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.

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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 …
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Rainbow Mars

by Larry Niven

Science fiction-roman.
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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 …
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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.
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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When Gravity Fails

by George Alec Effinger

The classic of cyberpunk SF
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Calculating God

by Robert J. Sawyer

The provocative, near-future SF thriller from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author
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