Time’s Best Books of 2009

Not tired yet of our “best of” lists?  If not, here is Time Magazine’s Top 10s

I haven’t read ANY yet, but have been on the library’s list for Wolf Hall, The Age of Wonder, Lit, and Strength in What Remains…  What should I add to my list?

Fiction:

  1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  2. The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter
  3. Swimming by Nicola Keegan
  4. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
  5. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
  6. Jeff in Venice, Geoff in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
  7. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
  8. Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
  9. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  10. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

Nonfiction:

  1. The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
  2. D-Day by Antony Beevor
  3. Lit by Mary Karr
  4. Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
  5. The Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
  6. Logicomix by Apostolis Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna
  7. Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
  8. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
  9. Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheehan
  10. Cheever by Blake Bailey

Children’s:

  1. Duck Rabbit by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
  2. Guess Again by Mac Barnett and Adam Rex
  3. Dogs Don’t Brush Their Teeth by Diane deGroat and Shelley Rotner
  4. Crow Call by Lois Lowry and Bagram Ibatoulline
  5. Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems
  6. Creature ABC by Andrew Zuckerman
  7. How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? by Jane Yolem and Mark Teague
  8. Pick a Pumpkin, Mrs. Millie! by Judy Cox and Joe Mathieu
  9. The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket and Carson Ellis
  10. The Snow Day by Komako Sakai

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About Kristen

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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One Response to Time’s Best Books of 2009

  1. I am currently reading catching fire and it is going well. I’m liking these series. hopefully they end as well as they started.

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