Village Voice Favorite Books

Given by The Village Voice

269 Works 570,836 Books 20,340 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:
Alle, 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)
VærkÅr
Eve's Hollywood af Eve Babitz
2015
Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection af Kate Beaton
2015
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg af Irin Carmon
2015
Welcome to Night Vale af Joseph Fink
2015
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It af Kate Harding
2015
The Argonauts af Maggie Nelson
2015
Talk af Linda Rosenkrantz
2015
Quicksand af Steve Toltz
2015
We all looked up af Tommy Wallach
2015
The Fever af Megan Abbott
2014
Brun sne : roman af Martin Amis
2014
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food af Dan Barber
2014
Shoplifter af Michael Cho
2014
An Untamed State af Roxane Gay
2014
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work af Melissa Gira Grant
2014
The Laughing Monsters af Denis Johnson
2014
California af Edan Lepucki
2014
American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny af Christopher Miller
2014
Mermaids in Paradise af Lydia Millet
2014
How to Be Both af Ali Smith
2014
Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America af Matt Apuzzo
2013
Traveling Sprinkler af Nicholson Baker
2013
The Riot Grrrl Collection af Lisa Darms
2013
At the Bottom of Everything af Ben Dolnick
2013
The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book: Uncommon Recipes from the Celebrated Brooklyn Pie Shop af Emily Elsen
2013
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson af Jeff Guinn
2013
Meaty: Essays af Samantha Irby
2013
The Flamethrowers af Rachel Kushner
2013
Dissident Gardens af Jonathan Lethem
2013
Taipei af Tao Lin
2013
The Fun Parts: Stories af Sam Lipsyte
2013
Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City af Choire Sicha
2013
Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art (The Phillips Book Prize Series) af Robert Slifkin
2013
The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories af Connie Willis
2013
Lotería af Mario Alberto Zambrano
2013
Weiwei-isms af Weiwei Ai
2012
Only a Poor Old Man af Carl Barks
2012
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama af Alison Bechdel
2012
Kvinden der forsvandt af Gillian Flynn
2012
1948 af Yoram Kaniuk
2012
Bring Up the Bodies af Hilary Mantel
2012
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace af D.T. Max
2012
My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays af 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 af Robin Shulman
2012
MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Sign, Storage, Transmission) af Jonathan Sterne
2012
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? af Jeanette Winterson
2012
Ready Player One af Ernest Cline
2011
The Scale of Maps af Belén Gopegui
2011
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History af Robert Hughes
2011
Beauty Is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising af Johan Kugelberg
2011
Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir af Piper Laurie
2011
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present af Jeff Madrick
2011
Nattens cirkus af Erin Morgenstern
2011
Tigerens kone af Téa Obreht
2011
Og vi kom over havet af Julie Otsuka
2011
Plenty af Yotam Ottolenghi
2011
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion af Janet Reitman
2011
I miles omkreds af Ali Smith
2011
Pulphead: Essays af John Jeremiah Sullivan
2011
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other af Sherry Turkle
2011
Quiet Chaos af Sandro Veronesi
2011
Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 af Ai Weiwei
2011
The Anthology of Rap af Adam Bradley
2010
Witz af Joshua Cohen
2010
Tæskeholdet banker på af Jennifer Egan
2010
Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty af Phoebe Hoban
2010
Encounter: Essays af Milan Kundera
2010
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River af Dan Morrison
2010
Skippy Dies af Paul Murray
2010
Just kids af Patti Smith
2010
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks af Dave Tompkins
2010
Six Novels in Woodcuts af Lynd Ward
2010
Syndflodens år af Margaret Atwood
2009
Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh af Adrian Heathfield
2009
Strength in What Remains af Tracy Kidder
2009
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman af Jon Krakauer
2009
Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 af Tim Lawrence
2009
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? af Padgett Powell
2009
Naturlige mangler af Thomas Pynchon
2009
Poems 1959-2009 af Frederick Seidel
2009
No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 af Richard Slotkin
2009
Alting plyndret, alting brændt : fortællinger af Wells Tower
2009
What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? af António Lobo Antunes
2008
2666 af Roberto Bolaño
2008
Nazi Literature in the Americas af Roberto Bolaño
2008
The Forever War af Dexter Filkins
2008
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist af Nancy Goldstein
2008
