Books of the year/decade

On Friday our reading group will be nominating our favourite books of 2009 and the decade inelegantly known as the Noughties. If you'd like to leave me a comment with your personal choices I'll take them along. My nominations will be:

The Lincoln Lawyer and The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly. Great crime, make sure to read them in order.

La Cuisine selon Proust: recipes and quotations from A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, beautifully photographed

Simon Gray's series of four memoirs, The Smoking Diaries - poignant reflections on ageing, friendship, family and the London literary scene.