Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
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2019 Books
Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019
15 December 2019
Dennis Cooper
:
Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019
, in no order
[see also
2018
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2016
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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