Year-End Lists

Jim DeRogatis: The Best Albums of 2017, as aired on Sound Opinions

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1. Feel Your Feelings Fool!
   The Regrettes
2. Cost of Living
   Downtown Boys
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. Nothing Feels Natural
   Priests
5. Rips
   Rips
6. Mental Illness
   Aimee Mann
7. The Autobiography
   Vic Mensa
8. In Between
   The Feelies
9. Silver / Lead
   Wire
10. Lotta Sea Lice
    Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile

Chicago Public Library: 10 Best Books of 2017

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• Electric Arches
  Eve L. Ewing
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Hunger

  A Memoir of (My) Body
  Roxane Gay
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Little Fires Everywhere
  Celeste Ng
• Manhattan Beach
  Jennifer Egan
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
  Emil Ferris
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward

Eric Kohn: 17 Best Movies of 2017, as published by IndieWire

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1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. Foxtrot
   Samuel Maoz
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. A Fantastic Woman
   Sebastián Lelio
5. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
7. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
8. The Ornithologist
   João Pedro Rodrigues
9. Menashe
   Joshua Z Weinstein
10. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
11. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
12. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
13. Rat Film
    Theo Anthony
14. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
15. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
16. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
17. Kedi
    Ceyda Torun

The Los Angeles Times: 36 Best Books of 2017

Fiction

• The Power
  Naomi Alderman
• Ill Will
  Dan Chaon
• Shadowbahn
  Steve Erickson
• So Much Blue
  Percival Everett
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• A Legacy of Spies
  John le Carré
• Ka

  Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
  John Crowley
• Dinner at the Center of the Earth
  Nathan Englander
• The Leavers
  Lisa Ko
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• The Burning Girl
  Claire Messud
• A Book of American Martyrs
  Joyce Carol Oates
• Songy Of Paradise
  Gary Panter
• Mrs. Fletcher
  Tom Perrotta
• Wonder Valley
  Ivy Pochoda
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Home Fire
  Kamila Shamsie
• Borne
  Jeff VanderMeer
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction

• Coach Wooden and Me

  Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  Sherman Alexie
• Wrestling With His Angel

  The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856
  Sidney Blumenthal
• What Happened
  Hillary Rodham Clinton
• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• World Without Mind

  The Existential Threat of Big Tech
  Franklin Foer
• The Great Quake

  How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
  Henry Fountain
• High Noon

  The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
  Glenn Frankel
• Shirley Jackson

  A Rather Haunted Life
  Ruth Franklin
• Hunger

  A Memoir of (My) Body
  Roxane Gay
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
  Jed Perl
• Jonathan Swift

  The Reluctant Rebel
  John Stubbs
• The Blood of Emmett Till
  Timothy B. Tyson
• Bunk

  The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
  Kevin Young
• Why Poetry
  Matthew Zapruder

James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by Artforum

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1. The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.
   exhibition at Fondazione Prada
2. Jean Vigo retrospective at Il Cinema Ritrovato
3. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
4. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
5. The Nothing Factory
   Pedro Pinho
6. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
7. Closeness
   Kantemir Balagov
8. 12 Days
   Raymond Depardon
9. Caniba
   Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
10. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman

J Hoberman: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by Artforum

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1. Drunk (aka Drink)
   Andy Warhol
2. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
3. Streetscapes [Dialogue]
   Heinz Emigholz
4. The Vietnam War
   Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
7. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
   Joseph Cedar
8. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
9. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
   Alexandra Dean
10. An Ecstatic Experience
    Ja’Tovia Gary

Erika Balsom: 13 Best Films of 2017, as published by Artforum

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1. Tonsler Park
   Kevin Jerome Everson
2. By the Time It Gets Dark
   Anocha Suwichakornpong
3. The Human Surge
   Eduardo Williams
4. Freak Orlando
   Ulrike Ottinger
4. Chamisso’s Shadow
   Ulrike Ottinger
4. Hallucinations
   Ben Russell
5. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
6. Also Known as Jihadi
   Eric Baudelaire
7. Eight Hours are Not a Day
   Rainer Werner Fassbinder
7. The Nothing Factory
   Pedro Pinho
8. El mar la mar
   Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki
9. Sunstone
   Filipa César and Louis Henderson
10. Life Imitation
    Chen Zhou

Amy Taubin: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by Artforum

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1. Spoor
   Agnieszka Holland
2. Quest
   Jonathan Olshefski
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Top of the Lake: China Girl
   Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman
5. Beatriz at Dinner
   Miguel Arteta
6. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
7. Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
   Tyler Hubby
8. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
9. En el Séptimo Día
   Jim McKay
10. Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8
    David Lynch

John Waters: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by Artforum

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1. Baby Driver
   Edgar Wright
2. I, Olga Hepnarová
   Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda
3. The Strange Ones
   Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff
4. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
5. Wonderstruck
   Todd Haynes
6. Graduation
   Cristian Mungiu
7. The Wizard of Lies
   Barry Levinson
8. Lady Macbeth
   William Oldroyd
9. Wonder Wheel
   Woody Allen
10. Tom of Finland
    Dome Karukoski

The New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2017

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Fiction

• Autumn
  Ali Smith
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• The Power
  Naomi Alderman
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction

• The Evolution of Beauty

  How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us
  Richard O. Prum
• Grant
  Ron Chernow
• Locking Up Our Own

  Crime and Punishment in Black America
  James Forman Jr.
• Prairie Fires

  The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Caroline Fraser
• Priestdaddy
  Patricia Lockwood