100 Notable Books - 2011
The December 4th, 2011 issue of the New York Times Book Review included their list of the 100 most notable books released in 2011. This is that list, broken up into Fiction and Non-Fiction entries. All books in this list which are owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability.
Titles not owned by the libraries are included in order to represent the complete list correctly. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.
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FICTION
The Angel Esmerelda
by Don DeLillo
The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
The Barbarian Nurseries
by Hector Tobar
Big Questions: Or, Asomatognosia: Whose Hand Is It Anyway?
by Anders Brekhus Nilsen
The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
Canti
by Giacomo Leopardi
The Cat's Table
by Michael Ondaatje
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
by William Kennedy
Come On All You Ghosts
by Matthew Zapruder
11/22/63
by Stephen King
The Free World
by David Bezmozgis
Ghost Lights
by Lydia Millet
The Grief of Others
by Leah Hager Cohen
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories
by Charles Baxter
House of Holes: A Book of Raunch
by Nicholson Baker
The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan
The Leftovers
by Tom Perrotta
Life on Mars
by Tracy K. Smith
The London Train
by Tessa Hadley
Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories
by Barry Hannah
Lost Memory of Skin
by Russell Banks
The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Moment in the Sun
by John Sayles
Mr. Fox
by Helen Oyeyemi
My New American Life
by Francine Prose
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
Open City
by Teju Cole
The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
by David Foster Wallace
Parallel Stories
by Peter Nadas
Say Her Name
by Francisco Goldman
Scenes From Village Life
by Amos Oz
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
Seven Years
by Peter Stamm
Shards
by Ismet Prcic
Space, In Chains
by Laura Kasischke
Stone Arabia
by Dana Spiotta
The Stranger's Child
by Alan Hollinghurst
The Submission
by Amy Waldman
Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell
Taller When Prone: Poems
by Les Murray
Ten Thousand Saints
by Eleanor Henderson
Not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries' collection.
This Beautiful Life
by Helen Schulman
The Tiger's Wife
by Tea Obreht
The Tragedy of Arthur
by Arthur Phillips
Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
NON-FICTION
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
by Charles J. Shields [Biography Vonnegut]
Arguably: Essays
by Christopher Hitchens [081 Hit]
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
by Maggie Nelson
Assassins of the Turquoise Palace
by Roya Hakakian
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch [501 Deu]
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
by Errol Morris
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steve Pinker [155.7 Pin]
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
by Gabrielle Hamilton [641.5 Ham]
Blue Nights
by Joan Didion [155.937 Did]
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
by Ian Brown
Not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries' collection.
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
by Andrew Graham-Dixon [Biography Caravaggio]
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie [Biography Catherine]
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned
by John A. Farrell [Biography Darrow]
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller [Biography Fuller]
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard [364.152 Mil]
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
by Jonathan Lethem
1861: The Civil War Awakening
by Adam Goodheart [973.711 Goo]
Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
by James Miller
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann [909.4 Man]
George F. Kennan: An American Life
by John Lewis Gaddis [Biography Kennan]
Great Soul: Mahatma Ghandi and His Struggle With India
by Joseph Lelyveld
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Holy War: How Vasco de Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations
by Nigel Cliff
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson [943.086 Lar]
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
by Max Hastings [940.54 Has]
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick [303.483 Gle]
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
by Janet Reitman [299.936 Rei]
Is That a Fish In Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by David Bellos
Jerusalem: The Biography
by Simon Sebag Montefiore [956.944 Mon]
The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
by Denise Gigante
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Unvierse and the Modern World
by Lisa Randall [On Order]
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Mannie Marable [Biography Malcolm]
The Memory Chalet
by Tony Judt
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
by Tony Horwitz [973.711 Hor]
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by Donovan Hohn
My Song: A Memoir
by Harry Belafonte [Music 781.64 Bel]
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov [Biography Belafonte]
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
by Binyavanga Wainaina
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama [320.1 Fuk]
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark
by Brian Kellow
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin [339.272 Yer]
Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality
by Richard Thompson Ford
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
by Susan Orlean [636.737 Orl]
[Sic]: A Memoir
by Joshua Cody
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
by Andrew Roberts [940.54 Rob]
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt [940.21 Gre]
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman [153.44 Kah]
To a Mountain in Tibet
by Colin Thubron [915.15 Thu]
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
by Adam Hochschild [940.3 Hoc]
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
by Caroline Moorehead [940.531 Moo]
Van Gogh: The Life
by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith [Biography Gogh]
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What it Means to Be Black now
by Toure
Why the West Rule -- For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by Ian Morris
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
by Amanda Foreman [973.71 For]
Compiled December 2011 sdc
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