Year-End Lists

Revolver Magazine: 20 Best Albums of 2017

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

1. Forever
   Code Orange
2. Nightmare Logic
   Power Trip
3. Emperor of Sand
   Mastodon
4. Hiss Spun
   Chelsea Wolfe
5. The Dusk In Us
   Converge
6. Post Self
   Godflesh
7. Modern Ruin
   Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
8. Mass VI
   Amenra
9. Motherblood
   Grave Pleasures
10. Soul Structure
    Higher Power
11. Obituary
    Obituary
12. Heatwave
    Trapped Under Ice
13. Trumpeting Ecstasy
    Full of Hell
14. Kingdoms Disdained
    Morbid Angel
15. Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume
    Integrity
16. Dead Cross
    Dead Cross
17. The Grand Annihilation
    Tombs
18. Blood Offerings
    Necrot
19. Wick
    Royal Thunder
20. Red
    Scour

Matt Zoller Seitz: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Leftovers
3. Better Things
4. The Get Down
5. BoJack Horseman
6. The Deuce
7. The Young Pope
8. Samurai Jack
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
10. The Carmichael Show

Megan O’Grady: 10 Best Books of 2017, as published by Vogue

• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• What We Lose
  Zinzi Clemmons
• Go, Went, Gone
  Jenny Erpenbeck
• The Dawn Watch

  Joseph Conrad in a Global World
  Maya Jasanoff
• The Burning Girl
  Claire Messud
• The Rules Do Not Apply
  Ariel Levy
• The Idiot
  Elif Batuman
• Conversations with Friends
  Sally Rooney
• The Answers
  Catherine Lacey

David Edelstein: 10 Best Movies of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
2. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
6. Marjorie Prime
   Michael Almereyda
7. Nowhere to Hide
   Zaradasht Ahmed
8. Valerian
   Luc Besson
9. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
   Robin Campillo
10. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2017

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• Hourglass

  Time, Memory, Marriage
  Dani Shapiro
• On Tyranny

  Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  Timothy Snyder
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• World Without Mind

  The Existential Threat of Big Tech
  Franklin Foer
• Surpassing Certainty

  What My Twenties Taught Me
  Janet Mock
• Tell Me How It Ends

  An Essay in 40 Questions
  Valeria Luiselli

Kelly Lawler: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by USA Today

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

1. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2. The Good Place
3. Big Little Lies
4. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
5. Insecure
6. BoJack Horseman
7. One Day at a Time
8. The Handmaid’s Tale
9. Jane the Virgin
10. Game of Thrones

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2017

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

1. Paradiso
   Chino Amobi
2. Peasant
   Richard Dawson
3. Tommy
   Klein
4. Black Origami
   Jlin
5. The Kid
   Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
6. Pariah
   Jana Rush
7. Simultonality
   Joshua Abrams
8. Lack
   Pan Daijing
9. Fly or Die
   Jaimie Branch
10. Reaching For Indigo
    Circuit Des Yeux
11. AZD
    Actress
12. Ahwar
    Nadah El Shazly
13. async
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
14. Hand In Hand
    Felicia Atkinson
15. Bill Orcutt
    Bill Orcutt
16. Irreversible Entanglements
    Irreversible Entanglements
17. For Organ and Brass
    Ellen Arkbro
18. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
19. All the Way
    Diamanda Galás
20. Fantasii
    Mhysa
21. Children of Alice
    Children Of Alice
22. #LP4080
    Strange U
23. Voice Hardcore
    Phew
24. Concrete Desert
    The Bug & Earth
25. Gallarais
    Áine O’Dwyer
26. Halo
    Juana Molina
27. Sab Se Purani Bab
    SAICOBAB
28. No Luscious Life
    Golden Teacher
29. Terry Riley in C
    Brooklyn Raga Massive
30. Sacred Horror in Design
    Sote
31. Dust
    Laurel Halo
32. All My Circles Run
    Sarah Davachi
33. Immediate Landscapes
    Akio Suzuki & John Butcher
34. Terminal
    Circle
35. Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
    Nicole Mitchell
36. Patterns of Consciousness
    Caterina Barbieri
37. SHELL
    SADAF
38. Mnestic Pressure
    Lee Gamble
39. The Gag File
    Aaron Dilloway
40. Rembo
    Karen Gwyer
41. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
42. Once and Future Band
    Once and Future Band
43. Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
    Gnod
44. Pancrace
    Pancrace
45. Black Ken
    Lil B
46. Screen Memories
    John Maus
47. Bells For the South Side
    Roscoe Mitchell
48. The Garden
    Carla dal Forno
49. Colours of the Night
    Maalem Mahmoud Gania
50. Leaper
    Gosheven

Sight & Sound Poll: Top 26 Films of 2017 (a poll of 188 critics and curators published by Sight & Sound Magazine)

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

1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
3. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
4. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
5. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
6. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
7. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Loveless
   Andrey Zvyagintsev
9. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
9. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
11. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
12. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd
12. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
12. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
15. God’s Own Country
    Francis Lee
16. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
16. The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro
16. Strong Island
    Yance Ford
19. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
19. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
19. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
19. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
19. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
19. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
25. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
25. Silence
    Martin Scorsese

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Miriam Bale: Top 10 Films of 2017
• Sight & Sound Poll: Nicole Brenez: Favorite Films of 2017

Michael Sicinski: Top 25 Films of 2017 (limited to commercial releases)

[see also 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023 • The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022 • The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the 2010s • Top 50 Films of 2018 • Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018 • Top 10 Films of 2016 • Top 12 Films of 2014 • Top 10 Films of 2013 • Top 12 Films of 2012]

1. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
2. Staying Vertical
   Alain Guiraudie
3. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
4. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
5. Wormwood
   Errol Morris
6. Strong Island
   Yance Ford
7. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
   Noah Baumbach
8. Félicité
   Alain Gomis
9. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
10. Mimosas
    Oliver Laxe
11. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
12. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
13. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
14. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    S. Craig Zahler
15. Jane
    Brett Morgen
16. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
17. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
18. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
19. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
20. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
21. Ma
    Celia Rowlson-Hall
22. All This Panic
    Jenny Gage
23. Son of Joseph
    Eugène Green
24. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
25. Lipstick Under My Burkha
    Alankrita Shrivastava

The A.V. Club: 24 Favorite Books of 2017

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2015]

• What We Lose
  Zinzi Clemmons
• The Book of Dust

  La Belle Sauvage (Volume 1)
  Philip Pullman
• The Answers
  Catherine Lacey
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• The Mother of All Questions
  Rebecca Solnit
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Homesick for Another World
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Theft by Finding

  Diaries (1977-2002)
  David Sedaris
• A Separation
  Katie Kitamura
• 21st-Century Yokel
  Tom Cox
• Idaho
  Emily Ruskovich
• Imaginary Cities

  A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
  Darran Anderson
• The Unwomanly Face of War

  An Oral History of Women in World War II
  Svetlana Alexievich
• Paperbacks from Hell

  The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
  Grady Hendrix
• Word by Word

  The Secret Life of Dictionaries
  Kory Stamper
• Strange the Dreamer
  Laini Taylor
• Out in the Open
  Jesús Carrasco
• Sour Heart
  Jenny Zhang
• The Last Days of Café Leila
  Donia Bijan
• Vacationland

  True Stories from Painful Beaches
  John Hodgman
• Flâneuse

  Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
  Lauren Elkin
• Why I Am Not A Feminist

  A Feminist Manifesto
  Jessa Crispin
• 300 Arguments
  Sarah Manguso
• Turtles All the Way Down
  John Green