My Favorite Books of 2005
Fiction
Dennis Cooper, The Sluts (Void Books)
Tibor Déry, Love and Other Stories (New Directions Classics)
Harold Jaffe, Terror-Dot-Gov (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Tayari Jones, The Untelling (Warner)
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (Knopf)
Gilbert Sorrentino, Lunar Follies (Coffee House Press)
William T. Vollmann, Europe Central (Viking)
Poetry
Daniel Bouchard, Some Mountains Removed (Subpress)
Tyehimba Jess, leadbelly (Verse Press)
Nonfiction
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth (Canongate)
Robert Jensen, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege (City Lights)
Barbara Tedlock, The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine (Bantam)
Dennis Cooper, The Sluts (Void Books)
Tibor Déry, Love and Other Stories (New Directions Classics)
Harold Jaffe, Terror-Dot-Gov (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Tayari Jones, The Untelling (Warner)
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (Knopf)
Gilbert Sorrentino, Lunar Follies (Coffee House Press)
William T. Vollmann, Europe Central (Viking)
Poetry
Daniel Bouchard, Some Mountains Removed (Subpress)
Tyehimba Jess, leadbelly (Verse Press)
Nonfiction
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth (Canongate)
Robert Jensen, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege (City Lights)
Barbara Tedlock, The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine (Bantam)


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Tyehimba and I thank you for putting us on your year-end list. He just gave a terrific reading at the Wonderworld Ballroom (I think that was the name of the place), here in D.C. We then spent over an hour trying to figure out how to get back to my place-- a full three miles away!
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