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The votes are in for the most notable books of 2009! Based on reviews and editorial opinions from literary and publisher magazines here are some of the most notable books of the previous year.
Fiction

Amateur Barbarians
by Robert Cohen
F C679a

American Rust
by Philipp Meyer
F M6134a

The Anthologist
by Nicholson Baker
F B168a

Await Your Reply
by Dan Chaon
F C4615aw

Bad Things Happen
by Harry Dolan
M D659b

The Bishop's Man
by Linden MacIntyre
F M1528b

Blame
by Michelle Huneven
F H934b

The Calligrapher's Daughter
by Eugenia Kim
F K493c

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd
F A182ca

The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt
F B9933c

Chronic City
by Jonathan Lethem
F L647c

Commencement
by J. Courtney Sullivan
F S9492c

The Confessions of Edward Day
by Valerie Martin
F M3833c

The Cradle
by Patrick Somerville
F S696c

Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
F V496c

The Disappeared
by Kim Echlin
F E184d

Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
F F1944e

Exiles in the Garden
by Ward Just
F J96ex

An Expensive Education
by Nick McDonell
F M1347e

Fall
by Colin McAdam
F M1132f

Family Album
by Penelope Lively
F L784fa

The Family Man
by Elinor Lipman
F L764f

Far Bright Star
by Robert Olmstead
F O51f

Far North
by Marcel Theroux
F T4124f

February
by Lisa Moore
F M8223f

Fences in Breathing
by Nicole Brossard
F B874f

Follow Me
by Joanna Scott
F S4273f

Galore
by Michael Crummey
F C9562g

A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
F M8225g

Generation A
by Douglas Coupland
F C857g

Generosity : an Enhancement
by Richard Powers
F P8882ge

Get Real
by Donald E. Westlake
F W5292g

The Girl who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larsson
F L3346gp

The Glass Room
by Simon Mawer
F M462gr

The Golden Mean
by Annabel Lyon
F L9914g

Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
F W215h

A Happy Marriage
by Rafael Yglesias
F Y495h

The Heart Specialist
by Claire Holden Rothman
F R8465h

The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yoko Ogawa
F O342h

Invisible
by Paul Auster
F A934inv

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
by Geoff Dyer
F D9965j

Jericho's Fall
by Stephen L. Carter
F C325j

The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
F K552L

Lark and Termite
by Jayne Anne Phillips
F P561L

Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
F M1221L

Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
F C6233L

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
by Tiffany Baker
F B1687L

The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
F W331L

Love and Summer
by William Trevor
F T816Lo

The Missing
by Tim Gautreaux
F G277m

The Mistress of Nothing
by Kate Pullinger
F P9822m

The Museum of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk
F P185mu

Old City Hall
by Robert Rotenberg
F R8435o

One D.O.A., One on the Way
by Mary Robison
F R6664on

The Piano Teacher
by Janice Y.K. Lee
F L4784p

The Quickening Maze
by Adam Foulds
F F767q

Rhino Ranch
by Larry McMurtry
F M168r

Sacred Hearts
by Sarah Dunant
F D897s

Sag Harbor
by Colson Whitehead
F W592s

A Short History of Women
by Kate Walbert
F W151s

The Sky Below
by Stacey D'Erasmo
F D4272s

The Song is You
by Arthur Phillips
F P5582s

Spooner
by Pete Dexter
F D527s

Stripmalling
by Jon Paul Fiorentino
F F518s

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
M B811s

Too Much Happiness : stories
by Alice Munro
F M968t

The Vagrants
by Yiyun Li
F L693v

The Winter Vault
by Anne Michaels
F M6216w

Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
F M292w

The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
F A887y

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Non-Fiction

Ad Hoc at Home
by Thomas Keller
641.5 K29

Born Round : the Secret History of a Full-time Eater
by Frank Bruni
641.013 B896

The Boy in the Moon : a Father's Search for His Disabled Son
by Ian Brown
616.8588 B881b

The Boy who Harnessed the Wind : Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
363.757 K15

Bright-Sided : How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
306.0973 E33

