Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year2011

Given by Publishers Weekly

Other Names: Publisher's Weekly Best Book, Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
85 Works 112,054 Books 6,128 Reviews ½ 3.8
Categories:
All, Best Children's Book (2), Children's Fiction (3), Fiction (317), Lifestye (1), Lifestyle (77), Mass Market (10), Mysteries (6), Mystery (22), Mystery/Thriller (101), Non-Fiction (1), Nonfiction (386), Poetry (10), Religion (83), Religious Fiction (7), Romance (45), SF/Fantasy/Horror (9), Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (79), No Category (49)
Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2020 (3), 2019 (83), 2018 (68), 2017 (84), 2016 (77), 2015 (75), 2014 (92), 2013 (91), 2012 (82), 2011 (85), 2010 (72), 2009 (92), 2008 (111), 2007 (100), 2006 (68), 2005 (1), 2003 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (3), 1995 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
Fiction2011
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky
Fiction2011
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Fiction2011
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction2011
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Fiction2011
Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock
Fiction2011
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Fiction2011
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Fiction2011
Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy
Fiction2011
Leche by R. Zamora Linmark
Fiction2011
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Fiction2011
The Call by Yannick Murphy
Fiction2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Fiction2011
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Fiction2011
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Fiction2011
Cain by José Saramago
Fiction2011
Luminarium by Alex Shakar
Fiction2011
There But For The by Ali Smith
Fiction2011
Someday This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman
Fiction2011
I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck
Fiction2011
Cook This Now: 120 Easy and Delectable Dishes You Can't Wait to Make by Melissa Clark
Lifestyle2011
Mourad: New Moroccan by Mourad Lahlou
Lifestyle2011
Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are by Ed Levine
Lifestyle2011
The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts by David McMillan
Lifestyle2011
Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food by Jacques Pepin
Lifestyle2011
The Knitter’s Life List by Gwen Steege
Lifestyle2011
The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
Mystery/Thriller2011
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Mystery/Thriller2011
Revenger by Rory Clements
Mystery/Thriller2011
Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman
Mystery/Thriller2011
A Simple Act of Violence by R.J. Ellory
Mystery/Thriller2011
Field Grey by Philip Kerr
Mystery/Thriller2011
The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
Mystery/Thriller2011
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
Mystery/Thriller2011
Two for Sorrow by Nicola Upson
Mystery/Thriller2011
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker
Nonfiction2011
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination by Javier Cercas
Nonfiction2011
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India by Siddhartha Deb
Nonfiction2011
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Nonfiction2011
Townie by Andre III Dubus
Nonfiction2011
Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
Nonfiction2011
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Nonfiction2011
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
Nonfiction2011
Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso
Nonfiction2011
Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel
Nonfiction2011
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Nonfiction2011
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
Nonfiction2011
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Nonfiction2011
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
Nonfiction2011
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
Nonfiction2011
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
Nonfiction2011
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History by Robert Hughes
Nonfiction2011
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Nonfiction2011
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
Nonfiction2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Nonfiction2011
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Nonfiction2011
Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography by Errol Morris
Nonfiction2011
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
Nonfiction2011
The Long Goodbye: A memoir by Meghan O'Rourke
Nonfiction2011
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
Nonfiction2011
The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Nonfiction2011
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Nonfiction2011
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir by Binyavanga Wainaina
Nonfiction2011
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
Nonfiction2011
Good and Perfect Gift, A: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny by Amy Julia Becker
Religion2011
Love Wins: For Teens by Rob Bell
Religion2011
Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara by Colleen Morton Busch
Religion2011
Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Carroll
Religion2011
Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (New Directions in Narrative History) by Craig Harline
Religion2011
The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st-Century Spirituality in Judaism's 5,000-Year-Old Tradition by Jamie S. Korngold
Religion2011
Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life by James Martin
Religion2011
As Far As the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul by Mark Nepo
Religion2011
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor by Jana Riess
Religion2011
A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good by Miroslav Volf
Religion2011
The Secret Mistress by Mary Balogh
Romance2011
No Proper Lady by Isabel Cooper
Romance2011
Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt
Romance2011
Angel's Rest by Emily March
Romance2011
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud
Romance2011
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2011
Triptych by J.M. Frey
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2011
Unpossible and Other Stories by Daryl Gregory
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2011
Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume 1 by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2011
After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2011
Erekos by A.M. Tuomala
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror2011

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