Best Books of 2009
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Best Books of 2009
1. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
2. Open by Andre Agassi
3. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
4. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
5. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
6. Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
7. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
8. Going to See the Elephant by Rodes Fishburne
9. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
10. The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
Honorable Mention
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by John David California
The Associate by John Grisham
Stitches by David Small
Best American Comics of 2009, Ed. Charles Burns
Literary Life by Larry McMurtry
The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (currently reading)
Best Books not from 2009, but Read in 2009
The Likeness and In The Woods by Tana French
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Indignation by Philip Roth
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Serana by Ron Rash
Saturday by Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
On Writing by Stephen King
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
How Fiction Works by James Wood
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Invisible by Paul Auster
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini
Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
Red Ranger Came Calling by Berkeley Breathed
Disappointments of 2009
The Women by T.C. Boyle
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
The Humbling by Philip Roth
To Read from 2009
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Ford County by John Grisham
Game Six by Mark Frost
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
Columbine by David Cullen
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Book of Rhymes by Adam Bradley
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
How to Rap by Paul Edwards
Best Books of 2009
1. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
2. Open by Andre Agassi
3. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
4. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
5. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
6. Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
7. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
8. Going to See the Elephant by Rodes Fishburne
9. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
10. The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell
Honorable Mention
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye by John David California
The Associate by John Grisham
Stitches by David Small
Best American Comics of 2009, Ed. Charles Burns
Literary Life by Larry McMurtry
The Book of Genesis by R. Crumb
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (currently reading)
Best Books not from 2009, but Read in 2009
The Likeness and In The Woods by Tana French
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Indignation by Philip Roth
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Serana by Ron Rash
Saturday by Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
On Writing by Stephen King
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
How Fiction Works by James Wood
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Invisible by Paul Auster
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini
Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
Red Ranger Came Calling by Berkeley Breathed
Disappointments of 2009
The Women by T.C. Boyle
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
The Humbling by Philip Roth
To Read from 2009
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Ford County by John Grisham
Game Six by Mark Frost
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
Columbine by David Cullen
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Book of Rhymes by Adam Bradley
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
How to Rap by Paul Edwards