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Literature and Language Arts 2009 www.ala.org

The 2009 Literature and Language Arts list of books is complied by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The list is selected by a YALSA Committee of public, secondary school, and academic librarians and it is revivised every five years.


Books
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biography
  • Business
  • Children
  • Comics
  • Computers
  • Cooking
  • Current Events
  • Drama
  • Entertainment
  • Family and Parents
  • Fashion
  • Fiction
  • Film
  • Gay and Lesbian
  • Health, Body and Mind
  • History
  • Home and Garden
  • Horror
  • Internet
  • Investing
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Medicine
  • Music
  • Mystery and Thrillers
  • Nature and Outdoors
  • Nonfiction
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Professional
  • Reference and Languages
  • Religion
  • Romance
  • Science
  • SciFi and Fantasy
  • Sports
  • Teens
  • Travel
  • Women's Studies

All Book Lists
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound Book Lists
Arts and Humanities 2009

History 2004

History and Culture 2009

Humanities 2004

Literature and Language Arts 2004

Literature and Language Arts 2009

Science and Technology 2004

Science and Technology 2009

Social Sciences 2004

Banned Book Lists
ALA The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2007

Banned and Challanged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

Books Challenged or Banned in 2004-2005

The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990's

Baseball Book Lists
Baseball Book Survey - Biography

Baseball Book Survey - History

Favorite Baseball Novels

Girls can play baseball too.

Major League Baseball Books

New York Times Baseball Reading List

Peanuts, Cracker Jack and ... Baseball Books?

Rob Neyer Essential Baseball Library

Gay and Lesbian Book Lists
Rainbow List 2008

Rainbow List 2009

Guardian Top 10 Book Lists
Andy Cave's top 10 books on Alpinism

Catherine Sampson's top 10 books on Beijing

Clive Sinclair's top 10 westerns

Danny Fingeroth's top 10 graphic novels

Freya North's top 10 romps and romances

Howard Jacobson's top 10 novels of sexual jealousy

James Hopkin's top 10 Polish books

Lee Rourke's top 10 books about boredom

Romesh Gunesekera's top 10 island books

Sarah Anderson's top 10 books about wilderness

Suzanne Munshower's top 10 books about the Berlin Wall

Tim Harford's top 10 undercover economics books

Wesley Stace's top 10 books about children aimed at adults

Literature Book Lists
50 Books that Best Defined the 20th Century

The 50 Books Most Worth Talking About

Time Magazine 100 Best Novels

National Public Radio Books Book Lists
NPR All Things Considered 2004

NPR All Things Considered 2005

NPR All Things Considered 2006

NPR All Things Considered 2007

NPR Fresh Air 2004

NPR Fresh Air 2005

NPR Fresh Air 2006

NPR Fresh Air 2007

NPR Morning Edition 2004

NPR Morning Edition 2005

NPR Morning Edition 2006

NPR Morning Edition 2007

NPR Talk of the Nation 2004

NPR Talk of the Nation 2006

NPR Talk of the Nation 2007

New York Times Best Books Book Lists
The 10 Best Books of 2000

The 10 Best Books of 2004

The 10 Best Books of 2005

The 10 Best Books of 2006

The 10 Best Books of 2008

The 11 Best Books of 1997

The 11 Best Books of 1998

The 11 Best Books of 1999

The 7 Best Books of 2002

The 9 Best Books of 2001

The 9 Best Books of 2003

New York Times Notable Books Book Lists
NYT Fiction and Poetry 2005

NYT Fiction and Poetry 2006

NYT Fiction and Poetry 2007

NYT Fiction and Poetry 2008

NYT Non-fiction 2004

NYT Non-fiction 2005

NYT Non-fiction 2006

NYT Non-fiction 2007

NYT Non-fiction 2008

Newsweek Five Most Important Books Book Lists
Alex Ross's Five Most Important Books

Cornel West's 5 most import books

Steven Pinker's 5 most important books

Non-fiction Book Lists
Andrew Ellson Picks Six Books on Cash Crashes

Politics Book Lists
5 Best Political Convention Books by Jeff Greenfield

Progressive Book Lists
Read, Then Act - Ralph Nader recommends 10 Muckraking Books

The Economist Best Books Book Lists
Best Books of 2008 in Biography

Best Books of 2008 in Culture and Digressions

Best Books of 2008 in Economics and Business

Best Books of 2008 in Fiction and Memoirs

Best Books of 2008 in History

Best Books of 2008 in Politics and Current Affairs

Best Books of 2008 in Science and Technology

Wall Street Journal Top 5 Book Lists
Andrew Klavan's 5 best psychological crime novels

Anthony Rudel's Best Books About the Golden Age of Radio

Damian Thompson's 5 books that emphatically debunk pseudohistory and spurious 'knowledge'

Elvin T. Lim's 5 Books on Presidential Rhetoric

Frederic Spotts 5 essential books about France under Nazi Occupation

Jeremy Schaap's 5 best books on the Olympics

Jerome Groopman's best books about doctors and patients

Peter Conn's 5 Books From the Great Depression

R.A. Scotti chooses books about nefarious art-world doings

Tina Brown's Books on Reputation
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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Who the Hell is Pansy OHara?
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Caramelo
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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A Lesson Before Dying
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Looking for Alaska
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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The Kite Runner
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Never Let Me Go
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Mister Pip
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Good Poems
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Secret Life of Bees
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The God of Animals
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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The Road
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Kafka on the Shore
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
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The Plot Against America
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Lucky: A Memoir
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
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Blankets
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The Book Thief
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