Second 25 books of 2009
Explore the second 25 best books of 2009 with this curated list. Discover top fiction, non-fiction, and must-read titles from this iconic year in literature.

Book
Startide Rising
by David Brin
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times …


Book
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the …

Item Not Found
ID: 0441016006
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0765351773
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: B0006AUKW2
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0316036374
(Type: book)

Book
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.

Book
Axis
by Robert Charles Wilson
Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Now, in Axis, …

Book
The Lost Fleet: Valiant
by Jack Campbell
Legendary war hero Captain “Black Jack” Geary fights to stay ahead of his enemies in the fourth novel in Jack Campbell’s New York Times bestselling …

Book
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily …
Item Not Found
ID: 0843962062
(Type: book)


Book
A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture …
Item Not Found
ID: 0345306783
(Type: book)


Book
Level 7
by Mordecai Roshwald
Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic …
Item Not Found
ID: 0765315122
(Type: book)
Item Not Found
ID: 0380813297
(Type: book)


Book
Calculating God
by Robert J. Sawyer
The provocative, near-future SF thriller from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author
Item Not Found
ID: 0765317311
(Type: book)