Library Journal - Best Books 2009
Access to Life, by Jeffrey Sachs
The Man Who Loved
Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of
Literary Obsession, by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Soul of the Age: A
Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare, by Jonathan
Bate
NurtureShock: New
Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
The Children's
Book, by A.S. Byatt
Spooner, by Pete
Dexter
The Strangest Man:
The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, by Graham
Farmelo
Wanting, by
Richard Flanagan
Tinkers, by Paul
Harding
The Hanging of
Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty, by
William J. Harris
Ayn Rand and the
World She Made, by Anne C. Heller
The Age of Wonder:
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of
Science, by Richard Holmes
A Strange Eventful
History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their
Remarkable Families, by Michael Holroyd
The Book of Night
Women, by Marlon James
Knowledge in the
Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past, by Jonathan D.
Jansen
It's Beginning To
Hurt: Stories, by James Lasdun
Newton and the
Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest
Scientist, by Thomas Levenson
Waiting on a Train:
The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service—A Year Spent Riding
Across America, by James McCommons
Wolf Hall, by
Hilary Mantel
The Last Prince of
the Mexican Empire, by C.M. Mayo
All the Living,
by C.E. Morgan
Short Girls, by
Bich Minh Nguyen
Up from History: The
Life of Booker T. Washington, by Robert J. Norrell
Lark and
Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips
Mannahatta: A
Natural History of New York City, by Eric W. Sanderson &
Markley Boyer
Cooking Dirty: A
Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, by Jason
Sheehan
The Sisters of
Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels, by
Janet Soskice
The Hawk and the
Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War,
by Nicholas Thompson
This Is Where I
Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper
A Short History of
Women, by Kate Walbert
First as Tragedy,
Then as Farce, by Slavoj Zizek
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