Best Books of 2009: A List of Lists

Every year around this time newspapers, magazines, blogs, radio stations, you name it post their "Best Books of 2009." For the past week or so I've been reading through many such lists, compiling my own lists of "to read" and "to gift." The amount of lists out there can get overwhelming (just try googling "best books of 2009" and you'll see what I mean). So, instead of adding yet another list of favorite books to the pile, I thought I'd gift you with a composition list (in no particular order) of my top "Best Books of 2009" articles:

1) The LA Times: "Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry," and "Favorite nonfiction of 2009" (separate articles)

2) The New Yorker: "A Year's Reading"

3) The Christian Science Monitor: "Best books of 2009: fiction" and "Best books of 2009: nonfiction"

4) NPR: "Complete Holiday Book Recommendations 2009" (condensed version of many lists)

5) The New York Times: "The 10 Best Books of 2009" (or "100 Notable Books of 2009" for the ambitious readers out there)

6) GoodReads: "Best books of 2009" (a very democratic (and looong) list)

7) Publisher's Weekly: "Best Books of 2009"

8) The Economist: "Books of the Year: Page-turners" (lots of nonfiction sub-categories)

9) The Guardian: "Christmas Books" (various writers and "guests" pick one book they would gift from 2009)

10) Powell's Books' Puddly Award Winners and Nominees of 2009 (only 2 winners, but a list of 50 contenders!...plus you can fill your cart with goodies as you read) or Morrison's Gift Picks

These are just a few of many, so if you have any favorite lists you like to reference, please leave in the comments or email me!

Update: HTMLGIANT's Blake Butler ventured a "25 Important Books of the '00s" today--good stuff.