Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019, in no order

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2012]

Fiction

• The Complete Gary Lutz
  Gary Lutz
• King of Joy
  Richard Chiem
• The Devils
  New Juche
• Trump Sky Alpha
  Mark Doten
• The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter
  Rosmarie Waldrop
• This Brutal House
  Niven Govinden
• Juliet the Maniac
  Juliet Escoria
• Morelia
  Renee Gladman
• Song for the Unraveling of the World
  Brian Evenson
• The Silk Road
  Kathryn Davis
• Circus

  or, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes
  Wayne Koestenbaum
• Rag
  Maryse Meijer
• Selected Stories
  Troy James Weaver
• Experimental Men
  M. Kitchell
• The Maze of Transparencies
  Karen An-hwei Lee
• The Book of X
  Sarah Rose Etter
• Between Appear And Disappear
  Doug Rice
• Baudelaire Fractal
  Lisa Robertson
• Xerox Over Manhattan
  Shane Jesse Christmass
• Drain Songs

  Stories and a Novella
  Grant Maierhofer
• We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
  Isabel Waidner
• Haunted Girlfriend
  James Nulick
• Vincent and Alice and Alice
  Shane Jones
• Little Hollywood
  Jinnwoo
• Harlem Smoke
  James Champagne
• Soft Fruit in the Sun
  Oliver Zarandi
• Inside the Castle
  Josiah Morgan
• Shock Test…A Night of Truth: Bill Hicks & Timothy McVeigh Meet at Waco w/ Guest Lecturers: William Cooper & Ted Kaczynski
  Sean Kilpatrick
• Mnemic Symbols
  Andrew Hodgson
• The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories
  Sam Pink
• Mac's Problem
  Enrique Vila-Matas
• Angel House
  David Leo Rice
• The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories
  Raymond Roussel

Nonfiction

• Tosh

  Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
  Tosh Berman
• Beautiful Aliens

  A Steve Abbott Reader
  Steve Abbott
• How I Became One of the Invisible
  David Rattray
• Vile Days

  The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988
  Gary Indiana
• A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself
  Will Alexander
• Me & Other Writing
  Marguerite Duras
• Mr. Know-It-All

  The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
  John Waters
• Camera
  Marcelline Delbecq
• 1979 Songbook
  Byron Coley & Joanne Roberston
• Bad Writing
  Travis Jeppesen
• Essays One
  Lydia Davis
• Death Mort Tod

  A European Book of the Dead
  Steve Finbow & Karolina Urbaniak
• Synthetic Cinema

  The 21st-Century Movie Machine
  Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Animal
  Dorothea Lasky
• The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat
  Michel Leiris
• A Body in the O

  Performances and Stories
  Tim Miller
• Foucault in California

  [A True Story―Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]
  Simeon Wade
• Inflamed Invisible

  Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976–2018
  David Toop