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Amazon.com: 2011 Best Books of the Year

Amazon.com: 2011 Best Books of the Year. Amazon has offers several lists here. The first one is “Best Books of 2011,” of which the top ten are: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes In the Garden of Beasts by […]

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Goodreads Choice Awards 2011

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The Best Books of 2011: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror

The Best Books of 2011 « Genreville. Publishers Weekly’s editors’ choices of 2011’s top books in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011

But wait, there’s more! In a follow-up to their earlier list of the year’s top 10 books, Publishers Weekly offers a more complete listing, separated by genre or by adult/children’s books. PW Best Books of 2011 Readers’ Poll And over here you can vote on your favorite of PW’s top 10. The choices are: The

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PW Best Books 2011: The Top 10

Yep, it’s that time again already: Time for the “best books of the year” lists. Here’s the first one I’ve seen, Publishers Weekly‘s list of the 10 best books of the year, both fiction and nonfiction considered together. And I’m sure that more lists won’t be far behind.

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Why is dystopia so appealing to young adults? A dystopia is an imaginary world in which people live dehumanized lives of fear and subjugation; it’s the opposite of utopia. In this piece YA writer Moira Young examines why distopian novels such as Suzanne Collins’s recent Hunger Games trilogy are so popular with young people: Books

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Vashon Great Books club one of oldest in U.S. The Seattle Times spotlights 92-year-old Grace Crecelius: For 61 years, Grace Crecelius has cracked the books. Not just any books, mind you, but the works of Plato, Descartes and Kant, Shakespeare, Marx and Freud. At 92, Crecelius is the oldest member of what may be one

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Ikea is changing its long-lived Billy bookshelf. Is print dead? Ikea will make changes to its low-cost, high-volume Billy bookshelf this fall. And to some, that means books are dying. Ten Crime Books You Have to Read Before You Die This title is way misleading, since there are two lists of 10 plus numerous alternates.

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Sick Of Young Adult Lit? 3 Books For The Whiz Kid In this issue of NPR’s “three books” series, Adam Mansbach reflects on which books he read in childhood have stuck with him: The ones I continue to love now, a quarter-century after first mauling their spines, tend to confront complex social issues bravely, convey

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The 10 Most Powerful Women Authors Forbes contributor Avril David has put together a list of “10 women [who] can tell (and sell) a good story”: Although there are many more women throughout history who have proven to be powerful authors, this list is limited to those who are living, with a focus on personal

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