2009


Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
The Book Thief
The Graveyard Book
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Old Man's War by John ScalziThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganThe Road by Cormac McCarthyRevelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Classic Science Fiction - 2000-2009
342 books — 245 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeCharlotte's Web by E.B. WhiteThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
New York Times Bestsellers
234 books — 86 voters

Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareBlood Promise by Richelle MeadHunted by P.C. CastEvermore by Alyson Noel
Books for 2009
590 books — 2,404 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPaper Towns by John  GreenGraceling by Kristin CashoreThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
2009 Printz Contenders
67 books — 1,454 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsGraceling by Kristin CashoreThe Host by Stephenie MeyerThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanPaper Towns by John  Green
YALSA 2009 Best Books for Young Adults
86 books — 207 voters
Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsThe Help by Kathryn StockettCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareAn Echo in the Bone by Diana GabaldonBlood Promise by Richelle Mead
Best Books of 2009
1,772 books — 6,932 voters

Auberon Waugh
“ I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise. ...more ”
― Auberon Waugh

Noam Chomsky
“ Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable. ...more ”
― Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

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