The Best of Oh Nine: Books*

As with yesterday's list, the asterisk is in the post title for a very good reason—namely, to tip you off that the titles mentioned below didn't necessarily come out in 2009. They are, rather, things we read and dug over the past 12 months. Apologies for the relative brevity of the list, but our most common reaction to books this year was "meh." Perhaps that's because, due to the nature of our polymathic work, we often read books because they contain esoteric information, not because they're ...