New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009 (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating — 79,607 ratings
2.
Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin 3.96 avg rating — 108,628 ratings
3.
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 130,989 ratings
4.
Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,738 ratings
5.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 227,539 ratings
6.
The Lacuna
The Lacuna 3.82 avg rating — 73,040 ratings
7.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon 3.90 avg rating — 106,828 ratings
8.
Invisible
Invisible 3.74 avg rating — 22,795 ratings
9.
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor 3.97 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
10.
A Gate at the Stairs
A Gate at the Stairs 3.18 avg rating — 18,669 ratings
11.
The Good Soldiers
The Good Soldiers 4.22 avg rating — 8,593 ratings
12.
The Museum of Innocence
The Museum of Innocence 3.78 avg rating — 36,404 ratings
13.
Losing Mum and Pup
Losing Mum and Pup 3.85 avg rating — 3,037 ratings
14.
Open
Open 4.32 avg rating — 139,815 ratings
15.
Love and Summer
Love and Summer 3.59 avg rating — 4,347 ratings
16.
The Little Stranger
The Little Stranger 3.57 avg rating — 58,373 ratings
17.
Chronic City
Chronic City 3.54 avg rating — 9,053 ratings
18.
Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor 3.56 avg rating — 11,311 ratings
19.
The Case for God
The Case for God 3.85 avg rating — 9,250 ratings
20.
Lit
Lit
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 27,991 ratings
21.
American Rust
American Rust 3.72 avg rating — 13,220 ratings
22.
The Anthologist (The Paul Chowder Chronicles #1)
The Anthologist (The Paul Chowder Chronicles #1) 3.76 avg rating — 4,069 ratings
23.
Asterios Polyp
Asterios Polyp 4.22 avg rating — 28,560 ratings
24.
Half Broke Horses
Half Broke Horses 4.09 avg rating — 171,097 ratings
25.
Family Album
Family Album 3.45 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
26.
Too Much Happiness: Stories
Too Much Happiness: Stories 3.83 avg rating — 24,579 ratings
27.
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It 3.83 avg rating — 6,308 ratings
28.
Await Your Reply
Await Your Reply
by: Dan Chaon
3.54 avg rating — 16,142 ratings
29.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned 3.88 avg rating — 9,091 ratings
30.
The Song Is You
The Song Is You 3.27 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
31.
Every Man Dies Alone
Every Man Dies Alone 4.27 avg rating — 35,343 ratings
32.
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places 3.62 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
33.
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster 3.94 avg rating — 3,771 ratings
34.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World 4.03 avg rating — 16,187 ratings
35.
The Confessions of Edward Day
The Confessions of Edward Day 3.49 avg rating — 509 ratings
36.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein 3.33 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
37.
Don't Cry
Don't Cry 3.63 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
38.
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall 3.51 avg rating — 31,552 ratings
39.
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Ayn Rand and the World She Made 3.85 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
40.
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater
Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater 3.70 avg rating — 5,854 ratings
41.
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression 3.28 avg rating — 450 ratings
42.
Cheever: A Life
Cheever: A Life 4.18 avg rating — 729 ratings
43.
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found 4.10 avg rating — 5,116 ratings
43.
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work 3.75 avg rating — 10,822 ratings
45.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science 3.97 avg rating — 9,815 ratings
46.
A Short History of Women
A Short History of Women 3.07 avg rating — 3,108 ratings
47.
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town 3.69 avg rating — 6,840 ratings
48.
My Paper Chase
My Paper Chase 3.91 avg rating — 252 ratings
49.
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector 4.28 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
50.
How it Ended
How it Ended 3.49 avg rating — 961 ratings
51.
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life 4.24 avg rating — 693 ratings
52.
Lark & Termite
Lark & Termite 3.44 avg rating — 4,167 ratings
53.
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders 3.75 avg rating — 7,113 ratings
54.
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 3.48 avg rating — 3,598 ratings
54.
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent 3.83 avg rating — 7,581 ratings
56.
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker 3.64 avg rating — 445 ratings
57.
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 4.15 avg rating — 5,431 ratings
58.
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt 3.90 avg rating — 8,806 ratings
59.
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan 4.15 avg rating — 8,711 ratings
59.
The Invention of Air
The Invention of Air 3.82 avg rating — 3,247 ratings
61.
Louis D. Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis 4.03 avg rating — 420 ratings
62.
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City 3.65 avg rating — 4,033 ratings
63.
The Mercy Papers
The Mercy Papers 3.77 avg rating — 831 ratings
63.
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3) 4.39 avg rating — 5,927 ratings
65.
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity 3.35 avg rating — 280 ratings
66.
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America 4.07 avg rating — 2,354 ratings
67.
Amateur Barbarians
Amateur Barbarians 3.26 avg rating — 129 ratings
68.
The Art Student's War
The Art Student's War 3.27 avg rating — 347 ratings
69.
Dearest Creature
Dearest Creature 4.03 avg rating — 384 ratings
69.
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
by: Larry Tye
4.07 avg rating — 2,844 ratings
71.
Do Not Deny Me
Do Not Deny Me 3.66 avg rating — 403 ratings
72.
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom 4.01 avg rating — 7,384 ratings
73.
Follow Me
Follow Me 3.19 avg rating — 495 ratings
73.
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original 4.31 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
75.
Generosity: An Enhancement
Generosity: An Enhancement 3.60 avg rating — 2,474 ratings
76.
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters 3.35 avg rating — 168 ratings
77.
Love and Obstacles
Love and Obstacles 3.83 avg rating — 1,476 ratings
78.
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
My Father's Tears and Other Stories 3.70 avg rating — 1,544 ratings
79.
Nothing Right
Nothing Right 3.85 avg rating — 460 ratings
80.
Once the Shore
Once the Shore
by: Paul Yoon
3.97 avg rating — 569 ratings
81.
One D.O.A., One on the Way
One D.O.A., One on the Way 3.49 avg rating — 464 ratings
82.
The Sky Below
The Sky Below 3.30 avg rating — 263 ratings
83.
Typhoon
Typhoon 3.92 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
84.
A Village Life
A Village Life 4.05 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
85.
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn 4.03 avg rating — 1,265 ratings
86.
City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s 3.73 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
87.
Closing Time
Closing Time 3.57 avg rating — 714 ratings
88.
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits 4.12 avg rating — 578 ratings
89.
The Evolution of God
The Evolution of God 3.94 avg rating — 7,924 ratings
90.
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon 3.88 avg rating — 814 ratings
91.
The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11
The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 3.61 avg rating — 174 ratings
92.
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme 4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings
93.
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic 3.74 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
94.
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China 3.77 avg rating — 491 ratings
95.
The Lost Child: A Mother's Story
The Lost Child: A Mother's Story 3.27 avg rating — 305 ratings
96.
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever 3.23 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
97.
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street 3.85 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
98.
Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD
Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD 3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
99.
The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny
The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny 3.40 avg rating — 357 ratings
100.
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present 4.06 avg rating — 5,588 ratings