The Other Side of the Island af Allegra Goodman
2008
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation af Jonathan Hennessey
2008
Unaccustomed Earth af Jhumpa Lahiri
2008
En velsignelse af Toni Morrison
2008
Netherland af Joseph O'Neill
2008
Personal Days af Ed Park
2008
Lush Life af Richard Price
2008
Exit music af Ian Rankin
2008
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series) af Jack Spicer
2008
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America af Matt Weiland
2008
Christine Falls af Benjamin Black
2007
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy af John Bowe
2007
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector af Mick Brown
2007
Det jiddische politiforbund : roman af Michael Chabon
2007
Varieties of Disturbance: Stories af Lydia Davis
2007
Oscar Wao & hans korte og forunderlige liv af Junot Díaz
2007
All About H. Hatterr af G. V. Desani
2007
Novels in Three Lines af Félix Fénéon
2007
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved af Judith Freeman
2007
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts af Clive James
2007
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories af Miranda July
2007
Chokdoktrinen af Naomi Klein
2007
The Life of Kingsley Amis af Zachary Leader
2007
What the Dead Know af Laura Lippman
2007
Russisk dagbog af Anna Politkovskaya
2007
Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila af Paul Rambali
2007
Ice af Vladimir Sorokin
2007
Petropolis af Anya Ulinich
2007
An Elemental Thing af Eliot Weinberger
2007
August Wilson Century Cycle af August Wilson
2007
Andy Warhol Screen Tests: the Films of Andy Warhol: Catalogue Raisonné af Callie Angell
2006
The Afterlife af Donald Antrim
2006
Bedemandens datter : en tragikomisk familiehistorie af Alison Bechdel
2006
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square af Marshall Berman
2006
Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America af Cynthia Carr
2006
Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir af Lisa Crystal Carver
2006
The Totality for Kids (New California Poetry) af Joshua Clover
2006
The Thin Place af Kathryn Davis
2006
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories af Deborah Eisenberg
2006
Voices of Time: A Life in Stories af Eduardo Galeano
2006
China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic af Karl Taro Greenfeld
2006
Half Life af Shelley Jackson
2006
All Aunt Hagar's Children af Edward P. Jones
2006
Vejen : roman af Cormac McCarthy
2006
The Emperor's Children af Claire Messud
2006
Lost girls - vildfarne piger af Alan Moore
2006
Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969 af Dan Nadel
2006
Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder af Mark Nelson
2006
The Last of Her Kind af Sigrid Nunez
2006
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon af Julie Phillips
2006
New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium (New York) af Robert A. M. Stern
2006
Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 af Brandon Stosuy
2006
American Genius: A Comedy af Lynne Tillman
2006
Memorial: A Novel af Bruce Wagner
2006
Sort hul af Charles Burns
2005
Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition af Jeff Byles
2005
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson af Jonathan Coe
2005
The Sluts af Dennis Cooper
2005
Et år med magisk tænkning af Joan Didion
2005
Lunar Park : roman af Bret Easton Ellis
2005
Love Creeps af Amanda Filipacchi
2005
Ekstremt højt & utrolig tæt på : roman af Jonathan Safran Foer
2005
Atomik Aztex af Sesshu Foster
2005
Veronica af Mary Gaitskill
2005
The Letters of Robert Lowell af Saskia Hamilton
2005
Times Like These af Rachel Ingalls
2005
Never Let Me Go af Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
Povel af Geraldine Kim
2005
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story af Chuck Klosterman
2005
The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch af Kenneth Koch
2005
Magic for Beginners af Kelly Link
2005
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style af Matt Madden
2005
My Life In CIA: A Chronicle of 1973 af Harry Mathews
2005
Other Electricities: Stories af Ander Monson
2005
Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer af Vik Muniz
2005
Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century af Patrik Ouředník
2005
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War af Retort
2005
Wimbledon Green af Seth
2005
Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction af Sue Townsend
2005
Wake Up, Sir! af Jonathan Ames
2004
Mr. Dynamite af Meredith Brosnan
2004
Halvbroderen af Lars Saabye Christensen
2004
Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry af Santo Cilauro
2004
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell af Susanna Clarke
2004
Blood and Soap af Linh Dinh
2004
Old Friends af Stephen Dixon
2004
Krøniker, bind 1 af Bob Dylan
2004
Happy Baby af Stephen Elliott
2004
Looking Forward to It: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the American Electoral Process af Stephen Elliott
2004
