Plot Driven: Alan Cheuse’s Top 5 Fiction Picks : NPR

/ Book Recommendations / By Mary Daniels Brown / December 5, 2011

Although I love the wit and mood of introspective (and lyrically composed) fiction, I’m nearly always drawn to thoughtful, well-plotted books — everything from Ulysses to The Man Without Qualities, Cervantes to Murakami, and Faulkner and Hemingway and Woolf in between. Given all this, 2011’s best books made me a happy reader.

Read why Cheuse has chosen these five books as the top fiction of 2011:

The Tiger’s Wife
The Art of Fielding
Once Upon a River
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The Night Eternal

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Mary Daniels Brown

Mary Daniels Brown learned at an early age how to read people, and she’s been doing that ever since. Combining advanced education in both literature and psychology, she reads and reviews novels that explore identity, the search for meaning and purpose in life, and the varieties of human experience. She’s been blogging about books at Notes in the Margin for more than 25 years. Mary believes that her focus on Life Stories in Literature has made her both a more astute reader and a happier, more human person.

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