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.
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
The Financial Lives of the Poets
by Jess Walter (eBook and eAudiobook formats only)
Swimming
by Nicola Keegan (eAudiobook format only)
Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins (YA Collins)
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
by Wells Tower (not owned by the Lincoln City Libraries)
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
by Geoff Dyer (eAudiobook format only)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin (eAudiobook format only)
Beat the Reaper
by Josh Bazell
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Kindly Ones
by Jonathan Littell
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 (eBook and eAudiobook formats only)
Logicomix
by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitrious, Alecos Papadatos and Annie De Donna (not in libraries’ collection)
Manhood for Amateurs
by Michael Chabon (Biography Chabon)
Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder (Biography Deo)
Cooking Dirty
by Jason Sheehan (not in the libraries’ collection)
Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey (Biography Cheever)