Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2021, in no order

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2012]

Fiction (in no order)

• Harrow
  Joy Williams
• The Worm
  New Juche
• Failure to Thrive
  Meghan Lamb
• Imagine a Death
  Janice Lee
• Little Joy
  Cecilia Pavón
• Search History
  Eugene Lim
• Forever
  Thomas Moore
• Worsted
  Garielle Lutz
• Skin Elegies
  Lance Olsen
• Dennis Wilson & Charlie Manson
  Jack Skelley
• Bonding
  Maggie Siebert
• The Boiled in Between
  Helen Marten
• Troisième Vague
  Lucy K Shaw
• My Dead Book
  Nate Lippens
• Dox
  Alex Beaumais
• Drifter

  Stories
  David Leo Rice
• Paresis
  Isabelle Nicou
• Genesis 0
  Isabelle Nicou
• Residue
  MM/DD/2020
• Nudes
  Elle Nash
• Leave Society
  Tao Lin
• Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
  Megan Milks
• Bad Eminence
  James Greer
• Bernard and Pat
  Blair James
• Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede
  Mike Corrao
• Honey Mine

  Collected Stories
  Camille Roy
• The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
  Brian Evenson
• The Sex Shops of Sherman Oaks
  SJXSJC with Steven Purtill
• 100 Boyfriends
  Brontez Purnell
• My Week Without Gerard
  Ivan Boris
• Desperate
  Alexandrine Ogundimu
• Visions
  Troy James Weaver
• Rogomelec
  Leonor Fini
• Philosophy of the Sky
  Evan Isodine
• The Cheerful Scapegoat
  Wayne Koestenbaum
• You Will Love What You Have Killed
  Kevin Lambert
• Passages
  Ann Quin
• The History of America in My Lifetime
  Brooks Sterritt
• Tears of a Komsomol Girl
  Audrey Szasz
• Diary of a Film
  Niven Govinden
• Jacket Weather
  Mike DeCapite
• The System Compendium
  Zak Ferguson
• I Hate You, Please Read Me
  Joshua Dalton
• Looking for a Kiss
  Richard Cabut

Nonfiction (in no order)

• Doomed and Famous

  Selected Obituaries
  Adrian Dannatt
• The One on Earth

  Selected Works of Mark Baumer
  Mark Baumer
• The Abyss Is the Foundation of the Possible
  M Kitchell
• New York Diary by Tim Dlugos
  David Trinidad (editor)
• Film Talks

  15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema
  Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne (editors)
• The Hard Crowd

  Essays 2000-2020
  Rachel Kushner
• The Melancholy Lens

  Loss and Mourning in American Avant-Garde Cinema
  Tony Pipolo
• Bee Reaved
  Dodie Bellamy
• Tori Amos Bootleg Webring
  Megan Milks
• Love, Death & Photosynthesis
  Bela Koe-Krompecher
• Permanent Damage

  Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl
  Mercy Fontenot
• Interrogating the Abyss
  Chris Kelso
• The Foghorn’s Lament

  The Disappearing Music of the Coast
  Jennifer Lucy Allan
• Runaways

  A Writer's Dilemma
  Michael J. Seidlinger
• Let the Record Show

  A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
  Sarah Schulman
• She's at the Controls

  Sound Engineering, Production & Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century
  Helen Reddington
• Lionel Maunz Peter Sotos
  Lionel Maunz and Peter Sotos
• Godard and Sound

  Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard
  Albertine Fox