Reader List: New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2011

The New York Times Book Review’s
10 Best Books of 2011
submitted in December 2011 by BookMan

There were some great books put out this past year. The libraries have most of these — I thought other readers might be interested in seeing what the venerable New York Times thought were the Top Ten books of 2011!

FICTION

The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach

11/22/63
by Stephen King

Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell

Ten Thousand Saints
by Eleanor Henderson

The Tiger’s Wife
by Tea Obreht

NON-FICTION

Arguably: Essays
by Christopher Hitchens (081 Hit)

The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
by Ian Brown (Biography Brown)

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Mannie Marable (Biography Malcolm)

Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman (153.44 Kah)

A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War
by Amanda Foreman (973.71 For)