These were the Top 10 Fiction and Non-Fiction books in Time Magazine's Top of 2009 list. Not all are owned by the libraries but enough are that I thought people would be interested. Here's a link to the original lists, among other categories.

Fiction

Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel

The Financial Lives of the Poets
by Jess Walter

Swimming
by Nicola Keegan

Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
by Wells Tower

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
by Geoff Dyer

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Beat the Reaper
by Josh Bazell

The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi

The Kindly Ones
by Jonathan Littell

Non-Fiction and Biographies

The Age of Wonder
by Richard Holmes [509 Hol]

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
by Anthony Beevor [940.542 Bee]

Lit
by Mary Karr [Biography Karr]

Changing My Mind
by Zadie Smith

The Lords of Finance
by Licquat Ahamed [332.1 Aha]

Logicomix
by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitrious, Alecos Papadatos and Annie De Donna

Manhood for Amateurs
by Michael Chabon [Biography Chabon]

Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder [Biography Deo]

Cooking Dirty
by Jason Sheehan

Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey [Biography Cheever]