Maureen Corrigan's Best Books of 2009

Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for the NPR show "Fresh Air." Her list complete with commentary can be viewed here.

Fiction

A Gate at the Stairs
• The Believers / Zoe Heller
• Brooklyn / Colm Toibin
• A Gate at the Stairs / Lorrie Moore
• The Financial Lives of the Poets / Jess Walter

The Woman
Behind the New Deal
• Happens Every Day: An All-Too True Story / Isabel Gillies
• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience / Kirstin Downey
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City / Greg Grandin
• Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein