Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2024, in no order

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

Fiction

• A Queen in Bucks County
  Kay Gabriel
• Adorable
  Ida Marie Hede
• UXA.GOV
  Blake Butler
• Disquiet Drive
  Hesse K.
• I Don’t Care
  Ágota Kristóf
• Casey Anthony, Renowned Trapeze Artist
  Joseph Goosey
• Medusa of the Roses
  Navid Sinaki
• Sex Goblin
  Lauren Cook
• Stab Frenzy
  Gary J. Shipley
• Concerning the Future of Souls

  99 Stories of Azrael
  Joy Williams
• Shame
  Wolfe Margolies
• You Are the Snake
  Juliet Escoria
• Log Off
  Kristen Felicetti
• Bloodletter
  David Kuhnlein
• Thieves
  Valerie Werder
• Slasher Reduxxx
  Snatch Wylden
• Myth Lab

  Theories of Plastic Love
  Jack Skelley
• Saké Blue

  Selected Writings
  Estelle Hoy
• Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
  Danielle Dutton
• Pissant… Bib… Dollar Tree Parts… We Should Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves… 03/22/2019… Against Confidence…
  Grant Maierhofer
• Coyote
  Max Restaino
• 2-BYTE βETA Ei8ht ½-LOOPƨ
  1-wing 2can, et al
• Mr. Crabby You Have Died
  Jeremy Kitchen
• What Happened Was
  Katharine Haake
• The Berlin Wall
  David Leo Rice
• Massive
  John Trefry
• Mice 1961
  Stacey Levine
• "dethrone god"
  Christopher Owens
• The Psychic Surgeon Assists
  Zebulon House
• Violent Faculties
  Charlene Elsby
• Ripcord
  Nate Lippens
• Ultratheatre

  Volume 1
  Logan Berry

Nonfiction

• Candy Darling

  Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
  Cynthia Carr
• Wrong Norma
  Anne Carson
• Get the Money!

  Collected Prose (1961-1983)
  Ted Berrigan
• Six Sermons for Bob Dylan
  Lucy Sante
• Radiant

  The Life and Line of Keith Haring
  Brad Gooch
• Little Joe

  A Book About Queers and Cinema, Mostly
  Sam Ashby (editor)
• The Naif
  Valerie Hsiung
• Surface Studies
  Mike Corrao
• Selected Amazon Reviews
  Kevin Killian
• Creation

  On Art and Unbecoming
  Christopher Zeischegg
• Travels Over Feeling

  Arthur Russell, a Life
  Richard King
• Love, Joe

  The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard
  Joe Brainard
• Grave Desire

  A Cultural History of Necrophilia
  Steve Finbow
• Footlights

  Critical Notebook 1970–1982
  Serge Daney
• The Dragonfly’s Eye

  My Virtual Camera (AI)
  Alexander Kluge