Year-End Lists

Joe Morgenstern: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Wall Street Journal

[see also 2019 • 2018]

1. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro

The rest alphabetical

• Blade Runner 2049
  Denis Villeneuve
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Their Finest
  Lone Scherfig
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins

Time Magazine: Best Fiction and Nonfiction Books of 2017

[see also The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 • The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 • Best Books of 2018]

Fiction

1. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
2. White Tears
   Hari Kunzru
3. Transit
   Rachel Cusk
4. Manhattan Beach
   Jennifer Egan
5. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
6. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
7. The Changeling
   Victor LaValle
8. The Ninth Hour
   Alice McDermott
9. Days Without End
   Sebastian Barry
10. New People
    Danzy Senna

Nonfiction

1. What Happened
   Hillary Rodham Clinton
2. We Were Eight Years in Power

   An American Tragedy
   Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Killers of the Flower Moon

   The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
   David Grann
4. Homo Deus

   A Brief History of Tomorrow
   Yuval Harari
5. The Rules Do Not Apply
   Ariel Levy
6. Hunger

   A Memoir of (My) Body
   Roxane Gay
7. Blind Spot
   Teju Cole
8. The Meaning of Michelle

   16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own
   Veronica Chambers
9. The Evangelicals

   The Struggle to Shape America
   Frances FitzGerald
10. The Vanity Fair Diaries

    1983 – 1992
    Tina Brown

Uproxx: 50 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Melodrama
   Lorde
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
4. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
5. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
6. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
7. 4:44
   JAY-Z
8. Crack-Up
   Fleet Foxes
9. Capacity
   Big Thief
10. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
11. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
12. Half-Light
    Rostam
13. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
14. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
15. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
16. Go Farther in Lightness
    Gang of Youths
17. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
18. Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!
    Milo
19. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
20. Hallelujah Anyhow
    Hiss Golden Messenger
21. Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
    Japandroids
22. Humanz
    Gorillaz
23. Guppy
    Charly Bliss
24. Every Little Thing
    Carly Pearce
25. More Life
    Drake
26. Pleasure
    Feist
27. Process
    Sampha
28. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
29. Need to Feel Your Love
    Sheer Mag
30. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
31. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
32. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
33. You’re Not As _____ As You Think
    Sorority Noise
34. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
35. Life After Youth
    Land of Talk
36. Hard Love
    Strand of Oaks
37. I See You
    The xx
38. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
39. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
40. This Is Steve
    Delicate Steve
41. First Cigarette
    Travis Meadows
42. Ti Amo
    Phoenix
43. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
44. City Music
    Kevin Morby
45. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
46. Rocket
    (Sandy) Alex G
47. Infinite Worlds
    Vagabon
48. No One Loves You
    Blis
49. Rosecrans
    DJ Quik & Problem
50. Migration
    Bonobo

Miriam Bale: Top 10 Films of 2017 (as posted to Twitter and submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll)

[see also 2010s • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
2. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
4. Song to Song
   Terrence Malick
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
7. mother!
   Darren Aronofsky
8. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
9. Hermia & Helena
   Matías Piñeiro
10. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery

Additional films submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Common Carrier
  James N. Kienitz Wilkins
• A Better Man
  Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 26 Films of 2017

E. Ce Miller: 18 Best Poetry Collections of 2017, as published by Bustle

[see also 2018 • 2016]

• Testify
  Simone John
• bone
  Yrsa Daley-Ward
• Magdalene
  Marie Howe
• Earthling
  James Longenbach
• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart
• I Wore My Blackest Hair
  Carlina Duan
• The Sun and Her Flowers
  Rupi Kaur
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• Unaccompanied
  Javier Zamora
• I Am Flying into Myself

  Selected Poems, 1960-2014
  Bill Knott
• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
  Chen Chen
• Thousands
  Lightsey Darst
• In the Language of My Captor
  Shane McCrae
• Together and By Ourselves
  Alex Dimitrov
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• WHEREAS
  Layli Long Soldier
• My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
  Aja Monet
• How Lovely the Ruins

  Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times
  various poets, selected by Annie Chagnot and Emi Ikkanda

Mark Kermode: Top 10 Films of 2017, as published by The Observer

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

• Raw
  Julia Ducournau
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• The Levelling
  Hope Dickson Leach
• The Red Turtle
  Michael Dudok de Wit
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• My Life as a Courgette
  Claude Barras
• Toni Erdmann
  Maren Ade
• Blade Runner 2049
  Denis Villeneuve
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• In Between
  Maysaloun Hamoud

Chicago Review of Books: 8 Best Poetry Books of 2017

[see also 2018 • 2016]

• A People’s History of Chicago
  Kevin Coval
• Nature Poem
  Tommy Pico
• Electric Arches
  Eve L. Ewing
• Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
  Charif Shanahan
• The Nightlife
  Elise Paschen
• Phrasis
  Wendy Xu
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• Perception
  Christina Pugh

Kitty Empire: Top 10 Albums of 2017, as published by The Observer

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

• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• MASSEDUCTION
  St. Vincent
• No Shape
  Perfume Genius
• american dream
  LCD Soundsystem
• Party
  Aldous Harding
• Big Fish Theory
  Vince Staples
• Melodrama
  Lorde
• Pure Comedy
  Father John Misty
• Aromanticism
  Moses Sumney
• Heavy Meta
  Ron Gallo

Jon Caramanica: 25 Best Albums of 2017, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2011]

1. Reaper
   nothing,nowhere.
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
4. From the Outside
   Hey Violet
5. reputation
   Taylor Swift
6. I
   Niia
7. Odisea
   Ozuna
8. 4 Your Eyez Only
   J. Cole
9. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
10. Melodrama
    Lorde
11. Good For You
    Aminé
12. Issa Album
    21 Savage
13. More Life
    Drake
14. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
15. Common Sense
    J Hus
16. The Chief
    Jidenna
17. SOB X RBE
    SOB X RBE
18. Unapologetically
    Kelsea Ballerini
19. AI YoungBoy
    YoungBoy Never Broke Again
20. FUTURE
    Future
21. 4:44
    JAY-Z
22. Chills & Fever
    Samantha Fish
23. Cost of Living
    Downtown Boys
24. Fifth Harmony
    Fifth Harmony
25. Thot Breaker
    Chief Keef

Jon Pareles: 10 Best Albums of 2017, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2011]

1. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
2. Residente
   Residente
3. Aromanticism
   Moses Sumney
4. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
5. Utopia
   Björk
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Melodrama
   Lorde
8. Ctrl
   SZA
9. The Order of Time
   Valerie June
10. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples