TIME Magazine Best Fiction Books of 2009

The TIME Magazine Best Fiction Books of 2009 are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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TIME Magazine Best Fiction Books of 2009

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Winner! 300 reviews (2009) (560p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter 32 reviews (2009) (304p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Swimming by Nicola Keegan 70 reviews (2009) (320p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 562 reviews (2009) (400p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower 48 reviews (2009) (256p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer 65 reviews (2009) (304p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin 102 reviews (2009) (256p) (PP) (NBA) (TIME) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=1 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell 211 reviews (2009) (336p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi 92 reviews (2009) (300p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell 74 reviews (2009) (992p) (TIME) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page