Every year, I put up a list (or a few) on Lists of Bests, but I never seem to be able to get through them. Not one to give up, I'm doing something similar again this year. My list of 100 books is compiled from the following Best of the Best lists:

• The 10 Best Books of 2009 from NYTimes
• 100 Notable Books of 2009
• Amazon.com Editors Best of 2009 Book Picks
• Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009
• GoodReads: Best Books published in 2009
• NPR's Lists of Best Books for Various Occasions from 2009
• The Decade's Best Unread Books

Here are the 97 books - fiction only - that I'm looking forward to reading in 2010.

• A Dark Love, Margaret Carroll
• A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
  
• A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick
  
• A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
  
• Amateur Barbarians, Robert Cohen
  
• American Rust, Phillip Meyer
• An Elegy for Easterly: Stories, Petina Gappah
• The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker
  
• The Art Student's War, Brad Leithauser
  
• Await Your Reply, Dan Chaon
  
• Barefoot Soldier, Johnson Beharry VC
  
• The Believers, Zoë Heller
  
• Black Juice, Margo Lanagan
  
• Blue Moon, Alyson Noel
  
• Boneshaker, Cherie Priest
• Both ways is the Only Way I Want It, Maile Meloy
  
• Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
  
• Blood Promise, Richelle Mead
  
• Captive of Sin, Anna Campbell
  
• The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, PETER ACKROYD
  
• Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
  
• Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour
  
• Child of Fire, Harry Connolly
  
• Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem
  
• The City & the City, China Miéville
  
• City of Glass, Cassandra Clare
  
• The Cloud Pavilion, Laura Joh Rowland
  
• The Confessions of Edward Day, Valerie Martin
• The Cry of the Sloth, Sam Savage
• Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
  
• Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
  
• The Dark Horse, Craig Johnson
  
• Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris
  
• Dearest Creature, Amy Gerstler
  
• The Devil's Alphabet, Daryl Gregory
• Do Not Deny Me: Stories By JEAN THOMPSON
  
• Don't Cry: Stories, Mary Gaitskill
  
• Drood, Dan Simmons
  
• Evermore, Alyson Noel
  
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
  
• Family Album, Penelope Lively
  
• The Fate of Katherine Carr, Thomas H. Cook
• The Financial Lives of the Poets, Jess Walter
  
• Once the Shore, Paul Yoon
  
• Tinkers, by Paul Harding
  
• Follow Me By JOANNA SCOTT
  
• A Gate at the Stairs By LORRIE MOORE
• Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsch
  
• Generosity: An Enhancement By RICHARD POWERS
  
• The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, Joshilyn Jackson
  
• Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, JEANNETTE WALLS
  
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett
  
• How to Sell, Clancy Martin
• Hunted, P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
  
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, daniyal Mueenuddin
  
• The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
  
• Invisible, Paul Auster
  
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer T GEOFF DYER T
  
• The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
  
• Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
• The Last War, Ana Menendez
• Let the Great World Spin, Colum Mccann
  
• The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
  
• The Lord of Death, Eliot Pattison
  
• Londongrad, Reggie Nadelson
  
• Love and Obstacles: Stories, Aleksandar Hemon
• Love and Summer, William Trevor
  
• Lovecraft Unbound, Edited by Ellen Datlow
  
• The Man in the Wooden Hat, Jane Gardam
  
• The Museum of Innocence, ORHAN PAMUK
  
• My Father's Tears: And Other Stories By JOHN UPDIKE
  
• Nemesis, Jo Nesbø
  
• New World Monkeys, Nancy Mauro
  
• Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• Nothing Right: Short Stories, Antonya Nelson
  
• Once the Shore: Stories By Paul Yoon
• One D.O.A., One on the Way, Mary Robison
  
• Ravens, George Dawes Green
  
• Sag Harbor, colson Whitehead
  
• The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly
  
• The Secrets of the Chess Machine, Robert Löhr
  
• A Short History of Women, Kate Walbert
  
• The Silent Hour, Michael Koryta
  
• The Sky Below, Stacey D'Erasmo
  
• The Song Is You, Arthur Phillips
  
• Soulless, Gail Carriger
  
• The Spare Room, Helen Garner
  
• Spooner, Pete Dexter
  
• Tinkers, Paul Harding
  
• Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro
  
• Typhoon, Charles Cumming
  
• The Vagrants, Yiyun Li
  
• A Village Life, Louise Gluck
• The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
  
• Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
  
• The Wrong Mother, Sophie Hannah
  
• The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood

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