Best Reads of 2009 

In an effort to provide you with the very best books of 2009, we've compiled a listing from two of the most well known and reputable sources in the publishing industry today: The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. If you have read any of these books and want to share your thoughts about them with others, you can leave comments below. 

1. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan. Random. Non-fiction. A Publishers Weekly pick....More

2. A Gate At the Stairs by Lorrie Moore. Alferd A Knopf. Fiction. A New York Times pick....More

3. A Short History Of Women by Kate Walbert. Sribner. Fiction. A New York Times pick....More

4. Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon. Ballantine. Fiction. A Publishers Weekly pick....More

6. Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want by Maile Meloy. Riverhead Books. Fiction. A New York Times pick. ...More

7. Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey. Knopf. Non-fiction. A Publishers Weekly pick. ...More

8. Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem. Doubleday. Fiction. A New York Times pick....More

9. Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel by Jeannette Walls. Sribner. Fiction. A New York Times pick....More

10. In Other Room, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin. Norton. Fiction. A Publishers Weekly pick....More

11. Jeff In Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer. Pantheon. Fiction. A Publishers Weekly pick....More

12. LIT: A Memoir by Mary Karr. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. Non Fiction. A New York Times pick....More

13. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World by Liaquat Ahamed.The Penguin Press. Non Fiction. A New York Times pick. ...More

14. Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka. Scribner. Non Fiction. A New York Times pick....More

15. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford. Penguin. Non Fiction.  A Publishers Weekly pick. ...More

16. Stitches by David Small. Norton. Non Fiction. A Publishers Weekly pick....More

17. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes. Pantheon. Fiction. A New York Times and Publishers Weekly pick. ...More

18. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Non Fiction.A New York Times pick....More

19. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. Doubleday. Non-Fiction.  A Publishers Weekly pick. ...More