2009 Jambalaya Award winners (under construction)

The most interesting books I've read for the first time in 2009 (in the order read):


2666 -- Roberto Bolano
Revenge of The Spellmans -- Lisa Lutz
Seasons Of Migration To The North -- Taye Salih
The Journal of Jules Renard -- Jules Renard
The Tremor of Forgery -- Patricia Highsmith
The City and The City -- China Mieville
The Ax -- Donald E. Westlake
Jeff In Venice, Death In Varanasi -- Geoff Dyer
Inherent Vice -- Thomas Pynchon
Right Ho, Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
Housekeeping -- Marilynne Robinson
Disgrace -- J.M. Coetzee
Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
Await Your Reply -- Dan Chaon
Then We Came To The End -- Joshua Ferris
Stoner -- John Williams



Honorable mention:

The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes -- K.C. Constantine
The Cold Dish -- Craig Johnson
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read -- Pierre Bayard
Miracles of Life -- J.G. Ballard
Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign -- Phillipe-Paul de Segur
The Dart League King -- Keith Lee Morris
Lush Life -- Richard Price
The Genius -- Jesse Kellerman
New Selected Poems -- Mark Strand
The Act of Love -- Howard Jacobson
Selected Stories -- Robert Walser
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Vol. 1 1929-40
My Father's Tears -- John Updike
The Old Man And Me -- Elaine Dundy
Erased -- Jim Krusoe
Child 44 -- Tom Rob Smith
The American Painter, Emma Dial -- Samantha Peale
Hard Rain Falling -- Don Carpenter
The Anthologist -- Nicholson Baker
The Pillowman -- Martin McDonagh
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius -- Ray Monk
The Dawn Patrol -- Don Winslow