Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Atlantic: David Sims: The 10 Best Movies of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
The Forty-Five: The Best Albums of 2024
more...
2016 Books
Dennis Cooper: 52 Favorite Books of 2016
01 January 2017
Dennis Cooper
:
52 Favorite Books of 2016
(“in no order”)
[see also
2019
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2018
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2012
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Fiction
Suite for Barbara Loden
Nathalie Leger
Dodge Rose
Jack Cox
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Joy Williams
Transitory
Tobias Carroll
Patricide
D. Foy
Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction)
Thalia Field
The Orchid Stories
Kenward Elmslie
A Bestiary
Lily Hoang
The Knack of Doing
Jeremy M. Davies
Flamingos
Grant Maierhofer
Dreamlives of Debris
Lance Olsen
In Their Arms
Thomas Moore
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge
James Tadd Adcox
Novi Sad
Jeff Jackson
Thank You
Zachary German
A Collapse of Horses
Brian Evenson
I Hate the Internet
Jarett Kobek
Soft Split
Szilvia Molnar
Falter Kingdom
Michael J. Seidlinger
Tiny Fish that Only Want to Kiss
Gary Indiana
Margaret the First
Danielle Dutton
Weed Monks
Chris Dankland
Black Lavender Milk
Black Lavender Milk
The Sleep Garden
Jim Krusoe
You With Your Memory Are Dead
Gary J Shipley
Marigold
Troy James Weaver
Abahn Sabana David
Marguerite Duras
The In-Betweens
Matthew Simmons
Sex and Death
Ben Tanzer
Don’t Leave Me
Stig Sæterbakken
WAVES
Lucy K Shaw
A Tree or a Person or a Wall
Matt Bell
Nonfiction
Communal Nude
Collected Essays
Robert Glück
Bresson on Bresson
Interviews, 1943-1983
Robert Bresson
I/O
A Memoir
Brian Oliu
AUTOMANIAS
Sara Tuss Erick
So Sad Today
Personal Essays
Melissa Broder
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
Robert Walser
Bandit
A Daughter’s Memoir
Molly Brodak
The Sky Isn’t Blue
Janice Lee
Super Mario Bros. 3
Alyse Knorr
The Narco-Imaginary
Essays Under the Influence
Ramsey Scott
The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories
Lynne Tillman
Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970
David Toop
My Damage
The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor
Keith Morris and Jim Ruland
hatefuck the reader
Penny Goring
WASTELAND
New Juche
Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything
Andrew Durbin, Dodie Bellamy, Cecilia Corrigan, Amy De’Ath, Lynne Tillman, and Jackie Wang
A Barbarian in Asia
Henri Michaux
Loud Idiots
Sarah Jean Alexander
An Individual Note Of Music, Sound And Electronics
Daphne Oram
Shock and Awe
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
Simon Reynolds