San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year2009

Given by San Francisco Chronicle

Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
100 Works 146,634 Books 7,008 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Biography (6), Essay/Criticism (19), Fiction (598), Fiction/Poetry (108), Historical Fiction (3), History (15), Journalism/nonfiction (9), Memoir (16), Non-fiction (2), Nonficion (5), Nonfiction (539), Science Fiction (1), Short stories (19), No Category (151)
Years:
All, 2023 (14), 2022 (27), 2021 (15), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (97), 2015 (94), 2014 (100), 2013 (100), 2012 (99), 2011 (99), 2010 (99), 2009 (100), 2008 (100), 2007 (128), 2006 (121), 2005 (128), 2004 (84), 2003 (64)
WorkCategoryYear
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction2009
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Fiction2009
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Fiction2009
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
Fiction2009
The Way through Doors by Jesse Ball
Fiction2009
The Women by T.C. Boyle
Fiction2009
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Fiction2009
The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
Fiction2009
The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb by R. Crumb
Fiction2009
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
Fiction2009
Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
Fiction2009
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
Fiction2009
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
Fiction2009
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Fiction2009
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Fiction2009
Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
Fiction2009
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Fiction2009
The Believers by Zoë Heller
Fiction2009
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
Fiction2009
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
Fiction2009
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Fiction2009
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction2009
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
Fiction2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Fiction2009
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Fiction2009
Spoiled: Stories by Caitlin Macy
Fiction2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Fiction2009
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Fiction2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Fiction2009
All the Living by C. E. Morgan
Fiction2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Fiction2009
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Fiction2009
Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya Nelson
Fiction2009
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
Fiction2009
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Fiction2009
Drift: Stories by Victoria Patterson
Fiction2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Fiction2009
Woodsburner by John Pipkin
Fiction2009
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Fiction2009
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis
Fiction2009
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Fiction2009
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Fiction2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Fiction2009
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
Fiction2009
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Fiction2009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
Fiction2009
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Fiction2009
Lowboy by John Wray
Fiction2009
A Happy Marriage: A Novel by Rafael Yglesias
Fiction2009
Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
Fiction2009
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day by Diane Ackerman
Nonfiction2009
Open: An Autobiography by André Agassi
Nonfiction2009
Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir by Diana Athill
Nonfiction2009
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta
Nonfiction2009
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
Nonfiction2009
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
Nonfiction2009
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter
Nonfiction2009
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
Nonfiction2009
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Nonfiction2009
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Nonfiction2009
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
Nonfiction2009
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
Nonfiction2009
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
Nonfiction2009
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Nonfiction2009
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nonfiction2009
The Music Room by William Fiennes
Nonfiction2009
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Nonfiction2009
This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman
Nonfiction2009
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad Friend
Nonfiction2009
The Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon
Nonfiction2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon
Nonfiction2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
Nonfiction2009
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Nonfiction2009
Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Conover Heller
Nonfiction2009
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Nonfiction2009
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nonfiction2009
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley
Nonfiction2009
True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
Nonfiction2009
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Nonfiction2009
Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints by Tom Killion
Nonfiction2009
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
Nonfiction2009
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Nonfiction2009
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
Nonfiction2009
Down at the Docks by Rory Nugent
Nonfiction2009
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language by Arika Okrent
Nonfiction2009
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
Nonfiction2009
The Last Empress, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula
Nonfiction2009
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement by Miriam Pawel
Nonfiction2009
Closing Time: A Memoir by Joe Queenan
Nonfiction2009
Methland by Nick Reding
Nonfiction2009
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks by Robin Romm
Nonfiction2009
Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric W. Sanderson
Nonfiction2009
Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss
Nonfiction2009
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
Nonfiction2009
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka
Nonfiction2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Nonfiction2009
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream) by Kevin Starr
Nonfiction2009
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
Nonfiction2009
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
Nonfiction2009
Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp by Xianhui Yang
Nonfiction2009

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