‘Tis the season of best lists, so I’ll chime in with my own. It covers books I read this year, regardless of when they were published. I’ve divided it into fiction and nonfiction and provided publisher and date of publication.
FICTION
Arana, Maria. Cellophane. 2006. (Dial)
Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. 2009. (Nan A. Talese)
Boyle, T. Coraghessen. The Tortilla Curtain. 1995. (Viking)
Byatt, A.S. The Children’s Book. 2009. (Knopf)
Carleton, Jetta. Moonflower Vine. 2009 reprint of 1962 title. (HarperPerennial)
Grodstein, Lauren. A Friend of the Family. 2009. (Algonquin Books)
Hoffman, Eva. Appassionata. 2009. (Other Press)
Kline, Christina Baker. Bird in Hand. 2009. (Wm. Morrow)
Livesey, Margot. The House on Fortune Street. 2008. (Harper)
Moore, Lorrie. A Gate at the Stairs. 2009. (Knopf)
Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kittredge. 2008. (Random)
Petterson, Per. Out Stealing Horses. 2007 (Graywolf)
Robinson, Roxana. Cost. 2008. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Walbert, Kate. A Short History of Women. 2009. (Scribner)
NONFICTION
Alison, Jane. The Sisters Antipodes. 2009. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Austin, Paul. Something for the Pain: One Doctor’s Account of Life and Death in the ER. 2008. (W.W. Norton)
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun. 2009. (McSweeney’s)
Fiennes, William. The Music Room: A Memoir. 2009. (W.W. Norton)
Grann, David. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. 2009. (Doubleday)
Pollan, Michael. The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World. 2001. (Random House)
Rogers, Douglas. The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe. 2009. (Harmony)
Simon, Rachel. Building a Home With My Husband: A Journey Through the Renovation of Love. 2009. (Dutton)
Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir. 2009. (W.W. Norton)
Tamm, Jayanti. Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult. 2009. (Harmony)
Umrigar, Thrity. First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood. 2008 (HarperPerennial)
Warmbrunn, Erika. Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman’s Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China & Vietnam. 2001. (Mountaineers Books)
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