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At the end of every year Amazon.com releases the best of the year in books. It is a highly anticipated look at the editor picks, award winners, and top tens. They have released their best of for 2009 and on the list are of course a bunch of great books.  These include a Dark Fantasy novel by Kami Garcia called Beautiful Creatures and the latest installment in Rick Riordan’s Olympian series entitled The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5). You can see the complete list here: Amazon.com’s Best of 2009

Amazon also does the top ten of each genre and here are the top ten in Best of Science Fiction & Fantasy :

1. Palimpsest
2. The Red Tree
3. The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2)
4. American Fantastic Tales Boxed Set
5. Boneshaker (Sci Fi Essential Books)
6. The Other City (Eastern European Literature) (Eastern European Literature Series)
7. Yellow Blue Tibia
8. Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
9. Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
10. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

I have chosen my Top Three from this list and you can read more about them on my Fantasy Guide Website here: Will’s Picks in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre for 2009.