Every year, PW selects its top 100 books, and for the first time ever PW has upped the ante by choosing the 10 books that stood out from the rest. The titles, whittled down from the more than 50,000 volumes considered this year, were picked by the PW reviews editors to reflect the very best of 2009. Here, PW reviews the 10 books.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Big Machine by Victor Lavalle
Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Stitches by David Small
Reviews are available at http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704263.html.
