Village Voice Favorite Books

Given by The Village Voice

269 Works 572,528 Books 20,396 Reviews ½ 3.9

The favorite books of the year as selected by the Village Voice. Note that these started out as the top 25, got as high as 27 and have gone as low as 10.

Years:
All, 2015 (9), 2014 (11), 2013 (15), 2012 (11), 2011 (16), 2010 (10), 2009 (10), 2008 (15), 2007 (20), 2006 (24), 2005 (25), 2004 (27), 2003 (25), 2002 (26), 2001 (25)
WorkYear
Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz
2015
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection by Kate Beaton
2015
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
2015
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
2015
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It by Kate Harding
2015
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
2015
Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz
2015
Quicksand by Steve Toltz
2015
We all looked up by Tommy Wallach
2015
The Fever by Megan Abbott
2014
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
2014
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
2014
Shoplifter by Michael Cho
2014
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
2014
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant
2014
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
2014
California by Edan Lepucki
2014
American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny by Christopher Miller
2014
Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
2014
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
2014
Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America by Matt Apuzzo
2013
Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
2013
The Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms
2013
At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick
2013
The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes from the Celebrated Brooklyn Pie Shop by Emily Elsen
2013
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
2013
Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
2013
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
2013
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
2013
Taipei by Tao Lin
2013
The Fun Parts: Stories by Sam Lipsyte
2013
Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City by Choire Sicha
2013
Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art (The Phillips Book Prize Series) by Robert Slifkin
2013
The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories by Connie Willis
2013
Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
2013
Weiwei-isms by Weiwei Ai
2012
Only a Poor Old Man by Carl Barks
2012
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2012
1948 by Yoram Kaniuk
2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2012
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max
2012
My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays by Davy Rothbart
2012
Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York by Robin Shulman
2012
MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Sign, Storage, Transmission) by Jonathan Sterne
2012
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
2012
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
2011
The Scale of Maps by Belén Gopegui
2011
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History by Robert Hughes
2011
Beauty Is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising by Johan Kugelberg
2011
Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir by Piper Laurie
2011
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick
2011
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
2011
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
2011
Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi
2011
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
2011
There But For The by Ali Smith
2011
Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
2011
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
2011
Quiet Chaos by Sandro Veronesi
2011
Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 by Ai Weiwei
2011
The Anthology of Rap by Adam Bradley
2010
Witz by Joshua Cohen
2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2010
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban
2010
Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera
2010
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River by Dan Morrison
2010
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
2010
Just Kids by Patti Smith
2010
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks by Dave Tompkins
2010
Six Novels in Woodcuts by Lynd Ward
2010
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
2009
Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh by Adrian Heathfield
2009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
2009
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
2009
Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 by Tim Lawrence
2009
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
2009
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
2009
Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel
2009
No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 by Richard Slotkin
2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
2009
What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? by António Lobo Antunes
2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2008
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
2008
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
2008
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist by Nancy Goldstein
2008
The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
2008
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation by Jonathan Hennessey
2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2008
Personal Days by Ed Park
2008
Lush Life by Richard Price
2008
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
2008
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Jack Spicer
2008
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Matt Weiland
2008
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
2007
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy by John Bowe
2007
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown
2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
2007
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories by Lydia Davis
2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2007
All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani
2007
Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon
2007
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman
2007
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
2007
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories by Miranda July
2007
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
2007
The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader
2007
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
2007
A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
2007
Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila by Paul Rambali
2007
Ice by Vladimir Sorokin
2007
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich
2007
An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
2007
August Wilson Century Cycle by August Wilson
2007
Andy Warhol Screen Tests: the Films of Andy Warhol: Catalogue Raisonné by Callie Angell
2006
The Afterlife by Donald Antrim
2006
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
2006
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square by Marshall Berman
2006
Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr
2006
Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir by Lisa Crystal Carver
2006
The Totality for Kids (New California Poetry) by Joshua Clover
2006
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
2006
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
2006
Voices of Time: A Life in Stories by Eduardo Galeano
2006
China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic by Karl Taro Greenfeld
2006
