The 10 Best Books of 2009
Fiction
“Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It” By Maile Meloy, Riverhead Books
“Chronic City” By Jonathan Lethem, Doubleday
“A Gate at the Stairs” By Lorrie Moore, Alfred A. Knopf
“Half Broke Horses” By Jeannette Walls, Scribner
“A Short History of Women” By Kate Walbert, Scribner
Non fiction
“The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science” By Richard Holmes, Pantheon Books
“The Good Soldiers” By David Finkel, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
“Lit : A Memoir” By Mary Karr, Harper/HarperCollins Publisher
“Lords of Finance : The Bankers Who Broke the World” By Liaquat Ahamed,
The Penguin Press
“Raymond Carver : A Writer’s Life” By Carol Sklenicka, Scribner
Fonte: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Wednesday, December 9, 2009)
