read. booksellers - best reads of 2009

Best Read Books of 2009
from the staff of read. Booksellers
The thrill of being able to steer customers to read some of the great books we ourselves have loved is the best part of our jobs. Let's take a look at what the stellar books of last year were for our cast of booksellers and customers.

Vicky

The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
Breath – Tim Winton
My Abandonment – Peter Rock
Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
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John

   fiction
Last Night in Twisted River – John Irving
My Abandonment – Peter Rock
Homer & Langley – E.L. Doctorow
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
Out Stealing Horses – Per Petterson

   nonfiction
The Forever War – Dexter Filkins
The Lost City of Z – David Grann
Socialism: A Very Short Introduction – Michael Newman
Losing Mum and Pup – Christopher Buckley
Newton and the Counterfeiter – Thomas Levenson
A Terrible Splendor – Marshall Jon Fisher
Somewhere Near the End – Diana Athill
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Anthony
   fiction
The Children’s Book – A.S. Byatt
My Abandonment – Peter Rock
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
Slover’s Mistake – Nick Laird
Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger

   nonfiction
City Boy – Edward White
D-Day – Antony Beevor
Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life – Carol Sklenicka
Churchill – Paul Johnson
The Annotated Wind in the Willows – edited by Annie Gauger
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Sherry
   fiction
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Last Chinese Chef – Nicole Mones
The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
The Laws of Harmony – Judith Ryan Hendricks
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks

   nonfiction
The Gardner Heist – Ulrich Boser
Amish Peace – Suzanne Woods Fisher
Service Included – Phoebe Damrosch
Fat Envelope Frenzy – Joie Jager-Hyman
Real Life at the White House – John Whitcomb