New York Times gazetesi kitap eleştirmenleri, 2009'un en iyi 50 kitabını seçti. Listede Nobel ödüllü Orhan Pamuk'un Masumiyet Müzesi adlı romanı da var.

Listeyi yapmanın kolay olmadığını, bu süreçte hata da yapmış olabileceklerini itiraf eden eleştirmenler, öykü dalında verilen eserlerin artmasından duydukları memnuniyeti de dile getiriyorlar. İşte çoğunlukla henüz Türkçeye çevrilmemiş kitaplardan oluşan, kurgu ve kurgu dışı dalında hazırlanan listeden, Türkiyeli okur için seçtiklerimiz:


1. Amateur Barbarians, Robert Cohen
2. American Rust, Philipp Meyer
3. The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker
4. The Art Student's War, Brad Leithauser
5. Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli
6. Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
7. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, Maile Meloy
8. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, Peter Ackroyd
9. Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem
10. The Confessions of Edward Day, Valerie Martin
11. Dearest Creature, Amy Gerstler
12. Do Not Deny Me, Jean Thompson
13. Don't Cry, Mary Gaitskill
14. Every Man Dies Alone, Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann
15. Everything Ravaged Everything Burned, Wells Tower
16. Family Album, Penelope Lively
17. Follow Me, Joanna Scott
18. A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
19. Generosity, Richard Powers
20. Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
21. How It Ended, Jay Mcinerney
22. In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin
23. Invisible, Paul Auster
24. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer
25. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
26. Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
27. Let the Great World Spin, Colum Mccann
28. The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
29. Love and Obstacles, Aleksandar Hemon
30. Love and Summer, William Trevor
31. The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk
32. My Father's Tears and Other Stories, John Updike
33. Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
34. Nothing Right, Antonya Nelson
35. Once the Shore, Paul Yoon
36. One D.O.A., One on the Way, Mary Robison
37. Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
38. A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
39. The Sky Below, Stacey D'Erasmo
40. The Song Is You, Arthur Phillips
41. Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro
42. Typhoon, Charles Cumming
43. A Village Life, Louise Gluck
44. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
45. The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood
46. The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder
47. The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes
48. Ayn Rand and the World She Made, Anne C. Heller
49. Born Round, Frank Bruni
50. The Case for God, Karen Armstrong