Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books2011

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65 Works 63,568 Books 3,204 Reviews ½ 3.8
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Years:
All, 2023 (61), 2022 (62), 2021 (66), 2020 (65), 2019 (68), 2018 (58), 2017 (65), 2016 (60), 2015 (67), 2014 (63), 2013 (65), 2012 (58), 2011 (65), 2010 (66), 2009 (58), 2008 (66), 2007 (66), 2006 (67), 2005 (66), 2004 (61), 2003 (62), 2002 (68), 2001 (62), 2000 (69), 1999 (66), 1993 (1), 1990 (1), 1990 ed. (1)
WorkCategoryYear
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll by Preston Lauterbach
Arts and Literature2011
33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey
Arts and Literature2011
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
Arts and Literature2011
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock
Arts and Literature2011
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
Arts and Literature2011
Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater by Garry Wills
Arts and Literature2011
Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President by Justin A Frank M.D.
Biography2011
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Biography2011
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
Biography2011
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick
Biography2011
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Biography2011
John Huston: Courage and Art by Jeffrey Meyers
Biography2011
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Biography2011
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Biography2011
Millennium People by J. G. Ballard
Fiction2011
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
Fiction2011
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction2011
Broken Irish by Edward J. Delaney
Fiction2011
The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland by Frank Delaney
Fiction2011
The Time in Between by María Dueñas
Fiction2011
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
Fiction2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction2011
West of Here by Jonathan Evison
Fiction2011
The Glass Demon: A Novel by Helen Grant
Fiction2011
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
Fiction2011
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
Fiction2011
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
Fiction2011
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Fiction2011
Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
Fiction2011
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Fiction2011
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
Fiction2011
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Fiction2011
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
Fiction2011
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
Fiction2011
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Fiction2011
Conquistadora by Esmerelda Santiago
Fiction2011
Luminarium by Alex Shakar
Fiction2011
The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
Fiction2011
The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson
Fiction2011
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín
Fiction2011
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Fiction2011
Clara and Mr Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Fiction2011
American Boy by Larry Watson
Fiction2011
When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
Fiction2011
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
History2011
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag-Montefiore
History2011
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
History2011
Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems by David Trinidad
Poetry2011
Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels by Kevin Young
Poetry2011
The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments by Jim Baggott
Science2011
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos by John D. Barrow
Science2011
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
Science2011
A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
Science2011
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools by Steven Brill
Social Sciences2011
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
Social Sciences2011
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian
Social Sciences2011
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman
Social Sciences2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Social Sciences2011
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan González
Social Sciences2011
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
Social Sciences2011
The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic
Social Sciences2011
The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska by Colleen Mondor
Social Sciences2011
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White by Daniel J. Sharfstein
Social Sciences2011
The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and America's Rush to War by David Willman
Social Sciences2011
Karma by Cathy Ostlere
2011

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