I just thought I would put a shout out to all my favorite books and CDs of 2009:
Favorite Fiction book (adult): Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Favorite Non-Fiction book: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Favorite new Poetry Book: My Index of Slightly Disturbing Knowledge by Paul Guest
Favorite newly re-discovered poet: The Dream Songs by John Berryman
Favorite non-fiction book about poetry: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry by Stephen Burt
Favorite Rock CD (tie): The Bootleg Series, no. 8: Tell Tale Signs by Bob Dylan; Microcastle by Deerhunter; and Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Favorite Jazz CD: The Bright Mississippi by Allen Toussaint
Favorite Young Adult Fiction: Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Favorite Young Adult Non-Fiction: Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose
Please add your favorites in the comment section.
Hope you all have a great holidays- see you in the new year!
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I forgot to add my favorite Book on CD of the year: "Fortress of Solitude" by Jonathan Lethem. It's a big'un (16 CDs) but the storytelling and language are stupendous.
I almost forgot my favorite Book on CD of 2009 (well, one that I listened to in 2009): Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, read by Ethan Hawke. (The reason I probably forgot is that i listened to it in February and my daughter was born in March and most things prior to her birth have been a blur- a happy blur).
Other Favorite non-fiction Books on CD: A century of recorded poetry (covers late 19th up to late 20th century poetry- a great audio resource!); and,
Plato and Platypus walk into a bar: Understanding philosophy through jokes, by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein.
Also, if you like your poetry more contemporary, you can listen to podcasts on poetryfoundation.org (it's my new favorite thing to do while I'm ironing).
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