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The Best Books of 2009
Omnivoracious —
... Sorry to make you wait all weekend long (which I'm sure explains why you ate that whole bag of Kit Kats from the trick-or-treat bowl), but today our Top 100 is complete with the announcement of our editors' top 10 books of 2009. Today we also unveil our entire Best of 2009 store on Amazon, which, along with that Top 100, includes our top 10 picks in almost two dozen categories as well as our customer bestsellers in all those categories too. We'll have more to say on many of those lists in the weeks to come, but for now, let's focus on our ...
Omni Daily News
Omnivoracious —
... What a Year: We've just announced our Best of 2009 lists today, led by Colum McCann's stunning novel, ...
Jonathan Safran Foer on Eating Animal Products
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat —
... Jonathan Safran Foer talked about his move from vegetarianism to a vegan lifestyle: "my basic stance on the issue is, I'd say, forgiving--but still quite firm. I am transitioning to veganism, and I don't like, run home and eat 1,000 eggs or something."
Paul Auster talked about a time when all aspiring poets wanted to start their own magazines.
Beating the annual listmakers by a month, Amazon.com unveiled the Best Books of 2009.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
Bookmarks: Suing the Nook, profitable poetry, and more
Quill & Quire —
... According to Amazon, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin is the best book of 2009. Also on its list of the top 10 books of 2009: Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder; Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall; Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín; Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl; Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollstead; The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson; The City & The City by China Miéville; Stitches by David Small; and The Boy ...
Around the interwebs: video edition
Abby (the) Librarian —
... the last one was so much fun. Exactly where is the line between Middle Grade and YA Fiction? MiG Writers try to answer that question. As a blogger who has served on the Cybils YA Fiction panel (last year) and the Middle Grade Fiction panel (this year), I can tell you that the line is often blurry. Thanks to Confessions of a Bibliovore for the link. Best of 2009 lists! They are starting to come out of the woodwork. Check out Amazon's Best of 2009 list and PW's Best of 2009 list. Thanks to A Fuse #8 ...
Smugglers’ Stash & News
The Book Smugglers —
... and Amazon have released their best books of 2009 lists. Though I’m stoked that a graphic novel cracked PW’s top ten list, it’s slightly disturbing that not a single female author made the list. Also disturbing is the fact that we have not read (nor have even really heard of) any of the titles on the top 10 list! But in the Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, Mass Market Best of Lists, there are some familiar faces including: ...
End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup
Omnivoracious —
... Amazon: Best of 2009. Not to miss out on the fun, we also released our best kids' books of the year, as part of our big ol', not-to-be-missed Best of 2009 store. You'll find ...
Tuesday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop —
... Williams’ debut collection, Poems (most of which were “inadvertently burnt”) fetch a handsome price. (Bookride)
Matthew Flamm reports that Amazon flew a dozen top New York agents to Seattle to “play down its Darth Vader image”. (Crain’s New York Business)
Stuart Jeffries looks at how Waterstone’s killed bookselling. (The Guardian)
Speaking of Amazon, it’s ‘Top 100′ mania over there. (Amazon)
Wendy Werris offers a Southern California view of National ...
The 2009 National Book Award Winners
Omnivoracious —
... , but here's a quick wrapup of the winners, which include, we're thrilled to say, our own choice for the Best Book of 2009, Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann's tender ensemble novel of New York City at the moment of Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. The ...
Go Ahead, Judge: The Best Book Covers of 2009
Omnivoracious —
... to our Magazines team, which built a sleek and fun voting widget to help them choose the best magazine covers of the year (here's their landing page--the widget itself lives no more now that the voting is over), we were able to do the same to open up customer voting for the best book covers of 2009. And so we narrowed down our favorite covers of the year to 60 nominees in ten categories, and now the rest is up to you.
You can find a link to the best covers voting on our Best Books of 2009 page, but if you're in a hurry, you can go straight to the voting ...
