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Book awards: Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times

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Titles	Order
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain	2009
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey	2009
American journeys by Don Watson	2009
American pastoral by Philip Roth	2009
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird	2009
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford	2009
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman	2009
The Bear by William Faulkner	2009
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan	2009
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr	2009
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan	2009
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín	2009
City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte	2009
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes	2009
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper	2009
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen	2009
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick	2009
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery	2009
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley	2009
God: A Biography by Jack Miles	2009
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child	2009
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor	2009
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden	2009
Kim by Rudyard Kipling	2009
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman	2009
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst	2009
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright	2009
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn	2009
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie	2009
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson	2009
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid	2009
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi	2009
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris	2009
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely	2009
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang by Zhao Ziyang	2009
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc	2009
Regeneration by Pat Barker	2009
Senator Joe McCarthy by Richard H. Rovere	2009
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe	2009
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin	2009
Underground by Haruki Murakami	2009
Underworld by Don DeLillo	2009
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry	2009
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis	2009
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope	2009
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus	2009
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne	2009
Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler	2009
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks	2009

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