Year-End Lists

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

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TV Shows

10 Best TV Shows of 2017 New York Times: James Poniewozik

Music
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Top 10 Albums of 2017 Time: Raisa Bruner

Movies
BPM (Beats Per Minute) - Robin Campillo

10 Best Films of 2017 Vanity Fair: Richard Lawson

Books
American War - Omar El Akkad

Best Fiction of 2017 Powell's Books

Music
american dream - LCD Soundsystem

Top 10 Albums of 2017 Northern Transmissions

Movies
Call Me by Your Name - Luca Guadagnino

25 Best Films of 2017 David Ehrlich

Music

62 Favorite Albums of 2017 Gorilla vs. Bear

Movies
Personal Shopper - Olivier Assayas

12 Films That Stayed with Us cléo

Movies
The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro

12 Best Films of 2017 IndieWire: Anne Thompson

Music
Feel Your Feelings Fool! - The Regrettes

The Best Albums of 2017 Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis

Books

10 Best Books of 2017 Chicago Public Library

Movies
Get Out - Jordan Peele

17 Best Movies of 2017 IndieWire: Eric Kohn

Books

36 Best Books of 2017 Los Angeles Times

Movies
The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied. - exhibition at Fondazione Prada

10 Best Films of 2017 Artforum: James Quandt

Movies
Drunk (aka Drink) - Andy Warhol

10 Best Films of 2017 Artforum: J Hoberman

Movies
Tonsler Park - Kevin Jerome Everson

13 Best Films of 2017 Artforum: Erika Balsom

Movies
Spoor - Agnieszka Holland

10 Best Films of 2017 Artforum: Amy Taubin

Movies
Baby Driver - Edgar Wright

10 Best Films of 2017 Artforum: John Waters

Books

10 Best Books of 2017 New York Times

Music
DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar

Top 50 Albums of 2017 The Skinny

TV Shows

25 Best TV Shows of 2017 Paste

TV Shows
Better Things

31 Best TV Shows of 2017 Highlark

Music
DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar

51 Best Albums of 2017 Rolling Stone

Music

50 Best Albums of 2017 Paste

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