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The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2009

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#1

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
by Larsson, Stieg
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Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading... more info...

#2

Eat, Pray, Love
by Gilbert, Elizabeth
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A NY Times Notable Book. In her early 30s, the author had everything a modern American woman could want - the husband, the country home, the successful career. Add to this a feeling of being consumed by... more info...

#3

Girl Who Played With Fire
by Larsson, Stieg
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In the thrilling follow-up to THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Lisbeth Salander, the troubled genius hacker takes center stage. Before the story plays out, she is forced to face her dark past and attempt... more info...

#4

Catching Fire
by Collins, Suzanne
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In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by... more info...

#5

Tinkers
by Harding, Paul
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished... more info...

#6

Super Sad True Love Story
by Shteyngart, Gary
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The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, gives readers a hilarious and heartfelt new novel, in which he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's... more info...

#7

Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
by Larsson, Stieg
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Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Stieg Larsson's two previous novels - is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one:... more info...

#8

Catcher in the Rye
by Salinger, J.D.
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This coming-of-age novel broke the sound barrier for its generation, and for generations of readers since its first publication. Holden Caulfield's quest for identity resonates with a heartfelt and imaginative... more info...

#9

Never Let Me Go
by Ishiguro, Kazuo
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A Gothic tour de force of innocence, knowledge and loss. As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of... more info...

#10

Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Lehrer, Jonah
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Taking a group of nineteenth- and twentieth century artists - a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novels - Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that... more info...

#11

Chronic City
by Lethem, Jonathan
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Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life - permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancee, Janice Trumbull,... more info...

#12

I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Crosley, Sloane
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From accidentally despoiling an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History to siccing the cops on the wrong neighbor, Sloane Crosley can do no right, despite the best of intentions - or perhaps because of... more info...

#13

Let the Great World Spin
by McCann, Colum
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National Book Award Winner. This ambitious, brilliant novel turns a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. It is August 1974, and a mysterious... more info...

#14

Eating Animals
by Foer, Jonathan Safran
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The acclaimed novelist (Everything Is Illulminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) travels to the darkest corners of our dining habits. Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat,.every... more info...

#15

Infinite Jest
by Wallace, David Foster
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Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the most endearingly dysfunctional families in contemporary fiction, 'Infinite Jest' explores essential questions about what... more info...

#16

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Murakami, Haruki
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This Kafkaesque novel is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories... more info...

#17

Farewell to Arms
by Hemingway, Ernest
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In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal... more info...

#18

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Lee, Harper
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1961. Never out of print since its publication, the novel is the inspiring tale of a young girl's triumph over bigotry and injustice in the Depression-era South.... more info...

#19

Little History of the World
by Gombrich, E.H.
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First published in 1935 when the author was twenty-six years old. In forty concise chapters, the acclaimed historian tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the advent of the atomic bomb. In... more info...

#20

One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
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An Oprah's Book Club selection. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics). The brilliant, surreal story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia... more info...