Favorite Books of the Year: City Lights

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CITY LIGHTS (SAN FRANCISCO)

Paul Yamazaki: In the Country: Stories, Mia Alvar · The Sellout, Paul Beatty · Between the World and Me, Ta-Nahisi Coates · Counternarratives, John Keene · Beauty Is a Wound, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker

Cassie Duggan: A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin · Oreo, Fran Ross · The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson · The Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson · M Train, Patti Smith 

Jeff Battis: The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, James Shapiro · The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst · Future Days: Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music, David Stubbs · The Future of the Skyscraper, edited by Philip Nobel · The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, David Talbot

Tân Khánh Cao: Counternarratives, John Keene · The Sympathizer , Viet Thanh Nguyen · The Sellout, Paul Beatty · Stella: A Novel of the Haitian Revolution, Émeric Bereaud, edited and translated by Lesley Curtis and Christen Mucher · Better Than War, Siamak Vossoughi

Vanessa Martini: Gold Fame Citrus, Claire Vaye Watkins · Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Space Flight, Margaret Lazarus Dean · The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson · The Visiting Privilege, Joy Williams · The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli

Don Campana: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Neil Gaiman · The Other Paris by Luc Sante · Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson · Ruins, Peter Kuper · Bob Dylan, All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guerdon

Ivy Anderson: The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson · Between the World and Me, Ta-Nahisi Coates · The Other Paris, Luc Sante · Black Earth: The Holocaust As History and Warning, Timothy · Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization, Roy Scranton

Michael Young: The Sellout, Paul Beatty · Counternarratives, John Keene · The Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson · S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka · Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita, Robert Roper

Jackson Meazle: What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford · Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners, edited by Robert Dewhurst, Joshua Beckman, and CAConrad · On Time: Poems 2005-2014, Joanne Kyger · S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka · Someone’s Dead Already, Tongo Eisen-Martin