My favorite books of 2009
Explore the best books of 2009 with this curated list of favorite picks, featuring standout titles like Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon and Nobody Move by Denis Johnson, plus sharp essays from Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman. Discover top 2009 fiction and must-reads from a memorable literary year.
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Inherent Vice
by Thomas Pynchon
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, and all Pynchon, "Inherent Vice" spotlights private eye Doc Sportello who occasionally comes out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era, as the free love of the 1960s slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog.
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
by Wells Tower
In Tower's debut collection of stories, families fall apart and messily try to reassemble themselves in an America that is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, and wayward sons.
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Nobody Move
by Denis Johnson
In Bakersfield, California, an assortment of unscrupulous characters engages in a cat-and-mouse game over a multimillion-dollar claim.
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Eating the Dinosaur
by Chuck Klosterman
The bestselling author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" returns with an all-original nonfiction collection of questions and answers about pop culture, sports, and the meaning of reality.
