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With so many good books to choose from, and more coming out all the time, the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to share with you some of our favorite books that came out in 2009. So here they are, BookSmart's 10 Best Books of 2009:

Our Picks for Fiction

	The Child Thief, by Brom		The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
	Dog On It, by Spencer Quinn		A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick

Our Picks for Non-Fiction

	Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes, by Tessa Kiros		A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table, by Molly Wizenberg
	Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, by Novella Carpenter

Our Picks for Young Adult

	Catching Fire (The Second Book in the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins		Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater
	The Doom Machine, by Mark Teague