Year-End Lists

Hanif Abdurraqib: 39 Favorite Albums Of 2017

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

1. Ctrl
   SZA
2. Peasant
   Richard Dawson
3. SweetSexySavage
   Kehlani
4. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
   Open Mike Eagle
5. Drunk
   Thundercat
6. Melodrama
   Lorde
7. Black Origami
   Jlin
8. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
9. Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
   2 Chainz
10. Cubafonía
    Daymé Arocena
11. Meaning of Life
    Kelly Clarkson
12. The Iceberg
    Oddisee
13. Nightmare Logic
    Power Trip
14. L.A. Witch
    L.A. Witch
15. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
16. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
17. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
18. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
19. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
20. Hiss Spun
    Chelsea Wolfe
21. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
22. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
23. Slowdive
    Slowdive
24. Harry Styles
    Harry Styles
25. Kid Kruschev
    Sleigh Bells
26. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
27. Brutalism
    Idles
28. Rap Album Two
    Jonwayne
29. Mirror Reaper
    Bell Witch
30. Rosecrans
    DJ Quik & Problem
31. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
32. About Time
    Sabrina Claudio
33. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
34. Narkopop
    Gas
35. Fin
    Syd
36. After Laughter
    Paramore
37. Culture
    Migos
38. No Mountains in Manhattan
    Wiki
39. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
    Big K.R.I.T.

Lloyd Schwartz: Favorite Poetry of 2017, as posted by WBUR’s The ARTery

• New Collected Poems
  Marianne Moore
• Half-Light

  Collected Poems 1965-2016
  Frank Bidart
• The Aeneid (translated by David Ferry)
  Virgil
• The Amoeba Game
  Tara Skurtu
• Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

  A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
  Kay Redfield Jamison

a dozen more poetry books, by writers with Boston connections

• Personal Science
  Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
• Advice from the Lights
  Stephen Burt
• Children with Enemies
  Stuart Dischell
• Not Elegy, but Eros
  Nausheen Eusuf
• Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country
  Rebecca Morgan Frank
• Fast
  Jorie Graham
• After Jubilee
  Brionne Janae
• A Dangling House
  Maeve Kinkead
• May All My Wounds Be Mortal
  Karen Locascio
• Said Not Said
  Fred Marchant
• Elizabeth Bishop

  A Miracle for Breakfast
  Megan Marshall
• Reaper
  Jill McDonough

Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2017, as published by Slate

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

• Capacity
  Big Thief
• Utopia
  Björk
• ken
  Destroyer
• Hey Mr Ferryman
  Mark Eitzel
• Audible Songs from Rockwood
  Fiver
• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• Melodrama
  Lorde
• american dream
  LCD Soundsystem
• 50 Song Memoir
  The Magnetic Fields
• Liberation Narratives
  Nicole Mitchell
• Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
  Nicole Mitchell
• Cuidado Madame
  Arto Lindsay
• BANGS
  Jason Moran
• A Crow Looked at Me
  Mount Eerie
• Goths
  The Mountain Goats
• Dark Matter
  Randy Newman
• Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
  Open Mike Eagle
• Wrangled
  Angaleena Presley
• All American Made
  Margo Price
• Residente
  Residente
• Aytche
  Joseph Shabason
• Any Other Way
  Jackie Shane
• The Kid
  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
• Big Fish Theory
  Vince Staples
• Anthology Resource Vol. I: △△
  Dean Hurley
• Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)
  Angelo Badalamenti
• Windswept
  Johnny Jewel
• Out in the Storm
  Waxahatchee

Harper’s Bazaar: Best Books of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Pachinko
   Min Jin Lee
2. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
   Gail Honeyman
3. Saints for All Occasions
   J. Courtney Sullivan
4. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
5. Anything Is Possible
   Elizabeth Strout
6. Little Fires Everywhere
   Celeste Ng
7. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
8. Hunger

   A Memoir of (My) Body
   Roxane Gay
9. What We Lose
   Zinzi Clemmons
10. A Separation
    Katie Kitamura
11. How to Murder Your Life
    Cat Marnell
12. Joni

    The Anthology
    Barney Hoskyns
13. Marlena
    Julie Buntin
14. South and West

    From a Notebook
    Joan Didion
15. The Golden House
    Salman Rushdie
16. My Life with Bob

    Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
    Pamela Paul
17. The Rules Do Not Apply
    Ariel Levy
18. Theft by Finding

    Diaries (1977-2002)
    David Sedaris
19. Debriefing

    Collected Stories
    Susan Sontag

Joanna Di Mattia: Favorite Films of 2017, as posted to Twitter and submitted to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll.

