New York Times Notable Books Of The Year (awards)

This award was given to 35 books.

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   Factory Girls

   From Village to City in a Changing China

   by Leslie T. Chang

   Year: 2009
   
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   Amateur Barbarians

   by Robert Cohen

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 1
   
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   The Confessions of Edward Day

   by Valerie Martin

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 10
   
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   Dearest creature

   by Amy Gerstler

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 11
   
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   Do Not Deny Me: Stories

   by Jean Thompson

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 11
   
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   Don't Cry: Stories

   by Mary Gaitskill

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 13
   
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   Every Man Dies Alone

   by Hans Fallada

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 14
   
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   Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

   by Wells Tower

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 15
   
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   Family Album

   by Penelope Lively

   Year: 2009
   Rank: 16
   
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    Follow Me

    by Joanna Scott

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 17
    
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    A Gate at the Stairs

    by Lorrie Moore

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 18
    
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    Generosity, An Enhancement

    by Richard Powers

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 19
    
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    American Rust

    by Philipp Meyer

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 2
    
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    Half Broke Horses

    A True Life Novel

    by Jeannette Walls

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 20
    
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    How It Ended

    by Jay McInerney

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 21
    
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    In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

    by Daniyal Mueenuddin

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 22
    
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    Invisible

    by Paul Auster

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 23
    
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    Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

    by Geoff Dyer

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 24
    
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    Lark and Termite

    by Jayne Anne Phillips

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 26
    
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    The Little Stranger

    by Sarah Waters

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 28
    
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    Love and Obstacles

    by Aleksandar Hemon

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 29
    
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    The Anthologist

    A Novel

    by Nicholson Baker

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 3
    
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    Love and Summer

    by William Trevor

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 30
    
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    The Art Student's War

    by Brad Leithauser

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 4
    
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    Asterios Polyp

    by David Mazzucchelli

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 5
    
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    Await Your Reply

    by Dan Chaon

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 6
    
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    Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

    by Maile Meloy

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 7
    
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    The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

    by Peter Ackroyd

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 8
    
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    Chronic City

    by Jonathan Lethem

    Year: 2009
    Rank: 9
    
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    Wave

    by Suzy Lee

    Year: 2008
    Category: Best Illustrated Children's Books
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    The Season of Lillian Dawes: A Novel

    by Katherine Mosby

    Year: 2002
    Category: Fiction
    
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    Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn

    A Saga of Race and Family

    by Gary M. Pomerantz

    Year: 1996
    
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    The Kommandant's Mistress

    by Sherri Szeman

    Year: 1993
    Category: "Top 100 Books"
    
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    Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei

    by David Mura

    Year: 1991
    
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    The Gothic Quintet

    Bellefleur

    by Joyce Carol Oates

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