End-of-the-Year Blogging: 2009 Lists | Books
Toward the end of every year, media outlets try their best to make “sense of it all,” usually by publishing lists — seminal and not-so-seminal events, ins and outs, ups and downs, what you missed, what you luckily avoided — ad infinitum, until our calendars are finally, and blissfully, turned to the new year.
So what’s a blog to do with all of these annoying lists? Well, of course, we point you to a few from time to time.
Here are some 2009 lists, in the book category:
- “What David Sedaris Read This Year,” from The New Yorker, the author’s list of audio and “eye”-books he absorbed in 2009.
- NPR’s Lynn Neary’s picks from 2009, for the book club set.
- From the New York Times, “The 10 Best Books of 2009” and, for the ambitious reader, “100 Notable Books of 2009.”
- The Washington Post killed its print edition of Book World in 2009, but nonetheless presents Jonathan Yardley’s favorites from this year.
- The Atlantic’s “Books of the Year.”
- The American Library Association’s “2009 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults.”
- Finally, The Guardian keeps it real by asking “What were your worst books of the decade?”