*Updated: I read 100 books in 2011. What follows here is the list I read. You can find reviews for the 100 books under the category “100 Books of 2011″*
And here it is my faithful followers, my ambitious list of 100 98 novels to read in 2011. I still have spots open in Young Adult Fiction because I do. All assurances that such spots will be filled, the reading done, the glory claimed.
Suggestions are no longer desirable. Save it for next year.
What to read first? last?
In any case. The list:
Wars of the 20th Century
Leviathan —> Scott Westerfeld
A Gate at the Stairs —> Lorrie Moore (9/11)
Paris 1919 → Margaret MacMillan
The Madman and the Butcher —> Tim Cook
What is Left the Daughter —> Howard Norman
Obasan —> Joy Kogawa
A Farewell to Arms → Ernest Hemingway
Night –> Elie Wiesel (WWII)
The Disappeared – Kim Echlin
To the End of the Land → David Grossman (Israel/Palestine)
Short
Missed Her → Ivan E. Coyote
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage → Alice Munro
Wax Boats → Sarah Roberts
Animal –> Alexandra Leggat
The Bloody Chamber —> Angela Carter
Mourning Diary → Roland Barthes
Portuguese Irregular Verbs—> Alexander McCall Smith
In the Skin of a Lion” —> Michael Ondaatje
Nothing Right —> Antonya Nelson
Among the Missing → Dan Chaon
Non-human protagonists
Library: An Unquiet History —> Matthew Battles
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland → Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm → George Orwell
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer → Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Loving Dead –> Amelia Beamer
Jonathan Linginston Seagull —> Richard Bach
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival → Johan Vaillant
The White Bone: Barbara Gowdy
The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia → George Albee
The Art of Racing in the Rain → Garth Stein
Books set in Vietnam and Books Recommended or Discovered
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
The Quiet American → Graham Greene
The Night Circus —> Erin Morgenstern
The Anatomy of a Moment —> Javier Cercas
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet —> David Mitchell
The Accidental —> Ali Smith
Two Cakes Fit for a King: Folktales from Vietnam —> Nguyen Nguyet Cam
Love and Summer —> Trevor William
BossyPants —> Tina Fey
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace —> Thuy Tram
Books with Illustrations
Berlin: City of Stones → Jason Lutes
Two Generals —> Scott Chantler
Tricked → Alex Robinson
Safe Area: Goradzde —> Joe Sacco
Jimmy Corrigan → Chris Ware
A Series of Unfortunate Events —> Lemony Snicket
Empire State —> Jason Shiga
Un Lun Dun —> China Mieville
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian —> Sherman Alexie
The Unwritten —> Mike Carey and Peter Gross
Banned Books
The Diviners: Margaret Laurence
Lady Chatterly’s Lover → D.H. Lawrence
Madame Bovary → Gustave Flaubert
Not Without My Daughter → Betty Mahmoody
The Satanic Verses → Salman Rushdie
Tropic of Cancer –> Henry Miller
Fanny Hill —> John Cleland
Of Mice and Men —> John Steinbeck
The Awakening —> Kate Chopin
American Psycho → Bret Easton Ellis
Young Adult Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret → Judy Blume
Twilight → Stephanie Meyer
The Book Thief → Markus Zusak
Artemis Fowl → Eoin Colfer
Jacob I Have Loved → Katherine Paterson
The Thief —> Megan Whalen Turner
How I Live Now → Meg Rosoff
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate —> Jacqueline Kelly
Be More Chill –> Ned Vizzini
Going Bovine → Libba Bray
Spies/Detectives
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie —> Alan Bradley
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 3 → Arthur Conan Doyle
The Big Sleep –> Raymond Chandler
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold → John le Carre
City of Glass → Paul Auster
And Then There Were None → Agatha Christie
The Sunday Philosophy Club —> Alexander McCall Smith
Coppermine —> Keith Leckie
The Lost Highway —> David Adams Richards
Still Life —> Louise Penny
First Novels
The Cement Garden → Ian McEwen
The Girl with Glass Feet → Ali Shaw
Everything is Illuminated → Jonathan Safran Foer
Knots and Crosses → Ian Rankin
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True —> Brigid Pasulka
Moth Smoke —> Mohsin Hamid
Sense and Sensibility → Jane Austen
The Name of The Rose → Umberto Eco
Player Piano → Kurt Vonnegut
Preservation —> Katrine Raymond
Best-sellers 2000s
Zeitoun → Dave Eggers
Angels and Demons –> Dan Brown
Freedom → Jonathan Franzen
The God Delusion → Richard Dawkins
The Amulet of Samarkaud – The Bartimaeus Trilogy —> Jonathan Stroud
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything —> Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference → Malcolm Gladwell
The Ministry of Special Cases → Nathan Englander
The Kite Runner → Khaled Hosseni
The Lovely Bones → Alice Sebold
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