Best Books of 2011 – The Washington Post. The Washington Post weighs in with its top five fiction and top five nonfiction books of 2011. Warning: This is another one of those “click for every item” lists. And there’s also a link labeled “More Best of 2011.”
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Booksellers’ Picks: Catch The Year’s Freshest Reads This winter, our independent booksellers have selected books that range in subject from toasters to typeface, odd bookmarks to old Volkswagens, department stores to pasta design. Whether you need a picture book for a toddler, kid lit for a young reader, or quirky nonfiction for the grown-up set,
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The best nonfiction of 2011 – Books – Salon.com Our favorite nonfiction spanned centuries and the world, and told stories of writers, princesses and great thinkers As promised yesterday, Salon’s Laura Miller today presents her list of the five best nonfiction books of the year: Townie by Andre Dubus, III Love and Capital: Karl and
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The best fiction of 2011 – Books – Salon.com In a stellar year for the novel, these five books stood above all others Salon’s Laura Miller lists the five best novels of the year: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Pym by Mat Johnson State of Wonder by Ann Patchett The Tragedy of Arthur by
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These are the 15 nonfiction titles that Monitor book reviewers found to be the most outstanding of 2011. via 15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks – “Day of Honey,” by Annia Ciezadlo – CSMonitor.com. I just finally have to say this. I HATE it when a web site, such as Christian Science Monitor,
Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Books of 2011. Goodreads’ readers have spoken. Check out their favorites in just about any category you can imagine.
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What Sticks: Five 2011 Books That Stay With You : NPR The five books below — three novels, a memoir and a nonfiction narrative — top my list of keepers published in 2011. While it’s no surprise that Julian Barnes and Joan Didion produced books to have and to hold onto, it’s the serendipitous finds
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Plot Driven: Alan Cheuse’s Top 5 Fiction Picks : NPR Although I love the wit and mood of introspective (and lyrically composed) fiction, I’m nearly always drawn to thoughtful, well-plotted books — everything from Ulysses to The Man Without Qualities, Cervantes to Murakami, and Faulkner and Hemingway and Woolf in between. Given all this, 2011’s
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When novels change history As with so many concepts in literature, the French have an elegant word for it: uchronie. For Anglophone readers and writers, we have to make do with such unwieldy terms as “counterfactual novels”, “alternate timelines” and “allohistories” to describe these books. Uchronie is a neologism modelled on Utopia – a “no-time”
Post-Dispatch rounds up favorite books of 2011 Every December, the Post-Dispatch compiles a list of some of the best books of the year after quizzing freelance reviewers, polling a few book sellers and considering some of the books chosen by other publications or award committees. This year, a look at other best-book lists reveals as
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