Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2020, in no order

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2012]

Fiction

• Castle Faggot
  Derek McCormack
• Alice Knott
  Blake Butler
• Come Down to Us
  Mark Gluth
• Freedom & Prostitution
  Cassandra Troyan
• The Complete Gary Lutz
  Gary Lutz
• The White Dress
  Nathalie Léger
• The Seventh Mansion
  Maryse Meijer
• All of Your Most Private Places
  Meghan Lamb
• Textiloma

  or, The Postmodern Epimetheus
  anon I'm us
• Sleepovers
  Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
• Negative Space
  B.R. Yeager
• Verge
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• Pisti, 80, rue de Belleville
  Estelle Hoy
• Margery Kempe
  Robert Glück
• A Task
  Ken Baumann
• The Ministry of Guidance
  Golnoosh Nour
• Spring Rain, Summer Heat
  Josh Peterson
• The Dregs Trilogy
  Chris Kelso
• Fucked Up
  Damien Ark
• The Magician
  Christopher Zeischegg
• Loudermilk

  Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
  Lucy Ives
• Hey Boy
  A.W.W. Bremont
• Notes for Mid-Birth
  Karolina Zapal
• Alone
  Thomas Moore
• Probably It Will Not Be Okay
  Brekan Blakeslee
• An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country
  Elisa Taber
• The Suspended Vocation
  Pierre Klossowski
• Seagulls
  Edwin Stevens
• Invisibility

  A Manifesto
  Audrey Szasz
• Sea-Witch
  Never Angeline Nørth
• Vantablack
  Lee Rourke
• To Remain Nameless
  Brad Fox
• Feebleminded
  Ariana Harwicz
• Wolf
  Douglas A. Martin
• If You Have Ghosts
  Douglas Payne
• The Wingspan of Severed Hands
  Joanna Koch
• Skyland
  Andrew Durbin
• Dreams of Being
  Michael J. Seidlinger

Nonfiction

• Bruce Boone Dismembered

  Poems, Stories, and Essays
  Bruce Boone
• Poetry Against All

  A Diary
  Johannes Göransson
• Beautiful Aliens

  A Steve Abbott Reader
  Steve Abbott
• Super 8

  An Illustrated History
  Danny Plotnick
• Reverse Cowgirl
  McKenzie Wark
• Radical Attention
  Julia Bell
• Yours Presently

  The Selected Letters of John Wieners
  John Wieners
• Rated RX

  Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan
  Yetta Howard
• Witches’ Sabbath
  Maurice Sachs
• The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words

  A Madeline Gins Reader
  Madeline Gins
• To Build a House That Never Ceased

  Writings, Interviews, and Letters on Art
  Jared Pappas-Kelley
• Sequelland

  A Story of Dreams and Screams
  Jay Slayton-Joslin
• Afterimages
  Laura Mulvey
• Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Minds
  Jeanne Gerrity & Anthony Huberman
• 1979 Songbook
  Byron Coley & Joanne Robertson
• Figure It Out
  Wayne Koestenbaum
• Breakout

  Pilgrim in the Microworld
  David Sudnow
• Interiors for ?
  Zak Ferguson
• The Wild Kindness

  A Psilocybin Odyssey
  Bett Williams
• My Meteorite
  Harry Dodge
• Stratagem of the Corpse

  Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra
  Gary J. Shipley
• Niche

  A Memoir in Pastiche
  Momus
• Riding with the Ghost
  Justin Taylor
• Because Horror
  Johnny Ray Huston and Bradford Nordeen
• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

  The Complete Facsimile
  Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein
• Succubations & Incubations

  Selected Letters of Antonin Artaud (1945-1947)
  Antonin Artaud