    Erika L. Sánchez
39. Gray Market
    Krystal Languell
40. Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut
    Vickie Vértiz
41. Light Into Bodies
    Nancy Chen Long
42. Resistance, Rebellion, Life

    50 Poems Now
    Edited by Amit Majmudar
43. Some Beheadings
    Aditi Machado
44. I Love It Though
    Alli Warren
45. Good Bones
    Maggie Smith
46. Map to the Stars
    Adrian Matejka
47. I Remember Nightfall
    Marosa di Giorgio
48. Hard Child
    Natalie Shapero
49. Prosopopoeia
    Farid Tali
50. Adrenalin
    Ghayath Almadhoun
51. My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
    Aja Monet
52. Fast
    Jorie Graham
53. Adam Cannot Be Adam
    Kelli Anne Noftle
54. Anemal Uter Meck
    Mg Roberts
55. Open Epic
    Julia Drescher
56. Pizza and Warfare
    Nikki Wallschlaeger
57. Unaccompanied
    Javier Zamora
58. The Book of Endings
    Leslie Harrison
59. To Love the Coming End
    Leanne Dunic
60. What’s Hanging on the Hush
    Lauren Russell

The 405: Top 20 Albums of 2017

[see also 2018]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
3. Plunge
   Fever Ray
4. Ctrl
   SZA
5. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
6. Capacity
   Big Thief
7. Process
   Sampha
8. Crack-Up
   Fleet Foxes
9. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
   Ariel Pink
10. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
11. 4:44
    JAY-Z
12. Always Foreign
    The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
13. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
14. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
15. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
16. Utopia
    Björk
17. Melodrama
    Lorde
18. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
19. Fin
    Syd
20. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples

Glenn Kenny: 63 Best Films of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012]

• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Taipei Story
  Edward Yang
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• The Death of Louis XIV
  Albert Serra
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• The Bad Batch
  Ana Lily Amirpour
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker

First Tier Honorable Mentions

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Afterimage
  Andrzej Wajda
• The Beguiled
  Sofia Coppola
• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
  Errol Morris
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler
• Colossal
  Nacho Vigalondo
• Columbus
  Kogonada
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• Endless Poetry
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Félicité
  Alain Gomis
• Gerald’s Game
  Mike Flanagan
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Glory
  Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• Happy End
  Michael Haneke
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• I, Olga Hepnarová
  Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• Porto
  Gabe Klinger
• Last Men in Aleppo
  Firas Fayyad
• Logan
  James Mangold
• Long Strange Trip
  Amir Bar-Lev
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• The Lovers
  Azazel Jacobs
• Manifesto
  Julian Rosefeldt
• Marjorie Prime
  Michael Almereyda
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Moka
  Frédéric Mermoud
• The Other Side of Hope
  Aki Kaurismäki
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Son of Joseph
  Eugène Green
• Suntan
  Argyris Papadimitropoulos
• The Unknown Girl
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• Valerian
  Luc Besson
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan

Second Tier Honorable Mentions

• Alien: Covenant
  Ridley Scott
• Bang! The Bert Berns Story
  Brett Berns and Bob Sarles
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Blade Runner 2049
  Denis Villeneuve
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Free Fire
  Ben Wheatley
• The Glass Castle
  Destin Daniel Cretton
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• Hermia & Helena
  Matías Piñeiro
• Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
  Griffin Dunne
• Maudie
  Aisling Walsh
• Slack Bay
  Bruno Dumont
• Wonder
  Stephen Chbosky

Conflicts of Interest

• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh

Peter Travers: 10 Best Movies of 2017, as published by Rolling Stone

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

1. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
2. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
3. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
5. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
8. Detroit
   Kathryn Bigelow
9. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
10. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson

Diffuser: Top 25 Albums of 2017

[see also 2015]

1. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
2. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
3. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
4. Hot Thoughts
   Spoon
5. Villains
   Queens of the Stone Age
6. Crack-Up
   Fleet Foxes
7. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
   Ariel Pink
8. Mental Illness
   Aimee Mann
9. Hug of Thunder
   Broken Social Scene
10. Melodrama
    Lorde
11. A Walk with Love and Death
    Melvins
12. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
13. Whiteout Conditions
    The New Pornographers
14. Utopia
    Björk
15. Humanz
    Gorillaz
16. Last Place
    Grandaddy
17. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
18. Slowdive
    Slowdive
19. I See You
    The xx
20. Ty Segall
    Ty Segall
21. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
22. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
23. A Kind Revolution
    Paul Weller
24. Oczy Mlody
    The Flaming Lips
25. As You Were
    Liam Gallagher

David Fear: 22 Best Documentaries of 2017, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
2. The Work
   Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
3. All These Sleepless Nights
   Michal Marczak
4. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
5. LA 92
   Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin
6. Machines
   Rahul Jain
7. Whose Streets?
   Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
8. Long Strange Trip
   Amir Bar-Lev
9. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
   Chris Smith
10. Quest
    Jonathan Olshefski

Honorable mentions

• Casting JonBenet
  Kitty Green
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Contemporary Color
  Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• I Called Him Morgan
  Kasper Collin
• Jane
  Brett Morgen
• Last Men in Aleppo
  Firas Fayyad
• May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
  Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio
• Oklahoma City
  Barak Goodman
• Rat Film
  Theo Anthony
• 78/52
  Alexandre O. Philippe
• Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
  Corbett Redford

Entertainment Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
2. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
3. Killers of the Flower Moon

   The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
   David Grann
4. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
5. Little Fires Everywhere
   Celeste Ng
6. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
   Emil Ferris
7. Goodbye, Vitamin
   Rachel Khong
8. The Power
   Naomi Alderman
9. The Hate U Give
   Angie Thomas
10. The Rules Do Not Apply
    Ariel Levy