Year's best: Publishers Weekly today names its top 10 books of 2009:
1. Richard Holmes' The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science;
2. Dan Chaon's Await Your Reply;
3. Victor LaValle's Big Machine;
4. Blake Bailey's Cheever: A Life;
5. Neil Sheehan's A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon;
6. Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders;
7. Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi;
8. David Grann's The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon;
9. Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft;
10.and David Small's Stitches: A Memoir.
I will be checking out Await Your Reply soon. If you've read any of the above, please comment on this post with your thoughts.
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