Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin
Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe
Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche
Bagatelles pour un massacre [Trifles for a Massacre] by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
L’École des cadavres [The School of Corpses] by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Les Beaux Draps [A Fine Mess] by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Normance by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated from the French and with an introduction by Marlon Jones
From the House of the Dead an opera by Leoš Janáček, staged by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 by Jackson Lears
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Divinely Painted—Andrea del Sarto: The Holy Family in Munich and Paris an exhibition at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, October 1, 2009–January 6, 2010
Red Riding: 1974, 1980, 1983 adapted by Tony Grisoni and directed by Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, and Anand Tucker
It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower by Michela Wrong
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 12, 2009–January 24, 2010, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 28–May 23, 2010
Selected Poems by Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler
Selected Poems of Fulke Greville edited and with an introduction by Thom Gunn, and an afterword by Bradin Cormack
At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn edited by Joshua Weiner
Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations by Avi Shlaim
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok
The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr. Beddoes and His Sons of Genius by Mike Jay