My 2009

The best (5 stars):

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty

Special mentions (4.5 stars):

• The Steig Larsson trilogy.
  
• Peeps and the Uglies, Pretties, Specials trilogy by Scott Westerfeld.
  
• In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan
  
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
  
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
  
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer (NOT the twilight saga).
  
• March by Geraldine Brooks.