This list ranks the number of times publications have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading.
BANR: 2002-2008*
*Issues missing from the list: 2006; 2009; 2010.
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| Zoetrope | 9 |
| New Yorker | 8 |
| New York Times | 6 |
| Esquire | 4 |
| Tin House | 4 |
| The Onion | 3 |
| The Atlantic Monthly | 3 |
| Epoch | 3 |
| Indiana Review | 3 |
| Virginia Quarterly Review | 3 |
| Transition | 2 |
| Time | 2 |
| Little Engines | 2 |
| ZYZZYVA | 2 |
| Modern Humorist | 2 |
| Alaska Quarterly Review | 2 |
| Harper’s Magazine | 2 |
| Story Quarterly | 2 |
| McSweeny’s | 2 |
| Pindeldyboz | 2 |
| Mid-American Review | 2 |
| GQ | 2 |
| Monkeybicycle | 2 |
| Mother Jones | 2 |
| Creative Nonfiction | 2 |
| Open City | 2 |
| To-Do List | 1 |
| The Villiage Voice | 1 |
| Jane | 1 |
| Spin | 1 |
| McSweeny’s.net | 1 |
| Sports Illustrated | 1 |
| Optic Nerve #8 | 1 |
| Future Tense Press | 1 |
| One! Hundred! Demons! | 1 |
| Mississippi Review | 1 |
| Nerve.com | 1 |
| 7 x 7 | 1 |
| Columbia Review | 1 |
| Shout | 1 |
| Bomb | 1 |
| SPX | 1 |
| Texas Monthly | 1 |
| Kramer’s Ergot four | 1 |
| Blind Spot | 1 |
| Doubletake | 1 |
| Praire Schooner | 1 |
| Conjunctions | 1 |
| Three Penny Review | 1 |
| New Letters | 1 |
| Iowa Review | 1 |
| The Believer | 1 |
| Passing Periods | 1 |
| Blood Orange | 1 |
| Swink | 1 |
| Black Book | 1 |
| Other Voices | 1 |
| African-American Review | 1 |
| Rolling Stone | 1 |
| Maisonneuve | 1 |
| Details | 1 |
| New England Review | 1 |
| Slate | 1 |
| Swivel | 1 |
| Yankee Pot Roast | 1 |
| Smith | 1 |
| Spin | 1 |
| Fun Home | 1 |
| New Orleans Review | 1 |
| Five Chapters | 1 |
| Barrelhouse | 1 |
| AGNI | 1 |
| American Short Fiction | 1 |
| Vice Magazine | 1 |
| Oxford American | 1 |
| The Three Paradoxes | 1 |
| The Paris Review | 1 |
| The Kenyon Review | 1 |
| The Washington Post | 1 |
The Rankings 