Notable Books for Adults List, 2011
Fiction
Nashville Chrome by Rick Bass.
Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue.
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.
Next by James Hynes.
The Surrendered by Chang Rae Lee.
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel by David Mitchell.
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray.
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli.
The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel by Brady Udall.
Non-Fiction
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow.
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier.
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by Oren Harman.
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent.
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hourby Lynne Olson.
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
Just Kids by Patti Smith.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson.
Poetry
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty: Poems by Tony Hoagland.
Wait: Poems by C.K. Williams.
3 comments:
Poetry, as always, the least represented. Thanks for the list. A lot of great reads on it.
I have just found your website and I like it very much. I am not sure I have the guts to join!
Don't be shy, Angela - we don't bite! No pressure - you set your own goals...we'd love to have you on board :)
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