My Top 12 Favorites from 2009

...that is to say, of the books I read in 2009, these were my favorites, in no particular order. Please read them and report back.

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
2. Human Smoke - Nicholson Baker
   
3. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
   
4. Art & Fear - David Bayles and Ted Orland
5. Homer & Langley - E.L. Doctorow
   
6. American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
   
7. Feed - M.T. Anderson
   
8. City of Refuge - Tom Piazza
   
9. Leviathan - Scott Westerfeld
   
10. Predictably Irrational - Dan Arielly
    
11. The Geography of Bliss - Eric Weiner
    
12. Bright of the Sky - Kay Kenyon