The New York Times has published its 10 Best Books of 2009.

Fiction:
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, by Maile Meloy
Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem
A Gate At The Stairs, by Lorrie Moore
Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
A Short History of Women, by Kate Walbert

Nonfiction:
The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes
The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel
LIT: A Memoir, by Mary Karr
Lords of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, by Carol Sklenicka