Largehearted Boy: Online "Best of 2009" Book Lists

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November 2, 2009

Online "Best of 2009" Book Lists

Just like last year, I will be aggregating every online "best of 2009" book lists I find in this post. As the lists appear online, I will add them to this master list. Please feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me with a blog, magazine, newspaper, or other online media list I have missed.

Read daily updates to this list.

AAAS (science books for children and young adults)
Amazon.com (bestselling books)
Amazon.com (bestselling art & photography books)
Amazon.com (bestselling audiobooks)
Amazon.com (bestselling biographies & memoirs)
Amazon.com (bestselling business & investing books)
Amazon.com (best children's middle reader books)
Amazon.com (best children's picture books)
Amazon.com (bestselling comics & graphic novels)
Amazon.com (bestselling cookbooks)
Amazon.com (bestselling current events books)
Amazon.com (bestselling entertainment books)
Amazon.com (bestselling food lit books)
Amazon.com (bestselling gay & lesbian books)
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Amazon.com (bestselling home & garden books)
Amazon.com (bestselling literature & fiction books)
Amazon.com (bestselling mystery & thrillers books)
Amazon.com (bestselling outdoors & nature books)
Amazon.com (bestselling romance books)
Amazon.com (bestselling science books)
Amazon.com (bestselling science fiction & fantasy books)
Amazon.com (bestselling short story collections)
Amazon.com (bestselling teens books)
Amazon.com editors (best books)
Amazon.com editors (best arts & photography books)
Amazon.com editors (best audiobooks)
Amazon.com editors (best biographies and memoirs)
Amazon.com editors (best business & investing books)
Amazon.com editors (best children's middle readers books)
Amazon.com editors (best children's picture books)
Amazon.com editors (best comics & graphic novels)
Amazon.com editors (best cookbooks)
Amazon.com editors (best current events books)
Amazon.com editors (best entertainment books)
Amazon.com editors (best food lit books)
Amazon.com editors (best gay & lesbian books)
Amazon.com editors (best history books)
Amazon.com editors (best home & garden books)
Amazon.com editors (best literature & fiction)
Amazon.com editors (best mystery & thriller books)
Amazon.com editors (best outdoors & nature books)
Amazon.com editors (best romance books)
Amazon.com editors (best science books)
Amazon.com editors (best science fiction and fantasy)
Amazon.com editors (best short story collections)
Amazon.com editors (best teens books)
The Atlantic (books of the year)

Beyond Her Book - Reader's Choice (best books)
Book Examiner (best book club books)
Book Patrol (best books about books)
Booklist (top arts books for youth)

Charles A. Tan (best books)
Chicken Spaghetti (list of children's book lists)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's alphabet & counting books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's biography & history books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's fiction picture books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's graphic novels)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's historical fiction books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's non-fiction picture books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's poetry books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's pop-up & novelty books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's realistic fiction books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best children's science books)
The Columbus Dispatch (best young adult novels)

EarlyWord (.xls file) (list of major national lists)

Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life (best books)

Feminist Mama Galore (children's books)
Flashlight Worthy (best books)
Flashlight Worthy (best books for tweens)
FreeInfidel (top atheist books)

Genreville (top science fiction & fantasy books)
Gourmet (favorite food books)
Guerrilla Girls on Tour (best books)

Horn Book Magazine (books)

ITs Food (best foodie books)

Jessy Randall (best poetry books)
Joshua Marie Wilkinson (best poetry books)
Justin Marks (best poetry books)

Kathleen Rooney (best poetry books)
Kirkus Reviews (PDF link) (best children's books)
Kristi Maxwell (best poetry books)

Let It Read (best books)

Mental Floss (best books)
Michael Patrick Brady (favorite books)
The Mousehunter Blog (best children's books)

National Book Award (young people's literature)
National Outdoor Book Awards (outdoors books)
Neil de la Fleur (best poetry books)
New York Times (best illustrated children's books)

Old Musty Books (most enjoyable books for reasons other than the story)
Old People Writing for Teens (top books)

The Pointed Pundit (favorite books)
Professor Doddley's Occasional Weblog (favourite books)
Publishers Weekly (best books)
Publishers Weekly (best children's books)
Publishers Weekly (best food books)

The Simple Dollar (books)
Stepcase Lifehack (best productivity books)
Steven Karl (best poetry books)
Stiletto Online (top selling books in South Africa)

The Times Online (best paperbacks)
Topic A, Among Others (best book)

USA Book News (best books)

World Fantasy Awards (fantasy literature)

Young Adult Library Services Association (top teens books)

also at Largehearted Boy:

daily updates to this list

Online "Best Books of 2008" Lists
Online Best of the Decade (2000-2009) music lists
2008 Online Year-end Music Lists
2007 Online Year-end Music Lists
2006 Online Year-end Music Lists
other lists at Largehearted Boy
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Anitiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
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