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America af Thomas Frank
2004
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett af Jennifer Gonnerman
2004
(some of) The Adventures of Carlyle, My Imaginary Friend (Iowa Poetry Prize) af Dainis Hazners
2004
I skønhedens tjeneste : roman af Alan Hollinghurst
2004
The Seas af Samantha Hunt
2004
In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics af François Jullien
2004
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free af James Kelman
2004
Grab Bag af Derek McCormack
2004
The Haunted Hillbilly af Derek McCormack
2004
April Fool's Day: A Novel (P.S.) af Josip Novakovich
2004
The Age of Sinatra (Soft Skull ShortLit) af David Ohle
2004
Sne af Orhan Pamuk
2004
Fidelity: Stories af Michael Redhill
2004
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture af Lisa Robertson
2004
Teheran tur-retur af Marjane Satrapi
2004
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo af Ned Sublette
2004
Sayonara, Gangsters af Gen'ichirō Takahashi
2004
Brick Lane af Monica Ali
2003
Diane Arbus Revelations af Diane Arbus
2003
Any Human Heart af William Boyd
2003
American Woman af Susan Choi
2003
Elizabeth Costello af J. M. Coetzee
2003
P: A Novel af Andrew Conn
2003
Hej Nostradamus! af Douglas Coupland
2003
Mønstergenkendelse af William Gibson
2003
Final Girl af Daphne Gottlieb
2003
Den mystiske sag om hunden i natten : roman af Mark Haddon
2003
The Fatalist af Lyn Hejinian
2003
Fathom af Andrew Joron
2003
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx af Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
2003
Ensomhedens fæstning af Jonathan Lethem
2003
From the Atelier Tovar af Guy Maddin
2003
At leve for at fortælle af Gabriel García Márquez
2003
Actress in the House af Joseph McElroy
2003
Who Sleeps with Katz af Todd McEwen
2003
Magic circles: The Beatles in dream and history af Devin McKinney
2003
Vejen til Swann af Marcel Proust
2003
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo af Joe Sacco
2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West af Rebecca Solnit
2003
Politics af Adam Thirlwell
2003
The Book of Salt af Monique Truong
2003
The Frank Book af Jim Woodring
2003
My Loose Thread af Dennis Cooper
2002
Cards of Identity af Nigel Dennis
2002
You Shall Know Our Velocity af Dave Eggers
2002
The Mount: A Novel af Carol Emshwiller
2002
Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity--A Cultural Biography af Irene Gammel
2002
State of Siege af Juan Goytisolo
2002
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories af Adam Haslett
2002
Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies af Aleksandar Hemon
2002
Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: "There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay" af George Herriman
2002
Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick" af George Herriman
2002
Dear Mr. President af Gabe Hudson
2002
Depraved Indifference af Gary Indiana
2002
ego trip's Big Book of Racism! af Sacha Jenkins
2002
Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal af John M. MacGregor
2002
The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems af Sarah Manguso
2002
Soning af Ian McEwan
2002
Efter skælvet af Haruki Murakami
2002
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film af Michael Ondaatje
2002
Lullaby af Chuck Palahniuk
2002
After Nature af W. G. Sebald
2002
Globalization and Its Discontents af Joseph E. Stiglitz
2002
This Is Not It af Lynne Tillman
2002
Under Radar af Michael Tolkin
2002
The Portable Promised Land: Stories af Touré
2002
A New Kind of Science af Stephen Wolfram
2002
Niagara af Mary Woronov
2002
London: The Biography af Peter Ackroyd
2001
Antebellum Dream Book af Elizabeth Alexander
2001
Views from the South af Sarah Anderson
2001
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991 af Michael Azerrad
2001
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel af Isaac Babel
2001
Non #5 af Jordan Crane
2001
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories af Lydia Davis
2001
The Last Summer of Reason af Tahar Djaout
2001
The Wig My Father Wore af Anne Enright
2001
Korrektioner af Jonathan Franzen
2001
Annette Messager (La Creation Contemporaine) af Catherine Grenier
2001
By the Sea af Abdulrazak Gurnah
2001
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 af Jonathan I. Israel
2001
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software af Steven Johnson
2001
Stranger Things Happen: Stories af Kelly Link
2001
Our Word is Our Weapon af Subcomandante Marcos
2001
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 af Melani McAlister
2001
Mit navn er Rød af Orhan Pamuk
2001
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus af Rick Perlstein
2001
Raymond Pettibon af Raymond Pettibon
2001
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity af Vijay Prashad
2001
Fastfood nationen : skyggesiden af det ærkeamerikanske måltid af Eric Schlosser
2001
Austerlitz af W. G. Sebald
2001
The Annotated "Here" af Marjorie Welish
2001
John Henry Days af Colson Whitehead
2001

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