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Publishers Weekly has released their best children’s books of 2009. I’ve only read one, Catching Fire, which I did enjoy. Boy, all of these look good. Have you read any that you highly recommend?

My list below is only the fiction titles. Nonfiction titles and picture books can be found at Publishers Weekly.

Wintergirls. Laurie Halse Anderson. (more info)
Going Bovine. Libba Bray. (more info)
Fire. Kristin Cashore. (more info)
Catching Fire. Suzanne Collins. (more info)
If I Stay. Gayle Forman. (more info)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. Jacqueline Kelly. (more info)
Purple Heart. Patricia McCormick. (more info)
The Ask and the Answer. Patrick Ness. (more info)
A Season of Gifts. Richard Peck. (more info)
When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead. (more info)
Shiver. Maggie Stiefvater. (more info)
Marcelo in the Real World. Francisco X. Stork. (more info)
Tales from Outer Suburbia. Shaun Tan. (more info)
Lips Touch: Three Times. Laini Taylor, illus. by Jim Di Bartolo. (more info)
The Uninvited. Tim Wynne-Jones. (more info)

Source: Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704596.html

Amazon released their 2009 Top 10 editorial picks today. I’ve read one title, Brooklyn. You can see 11-100 on my previous post.

1. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
2. Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
4. Brooklyn, Colm Tóibin
5. Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (coming out in December)
6. Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad
7. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
8. The City & the City, China Mieville
9. Stitches, David Small
10. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba

(Courtesy: Omnivoracious)

(Please note: When I originally saw this list at PW, it stopped after True Compass. When I looked again at the source page on 11/3/09, the list had more titles on it. I have since added those titles.)

PW Top 10

• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
• Await Your Reply: A Novel by Dan Chaon
• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
• Big Machine by Victor LaValle
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
• Stitches by David Small
• Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Fiction

• The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
• The Fate of Katherine Carr by Thomas H. Cook
• Spooner by Pete Dexter
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
• Ravens by George Dawes Green
• Tinkers by Paul Harding
• The Believers by Zoë Heller
• The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
• How to Sell by Clancy Martin
• New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro
• The Last War by Ana Menendez
• Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
• Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
• The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage
• Drood by Dan Simmons
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
• Once the Shore by Paul Yoon

Poetry

• Chronic by D.A. Powell
• Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker
• The Bitter Withy by Donald Revell
• The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy
• Upgraded to Serious by Heather McHugh

Mystery

• Bryant and May on the Loose by Christopher Fowler
• The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
• The Dark Horseby Craig Johnson
• The Silent Hour by Michael Koryta
• Londongrad by Reggie Nadelson
• The Lord of Death by Eliot Pattison
• The Cloud Pavilionby Laura Joh Rowland

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow
• The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
• The City & the City by China Miéville
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Mass Market

• Captive of Sin by Anna Campbell
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• A Dark Love by Margaret Carroll
• Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
• Hunt at the Well of Eternity by Gabriel Hunt, as told to James Reasoner

Comics

• Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark
• Driven by Lemons by Josh Cotter
• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna
• The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre
• Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
• A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• You’ll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man by Carol Tyler
• Pluto by Naoki Urasawa

Nonfiction

• Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater by Frank Bruni
• Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets by Cadillac Man
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
• Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
• Food for Thought, Thought for Food edited by Richard Hamilton and Vincente Todolo
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
• The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
• True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
• Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
• Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
• Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
• Gabriel García Márquez by Gerald Martin
• Green Metropolis by David Owen
• Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life by Daniel Asa Rose
• Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
• Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton
• Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965 by Sam Stephenson
• Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
• Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 by Gordon S. Wood

Religion

• Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir by Susan E. Isaacs
• The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
• The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Our Pain by Scott Cairns
• Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
• The Future of Faith by Harvey Cox
• Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
• In Due Season: A Man’s Life by Paul Wilkes
• Judas: A Biography by Susan Gubar
• Muslims in America: A Short History by Edward E. Curtis IV
• Rashi by Elie Wiesel

Lifestyle

• Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy by Lidia Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
• Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan
• Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
• Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone by Penelope Leach Gourmet Today by Ruth Reichl

Source: Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html