What Sticks: Five 2011 Books That Stay With You : NPR The five books below — three novels, a memoir and a nonfiction narrative — top my list of keepers published in 2011. While it’s no surprise that Julian Barnes and Joan Didion produced books to have and to hold onto, it’s the serendipitous finds […]
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Plot Driven: Alan Cheuse’s Top 5 Fiction Picks : NPR 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
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When novels change history As with so many concepts in literature, the French have an elegant word for it: uchronie. For Anglophone readers and writers, we have to make do with such unwieldy terms as “counterfactual novels”, “alternate timelines” and “allohistories” to describe these books. Uchronie is a neologism modelled on Utopia – a “no-time”
Post-Dispatch rounds up favorite books of 2011 Every December, the Post-Dispatch compiles a list of some of the best books of the year after quizzing freelance reviewers, polling a few book sellers and considering some of the books chosen by other publications or award committees. This year, a look at other best-book lists reveals as
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Notable Crime Books of 2011 – NYTimes.com. What people like to read is always a matter of personal taste, but taste becomes especially important in the mystery genre, which can range from the civilized cozy to the darkest noir. New York Times crime reviewer Marilyn Stasio acknowledges this and therefore separates her best books list
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The Best of 2011: Editors’ Picks & Customer Favorites | Audible.com. Audiobook giant Audible.com offers a huge number of lists of “best books of 2011.” (They even have a list devoted to the year’s best zombies.) Customers’ favorites are included along with editors’ picks.
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Notable Children’s Books of 2011 – NYTimes.com. But wait, there’s more. Here’s the list for the younger folks on your holiday gift list.
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100 Notable Books of 2011 – NYTimes.com. The New York Times Notable Books of 2011 gift guide includes titles in two main categories: (1) fiction & poetry, and (2) nonfiction.
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Writers from Antonia Fraser to Andrew Motion choose their best books of the year. via Books of the Year 2011 – Telegraph.
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Best Books 2011: The Top Ten — Library Journal Reviews. Library Journal weighs in with its best books lists. The list linked here is of the all-around top 10, but the right sidebar contains links to these other lists: More of the Best Mystery Thrillers SF/Fantasy Romance Street Lit Historical Fiction Christian Fiction Women’s Fiction
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