Notable Books for 2009 from ALA (nonfiction and poetry)

Nonfiction:
Cullen, Dave--Columbine
Eggers, Dave--Zeitoun
Finkel, David--The Good Soldiers
Grann, David--The Lost City of Z
Guibert, Emmanuel--The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Holmes, Richard--The Age of Wonder: how the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Keefe, Patrick Radden--Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld & the American Dream
McDouglaa, Christopher--Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Ever Seen
Norman Michael--Tears in Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Salisbury, Lainey--Provenance: How a Con Man & a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Small, David--Stitches: A Memoir
Thompson, Nicholas--The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze,George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

Poetry:
Alexie, Sherman--Face
Dunn, Stephen--What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009