Year-End Lists

Albumism: 50 Best Albums of 2017

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

1. Home Counties
   Saint Etienne
2. Something’s Changing
   Lucy Rose
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
5. Wallflower
   Jordan Rakei
6. Other
   Alison Moyet
7. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
   Big K.R.I.T.
8. Utopia
   Björk
9. Popular
   Van Hunt
10. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
11. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
12. Colors
    Beck
13. Jupiter Calling
    The Corrs
14. Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
    London Grammar
15. Glasshouse
    Jessie Ware
16. Little Fictions
    Elbow
17. Humanz
    Gorillaz
18. The Order of Time
    Valerie June
19. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
20. Somewhere in Between
    VÉRITÉ
21. Slowdive
    Slowdive
22. Native Invader
    Tori Amos
23. Automaton
    Jamiroquai
24. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
25. 4:44
    JAY-Z
26. Visions of a Life
    Wolf Alice
27. Pollinator
    Blondie
28. If All I Was Was Black
    Mavis Staples
29. Imperius Rex
    Sean Price
30. Nat King Cole & Me
    Gregory Porter
31. Shake the Shudder
    !!!
32. All Things Work Together
    Lecrae
33. Just the Beginning
    Grace VanderWaal
34. Willowbank
    Yumi Zouma
35. Mental Illness
    Aimee Mann
36. Radio Silence
    Talib Kweli
37. Love in Beats
    Omar
38. I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone
    Chastity Belt
39. Soul Run
    Tanika Charles
40. Emperor of Sand
    Mastodon
41. Recycle Love
    Izzi Dunn
42. Melodrama
    Lorde
43. YGWY$4
    Tanya Morgan
44. Mister Mellow
    Washed Out
45. Greasy Listening
    J-Zone and Pablo Martin Are the Du-Rites
46. The Sum of a Man
    Sadat X
47. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
48. Stitch of the World
    Tift Merritt
49. Plunge
    Fever Ray
50. Jump on Board
    Texas

Time Out New York: 29 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2018]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Flower Boy
   Tyler, The Creator
3. Slowdive
   Slowdive
4. Shaneera
   Fatima Al Qadiri
5. Rocket
   (Sandy) Alex G
6. Melodrama
   Lorde
7. Ctrl
   SZA
8. After Laughter
   Paramore
9. Hug of Thunder
   Broken Social Scene
10. Arca
    Arca
11. Phantom Brickworks
    Bibio
12. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
13. Black Origami
    Jlin
14. Hot Thoughts
    Spoon
15. Narkopop
    Gas
16. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
17. Ty Segall
    Ty Segall
18. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
19. No Mountains in Manhattan
    Wiki
20. async
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
21. Forced Witness
    Alex Cameron
22. Echolocations: River
    Andrew Bird
23. Plum
    Wand
24. SweetSexySavage
    Kehlani
25. Stellular
    Rose Elinor Dougall
26. Bedouine
    Bedouine
27. Orc
    Oh Sees
28. Bronze Mystic
    Gallops
29. Toss
    Shugo Tokumaru

Film Comment: 20 Best Films of 2017 (as selected by contributors)

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

1. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
2. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
3. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
7. The Death of Louis XIV
   Albert Serra
8. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
9. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
10. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
11. The Human Surge
    Eduardo Williams
12. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
13. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
14. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
15. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
16. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
17. Wonderstruck
    Todd Haynes
18. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
19. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
20. The Square
    Ruben Östlund

Todd McCarthy: 20 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

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

1. Downsizing
   Alexander Payne
2. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. My Journey Through French Cinema
   Bertrand Tavernier
5. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
6. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
7. Graduation
   Cristian Mungiu
8. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
9. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
10. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan

And ten honorable mentions

• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• War for the Planet of the Apes
  Matt Reeves
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• T2 Trainspotting
  Danny Boyle
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
  Joseph Cedar
• Columbus
  Kogonada
• Foxtrot
  Samuel Maoz
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco

NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2017

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

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. Capacity
   Big Thief
4. Process
   Sampha
5. Melodrama
   Lorde
6. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
7. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
8. Rainbow
   Ke$ha
9. The Navigator
   Hurray for the Riff Raff
10. Party
    Aldous Harding
11. 4:44
    JAY-Z
12. Far from Over
    Vijay Iyer Sextet
13. Freedom Highway
    Rhiannon Giddens
14. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
15. Last Leaf
    Danish String Quartet
16. Black Origami
    Jlin
17. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
18. IIII+IIII
    ÌFÉ
19. Rûwâhîne
    Ifriqiyya Electrique
20. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
21. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
22. Luv Is Rage 2
    Lil Uzi Vert
23. What Now
    Sylvan Esso
24. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
25. Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
    La Santa Cecilia
26. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
27. Plunge
    Fever Ray
28. Three Futures
    TORRES
29. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
30. I Am a Man
    Ron Miles
31. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
32. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
33. Kõrvits: Moorland Elegies
    Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Risto Joost
34. Joan Shelley
    Joan Shelley
35. Drunk
    Thundercat
36. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
37. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
38. Culture
    Migos
39. Purgatory
    Tyler Childers
40. On the Rocks
    Midland
41. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
42. Ladilikan
    Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet
43. Palabras Manuales
    Danay Suárez
44. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
45. Mogoya
    Oumou Sangaré
46. Devout
    Mr. Mitch
47. Fly or Die
    Jaimie Branch
48. Tipico
    Miguel Zenón
49. Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
    Marc-André Hamelin
50. After Laughter
    Paramore

Publishers Weekly: 5 Best Poetry Books of 2017

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

• The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons
  A.R. Ammons
• Don’t Call Us Dead
  Danez Smith
• The Happy End / All Welcome
  Monica de la Torre
• In the Still of the Night
  Dara Wier
• We’re On

  A June Jordan Reader
  June Jordan

Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. The OOZ
   King Krule
4. Take Me Apart
   Kelela
5. Melodrama
   Lorde
6. Aromanticism
   Moses Sumney
7. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
8. Flower Boy
   Tyler, The Creator
9. Plunge
   Fever Ray
10. Black Origami
    Jlin
11. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
12. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
13. 4:44
    JAY-Z
14. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
15. Process
    Sampha
16. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
17. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
18. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
19. Culture
    Migos
20. Utopia
    Björk
21. Arca
    Arca
22. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
23. Capacity
    Big Thief
24. Drunk
    Thundercat
25. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
26. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
27. HNDRXX
    Future
28. Ash
    Ibeyi
29. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
30. Slowdive
    Slowdive
31. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
32. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
33. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
34. Love What Survives
    Mount Kimbie
35. Playboi Carti
    Playboi Carti
36. Fin
    Syd
37. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
38. More Life
    Drake
39. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
40. I See You
    The xx
41. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
42. Infinite Worlds
    Vagabon
43. Black Ken
    Lil B
44. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
45. Powerplant
    girlpool
46. Dust
    Laurel Halo
47. SweetSexySavage
    Kehlani
48. Rocket
    (Sandy) Alex G
49. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
50. Yaeji
    yaeji
50. EP2
    yaeji

Alan Sepinwall: 20 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by Uproxx

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

1. The Leftovers
2. Better Things
3. Halt and Catch Fire
4. The Good Place
5. Better Call Saul
6. Twin Peaks: The Return
7. Brockmire
8. Master of None
9. The Deuce
10. One Day at a Time
11. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
12. The Handmaid’s Tale
13. BoJack Horseman
14. Girls
15. Big Little Lies
16. Mindhunter
17. Legion
18. American Vandal
19. Speechless
20. Lady Dynamite

Sophie Gilbert: 24 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2018]

New Shows

• Alias Grace
• American Vandal
• Big Little Lies
• Dear White People
• The Deuce
• Godless
• GLOW
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Keepers
• National Treasure

Returning Shows

• Better Things
• BoJack Horseman
• The Crown
• Game of Thrones
• The Good Place
• Halt and Catch Fire
• Insecure
• The Leftovers
• Stranger Things
• Twin Peaks: The Return

Honorable Mentions

• Mindhunter
• The Mayor
• Big Mouth
• I Love Dick

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2017

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

• Ants Among Elephants

  An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
  Sujatha Gidla
• White Tears
  Hari Kunzru
• The Apparitionists

  A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost
  Peter Manseau
• The Color of Law

  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  Richard Rothstein
• Extreme Cities

  The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
  Ashley Dawson
• Fear City

  New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
  Kim Phillips-Fein
• Ill Will
  Dan Chaon
• In the Distance
  Hernan Diaz
• Grief Cottage
  Gail Godwin
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward