Geoff Dyer’s genre-defying, profound and deeply funny novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, got a mention on the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2009 list.

Check out their fiction and non-fiction lists here (and stay for their ‘Best of’ lists of absolutely everything. And click here for James Wood’s terrific review of Jeff in Venice, and Dyer in general, from earlier this year.

‘A raucous delight. Jeff in Venice is truly surprising—very funny, full of nerve, gutsy and delicious. Venice will never be the same again!’ Michael Ondaatje