Amazon's Best Books of the Year2009

Given by Amazon.com, Inc.

94 Works 320,696 Books 15,560 Reviews ½ 4.0
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Years:
All, 2023 (21), 2015 (1), 2012 (3), 2009 (94), 2008 (1), 2026 (2)
WorkOrder LabelYear
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
#12009
The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
#1002009
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 by Thomas E. Ricks
#112009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
#122009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
#132009
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
#142009
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
#162009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
#172009
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
#182009
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
#192009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
#22009
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
#202009
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
#212009
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
#222009
How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
#232009
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
#242009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
#252009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
#262009
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
#272009
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater by Frank Bruni
#282009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
#32009
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
#302009
Momofuku by David Chang
#312009
Open: An Autobiography by André Agassi
#322009
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
#332009
Spooner by Pete Dexter
#342009
The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons
#352009
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
#362009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
#372009
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
#382009
The Defector by Daniel Silva
#392009
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
#42009
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
#402009
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#412009
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
#422009
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
#432009
Tinkers by Paul Harding
#442009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
#452009
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
#462009
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
#472009
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
#482009
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
#492009
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
#52009
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
#502009
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
#512009
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
#522009
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
#532009
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
#542009
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
#552009
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
#562009
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy
#572009
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
#582009
The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch
#592009
Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
#62009
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
#602009
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
#612009
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
#622009
Everything Matters! by Jr. Ron Currie
#632009
Lowboy by John Wray
#642009
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
#652009
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
#672009
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
#682009
Columbine by Dave Cullen
#692009
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
#72009
Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric W. Sanderson
#702009
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
#712009
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett
#722009
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman
#732009
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
#742009
George Sprott: (1894-1975) by Seth
#752009
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
#772009
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff
#782009
Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle
#792009
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
#802009
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 by Sam Stephenson
#812009
Never Smile at a Monkey: And 17 Other Important Things to Remember by Steve Jenkins
#822009
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
#832009
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
#842009
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
#852009
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
#862009
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
#872009
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
#882009
The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard
#892009
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
#92009
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
#902009
American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
#912009
The BLDGBLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh
#922009
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
#932009
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
#942009
The American Painter Emma Dial: A Novel by Samantha Peale
#952009
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne
#962009
Imperial by William T. Vollmann
#972009
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
#982009
The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder and The Birth of the American Mafia by Mike Dash
#992009

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