The Best American Non Required Reading 2009 - Dave Eggers, editor - Paperback

This "great volume" highlights the "very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplys, blogs and more" (OK!). Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, it is "both uproarious and illuminating" (Publishers Weekly).

Includes work by Philip Connors, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Franzen, Rivka Galchen, J. Malcolm Garcia, David Grann, Denis Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Matthew Power, and others.