Top 10 Books of 2009 (Girls Need Not Apply)

By now, I imagine many of you have seen Publishers Weekly's roundup of the ten very best books of 2009, a list which just happens to only include male authors.  Sure, the girls made it into some of the secondary lists, but the ten best?  All boys.

I would also check out Lizzie Skurnick's response at Politics Daily, which included this bit from PW: "We wanted the list to reflect what we thought were the top 10 books of the year with no other consideration . . . We ignored gender and genre and w...