Year-End Lists

Ann Powers: Top 10 Underheard Albums of 2017, as posted by NPR

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2016 • 2011]

• Small Believer
  Anna Tivel
• I Tell A Fly
  Benjamin Clementine
• Don’t Give up on Love
  Don Bryant
• Exile In the Outer Ring
  EMA
• Trip
  Jhené Aiko
• Trinity Lane
  Lilly Hiatt
• Champion
  Nora Jane Struthers
• 1992 Deluxe
  Princess Nokia
• Natural Conclusion
  Rose Cousins
• Sneaker Waves
  Tristen

Nate Chinen: Top 21 Albums of 2017, as published by NPR

[see also 2022 • 2011]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. I Am a Man
   Ron Miles
3. Far from Over
   Vijay Iyer Sextet
4. BANGS
   Jason Moran
4. New American Songbooks, Volume 1
   Greg Saunier/Mary Halvorson/Ron Miles
5. Fly or Die
   Jaimie Branch
6. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
7. Tipico
   Miguel Zenón
8. Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
   Nicole Mitchell
9. Ctrl
   SZA
10. Forage
    Matt Mitchell & Tim Berne

Honorable Mention

• Gnosis
  David Virelles
• Dreams and Daggers
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Freedom Highway
  Rhiannon Giddens
• Verisimilitude
  Tyshawn Sorey
• Melodrama
  Lorde
• KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere
  Nate Smith
• MASSEDUCTION
  St. Vincent
• Passin’ Thru
  Charles Lloyd New Quartet
• Arise
  Zara McFarlane
• Headnod Suite
  Karriem Riggins

Mark Olsen: 20 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2018]

1. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
2. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
3. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
   Noah Baumbach
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
9. The Disaster Artist
   James Franco
10. The Square
    Ruben Östlund

And another 10 that could easily have been slotted in somewhere (alphabetical)

• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• Ingrid Goes West
  Matt Spicer
• Logan
  James Mangold
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• Nocturama
  Bertrand Bonello
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson

Stephen Thompson: Top 10 Albums of 2017, as posted by NPR

[see also 2011]

1. What Now
   Sylvan Esso
2. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
3. Rainbow
   Ke$ha
4. Capacity
   Big Thief
5. Ctrl
   SZA
6. Year of the Rabbit
   Allison Pierce
7. Joan Shelley
   Joan Shelley
8. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
9. Stranger in the Alps
   Phoebe Bridgers
10. Sleep Well Beast
    The National

Robin Hilton: Top 10 Albums of 2017, as posted by NPR

[see also 2019]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Pleasure
   Feist
3. Capacity
   Big Thief
4. Melodrama
   Lorde
5. In Search of Lost Time
   Partner
6. Hiss Spun
   Chelsea Wolfe
7. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
8. Halo
   Juana Molina
9. A Ghost Story (Original Soundtrack Album)
   Daniel Hart
10. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty

Bob Boilen: Top 12 Albums of 2017, as posted by NPR

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2011]

1. Capacity
   Big Thief
2. Party
   Aldous Harding
3. Aromanticism
   Moses Sumney
4. Young
   Overcoats
5. RELAXER
   alt-J
6. Silence
   Tom Adams
7. Semper Femina
   Laura Marling
8. Gracie and Rachel
   Gracie and Rachel
9. Wide Open
   Weaves
10. You & I
    ALA.NI

Honorable Mentions

• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remix)
  The Beatles
• Reflection
  Brian Eno

Alissa Wilkinson: 35 Best Films of 2017, as published by Vox

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

1. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
2. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
3. The Work
   Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. Princess Cyd
   Stephen Cone
6. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
7. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
8. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
9. Columbus
   Kogonada
10. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
11. Rat Film
    Theo Anthony
12. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
13. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
14. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
15. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
16. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
17. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
18. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd
19. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer
20. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
21. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson

Honorable Mentions

• Marjorie Prime
  Michael Almereyda
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Casting JonBenet
  Kitty Green
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• Graduation
  Cristian Mungiu
• Spettacolo
  Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen
• Loveless
  Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan
  Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger
• In Transit
  David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
• The Reagan Show
  Sierra Pettengill and Pacho Velez

Justin Chang: 32 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

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

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. mother!
   Darren Aronofsky
5. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
6. Columbus
   Kogonada
7. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
8. Brawl in Cell Block 99
   S. Craig Zahler
9. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
10. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu
11. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves
12. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan

Plus 20 honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Detroit
  Kathryn Bigelow
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• Loveless
  Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• Raw
  Julia Ducournau
• Son of Joseph
  Eugène Green
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• The Work
  Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous

John Freeman: 22 Best Fiction Books of 2017, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2016]

• Borne
  Jeff VanderMeer
• Blameless
  Claudio Magris
• The Burning Girl
  Claire Messud
• The City Always Wins
  Omar Robert Hamilton
• Cockfosters
  Helen Simpson
• The End of Eddy
  Édouard Louis
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Fever Dream
  Samanta Schweblin
• Frontier
  Can Xue
• Go, Went, Gone
  Jenny Erpenbeck
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• Home Fire
  Kamila Shamsie
• House of Names
  Colm Tóibín
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• The Lonely Hearts Hotel
  Heather O’Neill
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
  Arundhati Roy
• My Cat Yugoslavia
  Pajtim Statovci
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• The Power
  Naomi Alderman
• Savage Theories
  Pola Oloixarac
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• Things We Lost in the Fire
  Mariana Enriquez

Kate Tuttle: 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2017, as published by The Boston Globe

[see also 2016]

• American Fire

  Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
  Monica Hesse
• The Blood of Emmett Till
  Timothy B. Tyson
• Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
  Jed Perl
• The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
  Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Color of Law

  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  Richard Rothstein
• Elizabeth Bishop

  A Miracle for Breakfast
  Megan Marshall
• The Extra Woman

  How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It
  Joanna Scutts
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• Grant
  Ron Chernow
• Janesville

  An American Story
  Amy Goldstein
• The Kelloggs

  The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
  Howard Markel
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• Nine Continents

  A Memoir In and Out of China
  Xiaolu Guo
• Prairie Fires

  The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Caroline Fraser
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

  A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
  Kay Redfield Jamison
• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What Happened
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  Sherman Alexie