Best books of 2009

The New Yorker's writers list some of their favorite books of 2009.

Ann Kingman, Michael Kindness and the Books on the Nightstand listeners list some of their own favorites from the past year.

My hope was to include a list of my own favorite books of 2009, but it occurs to me that I read only a handful of books this year that were actually published in 2009, and while I enjoyed most of them, they were not my favorite books of the year.  My paltry list includes:

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