Burmese Lessons : a Love Story
by Karen Connelly
915.91 C752

The Case for God
by Karen Armstrong
211 A736c

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
by Eric Siblin
787.4 S564

Cheever : a Life
by Blake Bailey
810.92 C515

Child Care Today : Getting it Right for Everyone
by Penelope Leach
362.712 L434

Closing Time : a Memoir
by Joe Queenan
92 Q3

Coal Black Heart : the Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled
by John DeMont
381.4224 D384

Columbine
by Dave Cullen
364.1523 C967

Corked
by Kathryn Borel
914.4 B731

Dancing in the Dark : a Cultural History of the Great Depression
by Morris Dickstein
973.91 D554

The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath : Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships
by Erika Ritter
304.27 R614

Dorothea Lange : a Life Beyond Limits
by Linda Gordon
770.92 L274g

Egg on Mao : the Story of an Ordinary Man who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship
by Denise Chong
951.058 L926c

The Evolution of God
by Robert Wright
200.9 W952

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War : Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan
355.0092 S379

The First Tycoon : the Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T.J. Stiles
338.76 V228s

Fordlandia : the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
by Greg Grandin
307.76 G753

The Future of Faith
by Harvey Cox
212.1 C877

The Good Soldiers
by David Finkel
956.70443 F499

Gourmet Today : More Than 1000 All-new Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen
by Ruth Reichl
641.59 G716t

Green Metropolis : why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are Keys to Sustainability
by David Owen
307.76 O97

Half the Sky : Turning Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
361.614 K92

Have a Little Faith : a True
Story

by Mitch Albom
212.1 A339

Horse Soldiers: the Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
by Doug Stanton
958.1047 S792

The Ice Passage: a True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
by Brian Payton
919.8 P347

In Fed we Trust : Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
by David Wessel
332.0423 W515

Judas : a Biography
by Susan Gubar
225.92 J92g

The Last Empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
by Hannah Pakula
951.042 C5532p

Lit : a Memoir
by Mary Karr
92 K185Li

Lords of Finance : the Bankers who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed
332.1 A285

Losing Mum and Pup : a Memoir
by Christopher Buckley
92 B9243

The Lost Child : a Mother's Story
by Julie Myerson
92 M9963

Louis D. Brandeis : a Life
by Melvin I. Urofsky
347.7326 B817u

The Mercy Papers : a Memoir of Three Weeks
by Robin Romm
155.937 R766

The Myth of the Rational Market: a History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox
332.6 F792

Not Yet : a Memoir of Living and Almost Dying
by Wayson Choy
92 C552

Open : an Autobiography
by Andre Agassi
796.342 A262

A Paradise Built in Hell: the Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disasters
by Rebecca Solnit
364.348 S688

The Poison King : the Life and Legend of Mithridates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
by Adrienne Mayor
939.33 M684m

Pops : a Life of Louis Armstrong
by Terry Teachout
781.65 A736t

Rashi
by Elie Wiesel
296.092 R224w

Shop Class as Soulcraft: an Inquiry into the Value of Work
by Matthew B. Crawford
331 C899

The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
by Janet Soskice
225.092 L673s

Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects our Health
by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie with Sarah Dopp
363.19 S657

The Strangest Man : the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by Graham Farmelo
530.092 D597f

Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
967.572 K46

Thelonious Monk : the Life and Times of an American Original
by Robin D. G. Kelley
781.65 M745k

Trauma Farm : a Rebel History of Rural Life
by Brian Brett
630.9 B845

True Compass : a Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy
973.92 K352

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
by Wade Davis
809.85 D265

The Weight of a Mustard Seed: the Intimate Life of an Iraqi Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny
by Wendell Steavenson 956.7044 J33s

Where Men Win Glory : the Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
796.332 T577k

Why This World : a Biography of Clarice Lispector
by Benjamin Moser
869.092 L771m

Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
by Jeff Rubin
338.2 R896

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
by Douglas Brinkley
973.911 R781b

Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen 304.663 G618

Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
976.335 E29

 

Notable Books 2009