The New Yorker Picks Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

The New Yorker reviewers have chosen their favorite books of 2009, and Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi made the list. The Economist also featured the book in its list of best books of the year. “Please take the time to read it and fall under Dyer’s spell,” says Alain de Botton. On sale from Pantheon Books.