I asked a number of people to name some of their favorite books read in 2011
(see previous post)
What great responses!
Thanks to all.
If you have other titles please add them to this blog
What were your favorite reads of 2011?
BILL
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climes Tom Robbins
The Moor's Tale Salmon Rushdie
Nobody's Fool Richard Russo
The Crossing Cormac MCarthy
The Portable Atheist Christopher Hitchens
BARBARA
Just Kids Patti Smith
At Home Bill Bryson
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
KEVIN
The Pale King David Foster Wallace
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit Mark Seal
Kentucky Derby Andrea Cohen
Saint Louis Armstrong Beach Brenda Woods
PAULA
A Testament of Devotion Thomas Kelly
DENNY
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in the World S.C. Gwynne
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis
The Paris Wife Paula McLain
Purple Jesus Ron Cooper
Wizards First Rule Terry Goodkind
BRENT
Masters of Atlantis Charles Portis
CASEY
Samuel Ramey: American Bass Jane Scovell
SCOTT
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Daniel Okrent
And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life Charles J. Shields
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick
Lisa's Story Tom Batiuk
DEBORAH
11-22-63 Steven King
Mornings on Horseback David MCullough
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
KATHERINE
The Hare With the Amber Eyes Edmond de Waal
Binary Vision Collected Stories of Edith Perlman
When We Were Strangers P. Schoenwalt
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand H. Simonson
The Gift or Rain T.T. Eng
SEBASTIAN
The Memory Chalet Tony Judt
The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal
The Thou and Autumns of Jacoib de Zoet David Mitchell
The Gate of Angels Penelope Fitzgerald
BRENT
The Masters of Atlantis Charles Portis
JANET
Swamplandia Karen Russell
Emily, Alone Stewart O'Nan
MATTHEW
The Frontiersman Alan Eckert
Star Island Carl Hiasen
Skinny Dip Carl Hiasen
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
LIST YOUR OWN FAVORITES IN THE COMMENT SECTION!
THANKS!
KEEP READING FOR 2012.
2 comments:
I wasn't one of those asked, but here are a few books that I enjoyed in 2011:
Still Alice and Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Katie Up and Down the Hall by Glenn Plaskin (easy read, but cute and I just got a cocker spaniel!)
several of the Kurt Wallander mysteries by Henning Mankell (dvds were also good with Kenneth Branaugh as Kurt Wallander)
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Cutting for Stone by Verghese
The Litigators by Grisham
Thanks for your list Chris....always looking for books to read! Jason gave me a Kindle for Christmas, so now its even easier!
Townie, by Andre Dubus III
Sidekicks, by Jack Ferraiolo
Paying for It, by Chester Brown
The Boy Who Couldn't Die, by William Sleator
Love & Fame, by John Berryman
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