TIME Magazine's Best Books of 2009

Fiction

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

Nonfiction

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

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