Once again, December brings an opportunity to reflect upon the year’s publications. Like previous years, my “most engaging books” list is idiosyncratic and reflects what i found most fascinating / useful / generative. Seek out these volumes, every one will reward the search. Your local, independent, bookstore can help…. This is the cream of the crop for 2015, seriously:

• Allemann, Urs. (trans. Patrick Greaney). The Old Man and the Bench. (Dalkey Archive Press)
• Bök, Christian. The Xenotext (Book 1). (Coach House Books)
• Brossard, Nicole. (trans. Angela Carr). Ardour. (Coach House Books)
• Cage, John. Diary: How to Improve the world (You will only make matters worse). (Siglio)
• Carmody, Teresa and Vanessa Place. Maison Femme: a fiction. (Bon Aire Projects)
• Cobbing, William and Rosie Cooper, eds. Boooook: The Life and Work of Bob Cobbing. (Occasional papers)
• Dworkin, Craig. Alkali. (Counterpath)
• Garréta, Anne. (trans. Emma Ramadan). Sphinx. (Deep Vellum)
• Goldsmith, Kenneth. Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century. (Verso)
• Goldsmith, Kenneth. Theory / Théorie. (Jean Boîte Éditions)
• Reznikoff, Charles. Testimony: The United States (1885-1915): Recitative. (finally reprinted from the 1978 edition by Black Sparrow)
• Sousanis, Nick. Unflattening. (Harvard UP)
• Levé, Edouard. (trans. Jan Steyn & Caite Dolan-Leach). Newspaper. (Dalkey Archive Press)
• Waeckerlé, Emmanuelle. Reading (Story of) O. (Uniformbooks)
• Worth, Liz. No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. (Bookthug)