The Book Addicts Top 60 Favourite Reads of 2009

December 23rd, 2009 § 1 comment

The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker

The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker

Novels

1. The Anthologist (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Nicholson Baker

2. Strangers (Fig Tree, 2009) / Anita Brookner

3. The Children’s Book (Knopf/Doubleday, 2009) / A.S. Byatt

4. Await Your Reply (Ballantine/Random House, 2009) / Dan Chaon

5. Galore (Doubleday Canada, 2009) / Michael Crummey

6. The Bradshaw Variations (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Rachel Cusk

7. Solo (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Rana Dasgupta

8. The Great Lover (Sceptre, 2009) / Jill Dawson

9. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (Canongate, 2009) / Geoff Dyer

10. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Jane Gardam

11. Another Gulmohar Tree (Telegram Books, 2009) / Aamer Hussein

12. This Is How (Canongate, 2009) / M.J. Hyland

13. The Truth About Love (Virago, 2009) / Josephine Hart

14. Family Album (Fig Tree, 2009) / Penelope Lively

15. The Confessions of Edward Day (Nan A. Talese/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Valerie Martin

16. Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Hilary Mantel

17. The Glass Room (Little, Brown, 2009) / Simon Mawer

18. Let the Great World Spin (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Colum McCann

19. The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada, 2009) / Linden MacIntyre

20. Under This Unbroken Sky (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Shandi Mitchell

21. A Gate at the Stairs (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Lorrie Moore

22. Stone’s Fall (Jonathan Cape/Spiegel & Grau, 2009) / Iain Pears

23. Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Jayne Anne Phillips

24. The Mistress of Nothing (McArthur & Co., 2009) / Kate Pullinger

25. Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Kamila Shamsie

26. Brooklyn (Viking, 2009) / Colm Toibin

27. Love and Summer (Viking, 2009) / William Trevor

28. Half Broke Horse: A True-Life Novel (Scribner, 2009) / Jeannette Walls

29. The Little Stranger (Virago, 2009) / Sarah Waters

An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay

An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay

First Novels

30. An Equal Stillness (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Francesca Kay

31. The Golden Mean (Random House Canada, 2009) / Annabel Lyon

32. American Rust (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Philipp Meyer

33. After the Fire, a Still Small Voice (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Evie Wyld

Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

Stories

34. Between the Assassinations (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Aravind Adiga

35. Love Begins in Winter (HarperCollins, 2009) / Simon Van Booy

36. An Elegy for Easterly (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Petina Gappah

37. A Good Fall (Pantheon/Knopf Doubleday, 2009) / Ha Jin

38. It’s Beginning to Hurt (Jonathan Cape/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / James Lasdun

39. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Riverhead Books, 2009) / Maile Meloy

40. Too Much Happiness (Knopf Doubleday/Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Alice Munro

41. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W.W. Norton/Bloomsbury, 2009) / Daniyal Mueenuddin

42. My Father’s Tears and Other Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / John Updike

43. Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009) / Paul Yoon

Poetry

44. The Striped World (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Emma Jones

45. Rain (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Don Paterson

Cheever: A Life Author by Blake Bailey

Cheever: A Life Author by Blake Bailey

Nonfiction

46. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill (Granta Books, 2009) / Diana Athill

47. Cheever: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Blake Bailey

48. William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (Faber & Faber, 2009) / John Carey

49. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Bloomsbury, 2009) / William Dalrymple

50. The Music Room: A Memoir (W.W. Norton, 2009) / William Fiennes

51. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (Little, Brown, 2009) / Brad Gooch

52. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (John Murray, 2009) / Selina Hastings

53. Saving God: Religion after Idolatry (Princeton University Press, 2009) / Mark Johnston

54. Lit: A Memoir (Harper, 2009) / Mary Karr

55. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Allen Lane, 2009) / Diarmaid MacCulloch

56. The Essays of Leonard Michaels (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / Leonard Michaels

57. The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Lilian Pizzichini

58. Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life (Scribner, 2009) / Carol Sklenicka

59. Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing (Yale University Press, 2009) / Michael Slater

60. Muriel Spark: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Martin Stannard

The Book Addicts Top 60 Favourite Reads of 2009 is courtesy of Eric Forbes Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books

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