Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2023, in no order

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

Fiction

• About Ed
  Robert Glück
• Deliver Me
  Elle Nash
• The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker
  Jack Skelley
• So Beautiful and Elastic
  Gary J. Shipley
• MyLifeandMyLife
  Melinda Mátyus
• Witch Hunt & Black Cloud

  New & Collected Works
  Juliet Escoria
• Mushroom Dwellers

  Zak Ferguson vs Kenji Siratori
  Zak Ferguson & Kenji Siratori
• Salmon
  Sebastian Castillo
• The Longest Summer
  Alexandrine Ogundimu
• Your Dreams
  Thomas Moore
• Tantrums
  Sean Kilpatrick
• Love Poems / Smallness Studies
  Ava Hofmann
• How I Killed the Universal Man
  Thomas Kendall
• If I Close My Eyes
  Ben Fama
• Lambda
  David Musgrave
• Leech
  Jake Reber
• Woman With Hat
  Lucy K Shaw
• 1/ 4 i am ĐNA
  in8 iĐ
• Burn You the Fuck Alive
  B.R. Yeager
• Come October
  Damien Ark
• New Millennium Boyz
  Alex Kazemi
• [NSFW]
  David Scott Hay
• Counterillumination
  Audrey Szasz
• Quarry
  Jane White
• Ebb
  Grant Maierhofer
• The Guest Lecture
  Martin Riker
• I Hear You're Rich
  Diane Williams
• POLO
  Jinnwoo
• Bedlam
  Charlene Elsby
• Settlers Landing
  Travis Jeppesen
• Roundabout
  Will Mountain Cox
• One or Several Deserts
  Carter St. Hogan
• Tell Me I'm an Artist
  Chelsea Martin
• Always Crashing in the Same Car
  Lance Olsen
• Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane
  Parker Young
• Meth - DTF
  Shane Jesse Christmass
• Thick City
  Katie Jean Shinkle
• Art School Orgy
  Stewart Home
• Higher Genius

  Magickal Tales of New York City
  Kyler James
• Earth Angel
  Madeline Cash
• Fantastic Fictions
  Sam Pink
• Hairs
  Ira Rat

Nonfiction

• The Illiterate
  Ágota Kristóf
• Hollis Frampton

  Navigating the Infinite Cinema
  Michael Zryd
• Molly
  Blake Butler
• Unwords
  Andrew Gallix
• A Walk Across Dirty Water

  and Straight Into Murderer's Row
  Eugene S. Robinson
• Heat Death
  New Juche
• Sonic Life

  A Memoir
  Thurston Moore
• Craig Baldwin

  Avant to Live!
  Brett Kashmere & Steve Polta
• Bookworm

  Conversations With Michael Silverblatt
  Michael Silverblatt
• High Bias

  The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
  Marc Masters
• I Could Not Believe It

  The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear
  Sean DeLear
• Enigma Strategy

  The Institute for Erotic Vertigo
  M Kitchell, Pierre Abidi, and Emmanuelle X
• Eat Your Mind

  The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
  Jason McBride
• The Coming Mental Range
  Will Alexander
• Ivor Cutler

  A Life Outside the Sitting Room
  Bruce Lindsay
• Stalking America
  Jared Pappas-Kelley
• Fassbinder

  Thousands of Mirrors
  Ian Penman
• The Country of the Blind

  A Memoir at the End of Sight
  Andrew Leland
• The Limit of the Useful
  Georges Bataille
• Telling the Truth As It Comes Up

  Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
  Alice Notley
• Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

  A Memoir
  Sly Stone
• Responses to "Forbidden Colors" (1988) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres
  various authors