Various newspapers, journals, and media outlets list their picks for “best books” published the prior year. Here is a partial listing of 2009 titles that appeared on multiple “best” lists.
FICTION:
The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
Invisible, Paul Auster
The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
Britten and Brülightly, Hannah Berry OVERSIZE 741.5 BER (graphic novel)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem, Seth Grahame-Smith
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
American Salvage: Stories, Bonnie Jo Campbell
Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
The Sky Below, Stacey D’Erasmo
Spooner, Pete Dexter
Homer & Langley, E.L. Doctorow
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer
Blood’s a Rover, James Ellroy
Every Man Dies Alone, Hans Fallada
Wanting, Richard Flanagan
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
The Man in the Wooden Hat, Jane Gardam
The Neighbor, Lisa Gardner
The Magicians, Lev Grossman
Starvation Lake: A Mystery, Bryan Gruley
Tinkers, Paul Harding
The Believers, Zoë Heller
Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
Blame, Michelle Huneven
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, Charlie Huston
Swimming, Nicola Keegan
A Quiet Flame: A Bernie Gunther Novel, Philip Kerr
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Mathilda Savitch, Victor Lodato
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
It’s Beginning To Hurt, James Lasdun
Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem
The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
Border Songs, Jim Lynch
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Confessions of Edward Day, Valerie Martin
Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli 741.5 MAZ (graphic novel)
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
How It Ended: New and Collected Stories, Jay McInerney
American Rust, Philipp Meyer
The City & the City, China Miéville
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
The Long Fall, Walter Mosley
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin
Too Much Happiness: Stories, Alice Munro
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
Hardball, Sara Paretsky
The Song Is You, Arthur Phillips
Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
Generosity: An Enhancement, Richard Powers
Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon
The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Novel, James Rollins
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
Love and Summer, William Trevor
This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper
A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
Half-Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, Jeannette Walls
The Financial Lives of the Poets, Jess Walter
Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
NONFICTION:
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disasters,
Rebecca Solnit 303.485 SOL
Strength in What Remains,
Tracy Kidder 305.8967572 KID
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City,
Greg Grandin 307.767 GRA
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work,
Matthew B. Crawford 331 CRA
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World,
Liaquat Ahamed 332.11092 AHA
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street,
Justin Fox 332.64 FOX
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon,
Neil Sheehan 355 SHE
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater,
Frank Bruni 362.1968526 BRU
Columbine,
Dave Cullen 373.78882 CUL
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science,
Richard Holmes 509.41 HOL
Gourmet Today: More Than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen,
Edited by Ruth Reichl 641.59 GOU
Stiches: A Memoir,
David Small 741.5 SMA (graphic nonfiction)
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker,
James McManus 795.412 MCM
Open: An Autobiography,
Andre Agassi 796.342 AGA
Lit: A Memoir,
Mary Karr 811.54 KAR
Ayn Rand and the World She Made,
Anne Conover Heller 813.52 RAN
The Lost City Of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon,
David Grann 918.11 GRA
The Third Reich At War,
Richard J. Evans 940.5343 EVA
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath,
Michael Norman 940.547252 NOR
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,
Gordon S. Wood 973.4 WOO
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression,
Morris Dickstein 973.91 DIC
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America,
Douglas Brinkley 973.911 BRI
Zeitoun,
Dave Eggers 976.335064 EGG
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong,
Terry Teachout B ARMSTRONG
Cheever: A Life,
Blake Bailey B CHEEVER
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor,
Brad Gooch B OCONNOR
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt,
T.J. Stiles B VANDERBILT
Sources include The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,Library Journal, Booklist, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, National Public Radio, and The Economist, and other print and online sources. For other reading suggestions Ask Readers Services!
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