For Publishers Weekly annual best books list, they chose 100 from more than 50,000 volumes. This year they upped the ante with the top 10 list below. Check out Publishers Weekly top 100 books of 2009, divided by category: fiction, poetry, mystery, science fiction, mass market, comics, nonfiction, and religion. Visit PW…
Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey (Knopf)
Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Neil Sheehan (Random House)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin (Norton)
Big Machine
Victor LaValle (Spiegel & Grau)
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes (Pantheon)
Stitches
David Small (Norton)
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford (Penguin Press)
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)
Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann (Doubleday)
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