The New York Times Notable Books of the YearFiction & Poetry2009

Given by The New York Times Book Review

Other Names: The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of Noteworthy Titles, The New York Times Book Review's Books for Christmas (1933-1941), The New York Times Book Review's Christmas Checklist (1947-1948), The New York Times Book Review's A Christmas Guide for Readers (1949 - 1968), The New York Times Book Review's Other Outstanding Books of the Year (1969), The New York Times Book Review's A Selected List From Books of the Year (1970), The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of the Best Books of the Year (1978-1979), A New York Times Notable Book
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The New York Times Book Review's annual list of "Notable Books", currently numbering 100.


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Categories:
All, American Scene (36), Art (13), Art & Architecture (2), Art, Music & Popular Culture (6), Arts, Drama, Music (8), Autobiography & Biography (75), Belles Lettres (3), Biography (13), Children's Books (8), Crime (1), Current Affairs & Social Comment (10), Education (4), Essays & Criticism (17), Essays and Belles-Lettres (1), Essays, Letters & Criticism (5), Fiction (336), Fiction & Poetry (402), Fiction - Comics/Graphics (2), Fiction - Poetry (1), Fiction - Stories (16), Fiction - Thrillers (5), Fiction/Poetry (53), History (5), Humor (2), Music (1), Nonfiction (602), Nonfiction - Biography (2), Nonfiction - Biography - Current Affairs (1), Nonfiction - Biography - History (4), Nonfiction - Biography - Sports (2), Nonfiction - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Current Affairs (8), Nonfiction - Essays (4), Nonfiction - Foreign Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History (28), Nonfiction - History - Current Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History - Memoir (1), Nonfiction - History - Sports (1), Nonfiction - Memoir (54), Nonfiction - Memoir - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Science (10), Nonfiction - Science - History (1), Nonfiction - Sociology (1), Nonfiction - Sociology - Current Affairs (1), Poetry (10), Politics (1), Religion (18), Science & Social Science (1), Science Fiction (1), Thriller (1), Travel, Adventure (2), No Category (197)
Years:
All, 2017 (50), 2016 (49), 2013 (1), 2012 (53), 2011 (3), 2010 (48), 2009 (45), 2008 (48), 2007 (50), 2006 (48), 2005 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1996 (1)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent
WorkYear
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
2009
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
2009
Invisible by Paul Auster
2009
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
2009
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
2009
Amateur Barbarians: A Novel by Robert Cohen
2009
Typhoon by Charles Cumming
2009
The Sky Below by Stacey D'Erasmo
2009
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
2009
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
2009
Don't Cry: Stories by Mary Gaitskill
2009
Dearest Creature by Amy Gerstler
2009
A Village Life by Louise Glück
2009
Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon
2009
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
2009
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2009
The Art Student's War by Brad Leithauser
2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
2009
Family Album by Penelope Lively
2009
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2009
The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
2009
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
2009
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
2009
How It Ended: New and Collected Stories by Jay McInerney
2009
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
2009
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
2009
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
2009
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
2009
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
2009
Nothing Right: Short Stories by Antonya Nelson
2009
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
2009
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
2009
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
2009
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
2009
One D.O.A. One on the Way by Mary Robison
2009
Follow Me by Joanna Scott
2009
Do Not Deny Me: Stories by Jean Thompson
2009
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
2009
Love and Summer by William Trevor
2009
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
2009
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
2009
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
2009
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
2009
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
2009
Once the Shore by Paul Yoon
2009

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