THE BEST
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BEST FICTION PUBLISHED AND READ IN 2011
The Gap Year by Sarah Bird
Room by Emma Donoghue
Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles
The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain
BEST NON-FICTION PUBLISHED AND READ IN 2011Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family
in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson
The Intentional Networker by Patti DeNucci
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Destiny Of The Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the
Murder of a President by Candice Millard
BEST FICTION PUBLISHED PRIOR TO BUT READ IN 2011
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
BEST NON-FICTION PUBLISHED PRIOR TO BUT READ IN 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Genghis Kahn And The Making Of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Learning to Breathe by Alison Wright
The Best American Nature Writing
The Best American Medical Writing
THE WORST
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family
in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson
The Intentional Networker by Patti DeNucciSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Destiny Of The Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the
Murder of a President by Candice Millard
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
BEST NON-FICTION PUBLISHED PRIOR TO BUT READ IN 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience and Redemption by Laura HillenbrandGenghis Kahn And The Making Of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Learning to Breathe by Alison Wright
PRETTY DAMN GOOD
The Best American Science Writing
The Best American Nature Writing
The Best American Medical Writing
OK
The Best American Travel Writing
The Best American Sports Writing
Are Men Necessary: When Sexes Collide by Maureen Dowd
THE WORST
REALLY TRIED MY PATIENCE
Wine & War: The French, the Nazis, and the
Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
MADE ME WANT TO HURT SOMEONE
I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can by Barbara Gordon
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
BOOKS I WANTED TO READ IN 2011 BUT DIDN’T, YET
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
The Tiger’s Wife by Tia Obreht
Boomerang by Michael Lewis
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business
Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
Life Itself by Roger Ebert
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff