Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2022, in no order

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2012]

Fiction

• Love Me Tender
  Constance Debré
• Aannex
  Blake Butler
• Querelle of Roberval
  Kevin Lambert
• Purgatory
  Ian Townsend
• Generation Bloodbath
  Paul Curran
• Campfires of the Dead and the Living

  The Collected Stories of Peter Christopher
  Peter Christopher
• Third World Magicks
  Mike Kleine
• Thrust
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• Math Class
  Kelly Krumrie
• Bad Eminence
  James Greer
• Revenge of the Scapegoat
  Caren Beilin
• The Autodidacts
  Thomas Kendall
• Child’s Replay
  Adrian Bridget
• Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
  Cookie Mueller
• Zealous Immaculate
  Audrey Szasz
• Picture the Scene

  A Russell Walker Reader
  Russell Walker
• Summertime in the Emergency Room
  David Nutt
• Liarmouth

  A Feel-Bad Romance
  John Waters
• Sorcererer
  Jace Brittain
• And Then the Gray Heaven
  RE Katz
• Pathetic Literature
  Eileen Myles (editor)
• Paracelsus
  Kenji Siratori
• Work
  Richard Makin
• Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret

  Stories
  Tim Jones-Yelvington
• Lazy Eyes
  James Nulick
• Beside Myself
  Ashley Marie Farmer
• Gag Reflex
  Elle Nash
• Holy Bodies
  Clay AD
• Urban Gothic

  The Complete Stories
  Bruce Benderson
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  Josiah Morgan
• Agitation
  Alexandrine Ogundimu
• Donkey
  Joey Truman
• Small Moods
  Shane Kowalski
• New and Selected Stories
  Cristina Rivera Garza
• Monarch
  Candice Wuehle
• Illustrated Old Testament
  Samuel Robertson
• Hunchback ’88
  Christopher Norris
• The Compleat Lungfish
  Grant Maierhofer
• Human Rights
  Philip Best (editor)
• Elkhart
  Rebecca Greenes Gearhart
• POLO
  Jinnwoo
• Everything Is Totally Fine
  Zac Smith
• DƐVDMVTH
  Evan Isoline

Nonfiction

• The Cinema House and the World

  The Cahiers du Cinéma Years, 1962–1981
  Serge Daney
• Judy Blame’s Obituary

  Writings on Fashion and Death
  Derek McCormack
• Mothercare

  On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
  Lynne Tillman
• A Few Personal Messages
  Pierre Clémenti
• The Contortionist Whispers
  Will Alexander
• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• Quantum Listening
  Pauline Oliveros
• Faux Pas

  Selected Writings and Drawings
  Amy Sillman
• The Healer’s Wound

  A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia
  Dan Taulapapa McMullin
• Love, Loosha

  The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie
  Chip Livingston (editor)
• Children of the New Flesh

  The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
  Chris Kelso and David Leo Rice (editors)
• The Foghorn’s Lament

  The Disappearing Music of the Coast
  Jennifer Lucy Allan
• Hollis Frampton (October Files Book 26)
  Michael Zryd (editor)
• Des

  The Theatre of Death
  Martin Bladh
• Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?

  An Indie Odyssey
  Nige Tassell