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Or Would You Say Christmas Cradle?</a> | <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/">Main</a> | <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/2010/02/troubles-on-kindle-sort-of-insane-collection-of-short-stories-cooking-in-the-overn-paperbacks-acomin.html">Trouble's on Kindle, Sort of Insane Collection of Short Stories Cooking in the Oven, Paperback's A-comin', Gabriel's A-comin' »</a> </p> <h2 class="date-header">12/15/2009</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-6a00d83453a8ca69e2012876586786970c"> <h3 class="entry-header"> Best of '09 Lists </h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p style="font-family: Georgia;">A flurry of listing activity brought some gratifying news of The Cradle making a couple Best Of lists over the weekend. Here's a list of the lists, including a couple others that have trickled in over the past weeks. I think most of the papers around the country are done with this for the year, so I'm putting it on the site; as I'm sometimes still caught off guard realizing I'm a writer in the first place and that I did not end up an astronaut, each one of these came as an unexpected delight.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia;">The Cradle is listed as one of the:</p><ul> <li style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2009/12/from_fiction_to_non-fiction_he.html" target="_blank">Best Books of 2009, The Cleveland Plain Dealer</a></li> <li style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/giftguide-maslin/list.html" target="_blank">Best Books of 2009, The New York Times</a> (Janet Maslin's List)</li> <li style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/ae/articles/2009/12/12/20091212newnotable1213.html" target="_blank">Notable Books of 2009, The Arizona Republic</a> (Anne Stephenson)</li> <li style="font-family: Georgia;">Best Books of 2009, Bookmarks Magazine</li> <li style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/books/story/2ED2CA2F816A37D986257682007EFC70?OpenDocument" target="_blank">50 Favorite Books of 2009, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch</a></li> <li style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/books/1956226,year-in-review-books-122709.article" target="_blank">Favorites of 2009, The Chicago Sun-Times</a></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> Posted by Patrick Somerville at 04:30:10 PM  in <a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$">Books</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">_qoptions = { tags:"typepad.core" }; _qacct="p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM"; quantserve();</script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM.gif?tags=typepad.core" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></a> </noscript>  <script type="text/javascript"> var captchaImgAttempts = 0; var allowAnonComments = '0'; var registrationRequired = 0; var registrationOptional = 0; var emailRequired = 1; var useAvatars = 0; var showSignInMessaging = 0; var jsonURL = "/.services/json-rpc"; var captchaSrc = "/.services/captcha?code_encrypted="; var alertCommentCannotBeBlank = "You can not leave an empty comment. 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