Best Books of 2009

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Tangle Box by Terry Brooks
• Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry
• The case of the blonde bonanza by Erle Stanley Gardner
• I hope I shall arrive soon by Philip K. Dick
• The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Possession by A. S. Byatt
• Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
• The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
• The Armageddon Rag by George R. R. Martin
• Live Wire by Harlan Coben
• Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke