Reader’s Advisory Best Mainstream Reads of 2009

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

How, how I love the Reader’s Advisory’s Sunday lists!!  Here was a recent favorite — Best Mainstream Reads of 2009 with links to Amazon.  By the way, if you have a minute — I would love to read comments on what “mainstream reads” means to YOU!  At what point can a work be considered “mainstream”?  I “starred” the titles I’ve read on the list so far (and loved, actually) and Invisible is waiting at the library for me at this moment…

  • Paul Auster – Invisible
  • Nicholson Baker – The Anthologist
  • Dan Chaon – Await Your Reply
  • Chris Cleave – Little Bee **
  • Stacey D’Erasmo – The Sky Below
  • Pete Dexter – Spooner
  • Paul Harding – Tinkers **
  • Barbara Kingsolver -The Lacuna **
  • Brad Leithauser – The Art Student’s War
  • Colum McCann – Let the Great World Spin
  • Lorrie Moore – A Gate At the Stairs
  • C. E. Morgan – All the Living
  • Bich Minh Nguyen – Short Girls **
  • Orhan Pamuk – The Museum of Innocence
  • Arthur Phillip – The Song Is You
  • Patrick Somerville – The Cradle
  • Jonathan Tropper – This Is Where I Leave You
  • Juan Gabriel Vasquez – The Informant
  • Kate Walbert – A Short History of Women
  • Jeanette Walls – Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel  **
  • Colson Whitehead – Sag Harbor

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    I have been a high school teacher for 15 years and am ready to embark on a new project! I hope to promote classic literature and help book clubs rediscover these gems.
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