Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: 52 Favorite Books of 2016, in no order

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Fiction

• Suite for Barbara Loden
  Nathalie Léger
• Dodge Rose
  Jack Cox
• Ninety-Nine Stories of God
  Joy Williams
• Transitory
  Tobias Carroll
• Patricide
  D. Foy
• Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction)
  Thalia Field
• The Orchid Stories (1973)
  Kenward Elmslie
• A Bestiary
  Lily Hoang
• The Knack of Doing
  Jeremy M. Davies
• Flamingos
  Grant Maierhofer
• Dreamlives of Debris
  Lance Olsen
• In Their Arms
  Thomas Moore
• The Map of the System of Human Knowledge
  James Tadd Adcox
• Novi Sad
  Jeff Jackson
• Thank You
  Zachary German
• A Collapse of Horses
  Brian Evenson
• I Hate the Internet
  Jarett Kobek
• Soft Split
  Szilvia Molnar
• Falter Kingdom
  Michael J. Seidlinger
• Tiny Fish that Only Want to Kiss
  Gary Indiana
• Margaret the First
  Danielle Dutton
• Weed Monks
  Chris Dankland
• Black Lavender Milk
  Black Lavender Milk
• The Sleep Garden
  Jim Krusoe
• You With Your Memory Are Dead
  Gary J. Shipley
• Marigold
  Troy James Weaver
• Abahn Sabana David
  Marguerite Duras
• The In-Betweens
  Matthew Simmons
• Sex and Death
  Ben Tanzer
• Don’t Leave Me
  Stig Sæterbakken
• WAVES
  Lucy K Shaw
• A Tree or a Person or a Wall
  Matt Bell

Nonfiction

• Communal Nude

  Collected Essays
  Robert Glück
• Bresson on Bresson

  Interviews, 1943-1983
  Robert Bresson
• I/O

  A Memoir
  Brian Oliu
• AUTOMANIAS
  Sara Tuss Erick
• So Sad Today

  Personal Essays
  Melissa Broder
• Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
  Robert Walser
• Bandit

  A Daughter’s Memoir
  Molly Brodak
• The Sky Isn’t Blue
  Janice Lee
• Super Mario Bros. 3
  Alyse Knorr
• The Narco-Imaginary

  Essays Under the Influence
  Ramsey Scott
• The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories
  Lynne Tillman
• Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970
  David Toop
• My Damage

  The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor
  Keith Morris and Jim Ruland
• hatefuck the reader
  Penny Goring
• WASTELAND
  New Juche
• Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything
  Andrew Durbin, Dodie Bellamy, Cecilia Corrigan, Amy De’Ath, Lynne Tillman, and Jackie Wang
• A Barbarian in Asia
  Henri Michaux
• Loud Idiots
  Sarah Jean Alexander
• An Individual Note Of Music, Sound And Electronics
  Daphne Oram
• Shock and Awe

  Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
  Simon Reynolds