Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Highlights

Movies
Get Out - Jordan Peele

Top 10 Movies of 2017 Us Weekly: Mara Reinstein

TV Shows
Twin Peaks: The Return - David Lynch

20 Best TV Shows of 2017 Rolling Stone: Rob Sheffield

Music
Melodrama - Lorde

26 Best Albums of 2017 Entertainment Weekly

TV Shows

10 Best TV Shows of 2017 The Ringer: Alison Herman

Books

100 Notable Books of 2017 New York Times

Music

Top 100 Albums of 2017 Quietus

Music
DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar

25 Best Albums of 2017 Slant

Books

31 Best Fiction Books of 2017 Guardian

TV Shows

16 Best TV Shows of 2017 Village Voice: Lara Zarum

Movies
The Florida Project - Sean Baker

21 Best Movies of 2017 New York Times: A.O. Scott

Movies
Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan

40 Best Movies of 2017 New York Times: Manohla Dargis

Music
Melodrama - Lorde

50 Best Albums of 2017 Stereogum

Music
All American Made - Margo Price

Top 25 Albums of 2017 American Songwriter

Books
We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates

11 Favorite Books of 2017 O Magazine

Music
Arca - Arca

The Top 100 Albums of 2017 Crack Magazine

Movies

Top Ten Films of 2017 Cahiers du Cinéma

Music
Forever - Code Orange

20 Best Albums of 2017 Revolver

TV Shows

10 Best TV Shows of 2017 Vulture: Matt Zoller Seitz

Books

10 Best Books of 2017 Vogue: Megan O’Grady

Movies
The Florida Project - Sean Baker

10 Best Movies of 2017 Vulture: David Edelstein

Books
Hourglass - Dani Shapiro

Best Nonfiction of 2017 Powell's Books

TV Shows
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

10 Best TV Shows of 2017 USA Today: Kelly Lawler

Music
Paradiso - Chino Amobi

Top 50 Albums of 2017 The Wire

Movies
Get Out - Jordan Peele

Top 26 Films of 2017 Sight & Sound Poll

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