I always think it’s a bit *ahem* manufactured when the Top 100 books of 2009 are announced with 16.66% of the year still left to go, but I guess that’s how you help drum up holiday sales. Anyways, Amazon announced its top 100 Books of the Year today.
The full list is here
Here are the top 10:
- “Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann
- “Strength in What Remains” by Tracy Kidder
- “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel
- “Brooklyn” by Colm Toibin
- “Beautiful Creatures” by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
- “Crazy for the Storm” by Norman Ollestad
- “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Steig Larsson
- “The City & The City” by China Meiville
- “Stitches” by David Small
- “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” by William Kamkwamba
As usual, most of those book are totally unknown to me. The only one I’ve read is “The City & The City” by China Mieville and I’d highly recommend that as a very novel melding of speculative fiction and mystery. In the top 100, the only other book I’ve read (I’m actually about 2/3 of the way into) is “Inherent Vice,” by Thomas Pynchon – but you’d probably expect that of me seeing as how I will buy every Pynchon novel the minute it comes out and swallow the thing down like a python and a small child.
Take a look at the list of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2009: Editor Picks
and tell me what I need to read next. What am I missing out on?
