Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2017, in no order

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2012]

Fiction

• Houses of Ravicka
  Renee Gladman
• Assisted Living
  Gary Lutz
• A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be
  Quintan Ana Wikswo
• As I Stand Living
  Christopher Higgs
• MacArthur Park
  Andrew Durbin
• How to Keep You Alive
  Ella Longpre
• When He Sprang From His Bed, Staggered Backward, And Fell Dead, We Clung Together With Faint Hearts, And Mutely Questioned Each Other
  Christopher Kang
• Warewolff!
  Gary J. Shipley
• Silk Flowers
  Meghan Lamb
• The Farmacist
  Ashley Farmer
• The Sarah Book
  Scott McClanahan
• Dear Cyborgs
  Eugene Lim
• The Disintegrations
  Alistair McCartney
• A Raft Manifest
  Rem+Rom
• The Book of Joan
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• The Grip of It
  Jac Jemc
• Modern Love
  Constance DeJong
• Rats Nest
  Mat Laporte
• The Republic of Exit 43

  Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump
  Jennifer Scappettone
• Gag
  Grant Maierhofer
• Sir William Forsythe’s Freebase Nuptials

  A Screenplay
  Sean Kilpatrick
• Late Arcade
  Nathaniel Mackey
• The Babysitter at Rest
  Jen George
• Human Trees
  Matthew Revert
• Mountainhead
  New Juche
• Person/a
  Elizabeth Ellen
• Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight
  Mitch Sisskind
• Captagon
  Philip Best
• The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
  Leonora Carrington
• You Private Person
  Richard Chiem
• Motor Maids across the Continent
  Ron Padgett
• The Others
  Matthew Rohrer
• Genevieves
  Henry Hoke
• Odd Jobs
  Tony Duvert
• Shrapnel Apartments
  Chris Kelso
• Writers Who Love Too Much
  Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian (editors)

Nonfiction

• Afterglow

  (a dog memoir)
  Eileen Myles
• Learning What Love Means
  Mathieu Lindon
• Autobiography Without Words
  Peter Cherches
• Book of Mutter
  Kate Zambreno
• Bit by Bit

  How Video Games Transformed Our World
  Andrew Ervin
• Nights as Day, Days as Night
  Michel Leiris
• Mucus in My Pineal Gland
  Juliana Huxtable
• Punk Is Dead

  Modernity Killed Every Night
  Andrew Gallix & Richard Cabut (editors)
• Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves

  Bookmarked
  Michael J. Seidlinger
• The Misfit’s Manifesto
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• Audio Culture

  Readings in Modern Music
  Christoph Cox & Daniel Warner (editors)
• Everything Is Combustible

  Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist
  Richard Lloyd
• Playing the Third String

  Weeding in the Garden of Cinematic Delights
  David Ehrenstein
• Soft & Cuddly
  Jarett Kobek
• From Our Hearts to Yours

  New Narrative as Contemporary Practice
  Rob Halpern & Robin Tremblay-McGaw (editors)