You can check out my best of the year category rundown over at The Book Smugglers , but today on New Year's Eve I'm posting my Best Books of 2009 list. Best of 2009 (in order of publication) Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs Silent on the Moor by Deanna Raybourn Marcelo in the Real Worl d by Francisco X. Stork Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King Bad to the Bone by Jeri Smith-Ready Tap & Gown by Diana Peterfreund The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff Heroes at Risk by Moira J. Moore Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater Fire by Kristin Cashore Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines FYI, that's 3 urban fantasies, 6 YAs (2 contemporary, 2 urban fantasy, 2 scifi/dystopian), 2 mysteries, 1 contemporary, 1 fantasy, and 1 historical. Best New Discovery of 2009 Megan Whalen Turner aka MWT, The Turner, the fantabulously gifted, clever, smarter-than-me author of the all k...