Half Life by Shelley Jackson
2006
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
2006
Lost Girls by Alan Moore
2006
Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969 by Dan Nadel
2006
Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder by Mark Nelson
2006
The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
2006
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
2006
New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium (New York) by Robert A. M. Stern
2006
Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 by Brandon Stosuy
2006
American Genius: A Comedy by Lynne Tillman
2006
Memorial: A Novel by Bruce Wagner
2006
Black Hole by Charles Burns
2005
Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition by Jeff Byles
2005
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe
2005
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2005
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
2005
Love Creeps by Amanda Filipacchi
2005
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2005
Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster
2005
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
2005
The Letters of Robert Lowell by Saskia Hamilton
2005
Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls
2005
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
Povel by Geraldine Kim
2005
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
2005
The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch by Kenneth Koch
2005
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
2005
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style by Matt Madden
2005
My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 by Harry Mathews
2005
Other Electricities: Stories by Ander Monson
2005
Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer by Vik Muniz
2005
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník
2005
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War by Retort
2005
Wimbledon Green by Seth
2005
Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
2005
Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames
2004
Mr. Dynamite by Meredith Brosnan
2004
The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
2004
Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry by Santo Cilauro
2004
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2004
Blood and Soap by Linh Dinh
2004
Old Friends by Stephen Dixon
2004
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
2004
Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
2004
Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process by Stephen Elliott
2004
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
2004
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett by Jennifer Gonnerman
2004
(some of) The Adventures of Carlyle, My Imaginary Friend (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Dainis Hazners
2004
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2004
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
2004
In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics by François Jullien
2004
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman
2004
Grab Bag by Derek McCormack
2004
The Haunted Hillbilly by Derek McCormack
2004
April Fool's Day: A Novel (P.S.) by Josip Novakovich
2004
The Age of Sinatra (Soft Skull ShortLit) by David Ohle
2004
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
2004
Fidelity: Stories by Michael Redhill
2004
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson
2004
Persepolis II: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
2004
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette
2004
Sayonara, Gangsters by Gen'ichirō Takahashi
2004
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
2003
Diane Arbus Revelations by Diane Arbus
2003
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
2003
American Woman by Susan Choi
2003
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
2003
P: A Novel by Andrew Conn
2003
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
2003
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
2003
Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb
2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2003
The Fatalist by Lyn Hejinian
2003
Fathom by Andrew Joron
2003
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
2003
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
2003
From the Atelier Tovar by Guy Maddin
2003
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
2003
Actress in the House by Joseph McElroy
2003
Who Sleeps with Katz by Todd McEwen
2003
Magic circles: The Beatles in dream and history by Devin McKinney
2003
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
2003
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo by Joe Sacco
2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit
2003
Politics by Adam Thirlwell
2003
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
2003
The Frank Book by Jim Woodring
2003
My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper
2002
Cards of Identity by Nigel Dennis
2002
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
2002
The Mount: A Novel by Carol Emshwiller
2002
Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity--A Cultural Biography by Irene Gammel
2002
State of Siege by Juan Goytisolo
2002
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories by Adam Haslett
2002
Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies by Aleksandar Hemon
2002
Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: "There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay" by George Herriman
2002
Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick" by George Herriman
2002
Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson
2002
Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana
2002
ego trip's Big Book of Racism! by Sacha Jenkins
2002
Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal by John M. MacGregor
2002
The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems by Sarah Manguso
2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan
2002
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
2002
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
2002
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
2002
After Nature by W. G. Sebald
2002
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
2002
This Is Not It by Lynne Tillman
2002
Under Radar by Michael Tolkin
2002
The Portable Promised Land: Stories by Touré
2002
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
2002
Niagara by Mary Woronov
2002
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
2001
Antebellum Dream Book by Elizabeth Alexander
2001
Views from the South by Sarah Anderson
2001
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
2001
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
2001
Non #5 by Jordan Crane
2001
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories by Lydia Davis
2001
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
2001
The Wig My Father Wore by Anne Enright
2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2001
Annette Messager (La Creation Contemporaine) by Catherine Grenier
2001
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
2001
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel
2001
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
2001
Stranger Things Happen: Stories by Kelly Link
2001
Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos
2001
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 by Melani McAlister
2001
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
2001
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
2001
Raymond Pettibon by Raymond Pettibon
2001
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity by Vijay Prashad
2001
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
2001
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
2001
The Annotated "Here" by Marjorie Welish
2001
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
2001

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