Best Books Read in 2009
Teen Fiction
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Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins - Great for Teens
and Adults
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L.A.
Meyer - Bloody Jack Adventures - Good series to listen to
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
by E. Lockhart
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
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The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen
Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
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The Graveyard by Neil Gaiman
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Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Fantasy and Science
Fiction
- Fragment
by Warren Fahy - Michael Crichton Style
- The
Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
- Retrieval
Artist Series - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Here
Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
Audiobooks
- Adriana
Trigiani books
- Reader:
Ilyana Kadushin
Biographies and
Memoirs
- Helping
me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a year on th brink of
the Comfort Zone by Beth Lisick
- Home:
A Memoir of My Early Years
- Come
Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through and Back by Claire Fontaine
and Mia Fontaine
- Rolling
Away: My Agony with Ecstasy by Lynn Marie Smith
- High
on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips
- Prairie
Tale: A Memoir by Melissa Gilbert
- My
Booky Wood: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand
- Stolen
Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage
Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
- Crazy
for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
- Big
Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life by Tim Russert
- A Pearl in the Storm:
How I Found My Heart in the Middle of Ocean by Tori Murden Mcclure
- Four
Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea by Kira Salak
- Losing
Mom an Pup by Christopher Buckley
Mainstream Fiction
- The
Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
- Loving
Frank by Nancy Horan
- Brick
Lane by Monica Ali
- The
Commitments by Roddy Doyle
- A Most
Wanted Man by John Le Carre
- The Family
Man by Elinor Lipman
- The
Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
- Four
Freedoms by John Crowley
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Last Night in the Twisted River by John Irvings
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The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
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Discworld by Terry Pratchett
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Author: Steven Johnson - The Ghost Map
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The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
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Border Songs
and The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingslover
Mystery/Suspense
- Rebecca
by Daphne DuMaurier
- On
What Grounds (Coffee Mysteries) by Cleo Coyle
- Beat
the Reaper by Josh Bazell
- Get
Real by Donald Westlake
- The
Likeness by Tana French
- The
Blonde by Duane Swierczynski
- Jane
Whitfield Novels by Thomas Perry
- The
Signal by Ron Carlson
- Whisper
to the Blood (A Kate Shugak Novel) by Dana Stabenow
- Charlaine
Harris
- Assassination
Vacation
- Soulless
by Gail Carriger
- The
Little Stranger by Sarah Waters