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. 20th Century Women
   Mike Mills
3. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
4. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
   Yorgos Lanthimos
7. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
8. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
9. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
10. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
11. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
12. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
13. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
14. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
15. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
16. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
17. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
18. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
19. Their Finest
    Lone Scherfig
20. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd

Honourable mentions (in alphabetical order by original-language title)

1. The Beguiled
   Sofia Coppola
2. Frantz
   François Ozon
3. God’s Own Country
   Francis Lee
4. Raw
   Julia Ducournau
5. The Party
   Sally Potter
6. A Fantastic Woman
   Sebastián Lelio

Alicia Malone: Top 50 Films of 2017, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2018]

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
6. Foxtrot
   Samuel Maoz
7. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
8. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
9. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
10. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
11. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
12. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
13. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
14. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
15. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
16. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
17. A Fantastic Woman
    Sebastián Lelio
18. The Post
    Steven Spielberg
19. I, Tonya
    Craig Gillespie
20. Flesh and Blood
    Mark Webber
21. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
22. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
23. Columbus
    Kogonada
24. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
25. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
26. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
27. Molly’s Game
    Aaron Sorkin
28. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
29. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
    Paul McGuigan
30. Happy End
    Michael Haneke
31. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee
32. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
33. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
34. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
35. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer
36. The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska
37. Darkest Hour
    Joe Wright
38. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
39. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd
40. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch
41. Step
    Amanda Lipitz
42. Menashe
    Joshua Z Weinstein
43. Wind River
    Taylor Sheridan
44. Oh Lucy!
    Atsuko Hirayanagi
45. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
46. Hounds of Love
    Ben Young
47. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
48. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
49. Lemon
    Janicza Bravo
50. Patti Cake$
    Geremy Jasper

gal-dem: The Five Best Books of 2017 by Women of Color

1. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
   Reni Eddo-Lodge
2. Pachinko
   Min Jin Lee
3. Your Silence Will Not Protect You
   Audre Lorde
4. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
5. Peluda
   Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Scott Feinberg: Top Ten Films of 2017 (as posted on Twitter)

1. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
2. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
3. Icarus
   Bryan Fogel
4. I, Tonya
   Craig Gillespie
5. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
   John Ridley
7. The Big Sick
   Michael Showalter
8. In the Fade
   Fatih Akin
9. Molly’s Game
   Aaron Sorkin
10. Spoor
    Agnieszka Holland

Peter Debruge: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by Variety

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

1. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. The Distinguished Citizen
   Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn
6. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
7. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
8. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
9. I, Tonya
   Craig Gillespie
10. Lost in Paris
    Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon

Other exceptional movies

• Brigsby Bear
  Dave McCary
• Contemporary Color
  Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Heal the Living
  Katell Quillévéré
• Lady Macbeth
  William Oldroyd
• Land of Mine
  Martin Zandvliet
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Raw
  Julia Ducournau
• Sweet Virginia
  Jamie M. Dagg

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2017, as aired on The Needle Drop

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

1. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
2. SATURATION II
   BROCKHAMPTON
3. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
4. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
   Big K.R.I.T.
5. Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
   Sun Kil Moon
6. Mouth Moods
   Neil Cicierega
7. Bravado
   Kirin J Callinan
8. Los Ángeles
   Rosalía
9. The Underside of Power
   Algiers
10. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
11. Thin Black Duke
    Oxbow
12. Forced Witness
    Alex Cameron
13. Forget
    Xiu Xiu
14. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
15. Neō Wax Bloom
    Iglooghost
16. Ctrl
    SZA
17. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
18. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
19. Peasant
    Richard Dawson
20. Orc
    Oh Sees
21. Goths
    The Mountain Goats
22. 4:44
    JAY-Z
23. Known Unknowns
    Billy Woods
24. Written at Night
    Uncommon Nasa
25. Caustic
    Primitive Man
26. Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
    Quelle Chris
27. GT Ultra
    Guerilla Toss
28. Flying Microtonal Banana
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
29. Uyai
    Ibibio Sound Machine
30. 1992
    Princess Nokia
31. Brutalism
    Idles
32. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
    Ariel Pink
33. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
34. Godfather
    Wiley
35. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
36. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
37. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
38. Forever
    Code Orange
39. Pleasure
    Feist
40. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
41. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
42. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
43. Reflections of a Floating World
    Elder
44. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
45. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
46. Process
    Sampha
47. Heartless
    Pallbearer
48. Wrong One to Fuck With
    Dying Fetus
49. Outrage! Is Now
    Death from Above
50. First Opus
    Sinjin Hawke