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Best Books Read in 2011: My List

Most of the “best books” list that come out at the end of a year refer to books published during that year. My list, however, comprises books that I have read during the year, regardless of when they were published. My list also combines fiction and nonfiction. I finished my dissertation mid-year and read 30 […]

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Healing Reads: The Year’s Five Best Books

Healing Reads: The Year’s Five Best Books – WSJ.com. Health and medicine books tend to be long on advice and how-to, and short on compelling narrative and literary merit. But several new books this year proved to be welcome exceptions, from a lyrical history of the human heart to an absorbing tale of one of

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PW Staff: The Best Books We’ve Read This Year « PWxyz

PW Staff: The Best Books We’ve Read This Year « PWxyz PW has already named its Best Books 0f 2011, but since readers rarely get to see the faces behind the scenes, we thought we’d let our staff share the best book they read in 2011, because deep down, we’re all just book nerds. Here

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The overlooked sci-fi of 2011 – Salon.com

The overlooked sci-fi of 2011 – Salon.com When compiling best-of lists at the end of the year, it’s easy to overlook certain classes of deserving books. In a year filled with massive, highly publicized releases — a new Neal Stephenson, a Vernor Vinge sequel awaited for twenty years — wonderful books with less flash can

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Best of 2011: 3 More Lists

Yes, the lists just keep coming. Here are 3 more from NPR: Fired Up: The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Fantasy Here are five of the best, most interesting, most mutated science fiction and fantasy novels published this year. A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of

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32 of the year’s best books | Seattle Times

Books | 32 of the year’s best books | Seattle Times Newspaper Seattle Times book editor Mary Ann Gwinn is a bit of a rebel when it comes to these annual book lists. Here’s how she introduces this one:   Before I share The Seattle Times list of 2011’s most worthy books, I’m going to

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Conversation Starters: 2011’s Top 5 Book Club Picks : NPR

Conversation Starters: 2011’s Top 5 Book Club Picks : NPR. “Here are five fascinating books that will be sure to catalyze serious and lively conversation”: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes We the Animals by Justin Torres Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak

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