Top 10 Book Titles for 2009

Now that 2009 is coming to a close, we’re going to start seeing a lot of lists: Top books, top movies, top websites and so forth. I’m not a big fan of these kind of lists because my personal list for any given year would be a lot different than the lists that some of these literary organizations release at the end of each year.

While there is still 2 months to go in 2009, the editors at Publishers Weekly has already released their Top 10 list. Here are the titles and authors that made the cut:

1. The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (Pantheon)

2. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon (Ballantine)

3. Big Machine by Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)

4. Cheever by Blake Bailey (Knopf)

5. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neil Sheehan (Random)

6. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (Norton)

7. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)

8. Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday)

9. Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press)

10. Stitches by David Small (Norton)

I don’t think these selections are in any particular order. They aren’t the books I’d choose, but that’s my opinion. I’ll try to put together my own personal Top 10 Books of 2009.

Do you agree with this list? Some? Not at all? Leave a comment below and share your opinion.

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