New York Times®: Dwight Garner's Best Books 2009
Holiday 2009

Farm City
Novella Carpenter
(Hardcover, Penguin Press HC, The)

Lords of the Sea
John R. Hale
(Hardcover, Viking Adult)

Tall Man
Chloe Hooper
(Hardcover, Scribner)

Tears in the Darkness
Michael Norman; Elizabeth M. Norman
(Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Family Properties
Beryl Satter
(Hardcover, Metropolitan Books)

When Skateboards Will Be Free
Said Sayrafiezadeh
(Hardcover, The Dial Press)

A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit
(Hardcover, Viking Adult)

The First Tycoon
T.J. Stiles
(Hardcover, Knopf)

Cold
Bill Streever
(Hardcover, Little, Brown and Company)

Catching Fire
Richard Wrangham
(Hardcover, Basic Books)