Year-End Lists

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2025, in no order

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

Fiction

• The Endless Week
  Laura Vazquez
• Practicing Dying
  Charlotte Northall
• Eusect
  C.L. Methvin
• Whites

  Stories
  Mark Doten
• For disobeying
  sasha hawkins
• We’ll Never Be Fragile Again
  Thomas Moore
• Loren Ipsum
  Andrew Gallix
• Being Towards Death
  Mike Corrao
• Silicone God
  Victoria Brooks
• The Utopians
  Grace Nissan
• The Orchid Stories (1973)
  Kenward Elmslie
• Cardinal Numbers
  Hob Broun
• Thrilled to Death

  Selected Stories
  Lynne Tillman
• Moth Girl
  Calvin Westra
• The Revolution Will Not Have Been Downloaded
  Francis Whorrall-Campbell
• A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father
  Gonçalo M. Tavares
• The Squimbop Condition
  David Leo Rice
• Cartoons
  Kit Schluter
• Your Name Here
  Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
• Codon
  Arreshy Young
• Forged Prescriptions
  Tony O’Neill
• An Odyssey of Dingbats!
  Mr. Omar King
• Demons of Eminence
  Joshua Escobar
• SMALLTOWNNOVELLA
  Ronald M. Schernikau
• Doom Is the House Without a Door
  Logan Berry
• Traumnovelle
  Grant Maierhofer
• Idiocy
  Pierre Guyotat
• So Tender a Killer
  Matthew Kinlin
• Tramps Like Us
  Joe Westmoreland
• Purple Men 2000
  Robert Glück

Nonfiction

• America

  The Troubled Continent of Thought
  Avital Ronell
• Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
  Ian Penman
• Rock Notes
  Clark Coolidge and Tom Clark
• Conversations with New York School Poets
  Yasmine Shamma and Rona Cran (editors)
• The Surrender of Man
  Naomi Falk
• Sourcebooks
  Peggy Ahwesh
• Heat Death Issue 2
  New Juche
• Reading the Waves

  A Memoir
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• Dick

  A Memoir of Dick Gallup
  Ron Padgett
• THING
  Robert Ford, Trent Adkins, and Lawrence Warren (editors)
• Work
  Mike Hoolboom
• A Day Like Any Other

  The Life of James Schuyler
  Nathan Kernan
• On Melting

  Essays Against the Body
  Chris Kelso
• Fascist Yoga

  Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order In Wellness
  Stewart Home
• Love, Joe

  The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard
  Joe Brainard
• Everything Is Now

  The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
  J. Hoberman
• Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn

  A Walk on the Wild Side with Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar
  Jeff Copeland