Instead of looking at critics picks, here the books our readers enjoyed in 2009.  Top picks: The Help by Kathleen Stockett (34 loans).  The story, aoubt an asipirng writer who recoreds the stories of the “colored help, ”  struck a chord with readers. Second was The Associate (26 loans), John Grisham’s latest lawyer story.  in duress, which went out 26 times.  Third (21 loans),   The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Anne Shaffer, a  story about civilians during WWII.  Also popular:  Just take my Heart by Mary Higgins Clark (20) ,  Three Weeks to Say Goodbye by C. J. Box, Long Lost by Harlan Coben, and Look Again by Lisa Scottoline (19 loans), Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard and Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell (18 loans) and Paths of Glory by Geoffrey Archer, Moon Shell Beach by Nancy Thayer and Loitering with Intent by Stuart Woods (17 loans).