Publisher's Weekly listed their best books in the major categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc) of 2009. Among them are two of Powell's Indiespensible titles (David Small's Stitches and Sam Savage's The Cry of the Sloth), a book I was really disappointed by (Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger), and a Zadie Smith book of essays (Changing My Mind) I'd never even heard of before.
But a controversy has erupted over their definitive Top 10: every author on the list is male. The Powell's blog features lots of links showing reaction to the story.
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