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New York Times Best Books 2011

Awards

New York Times Best Books 2011

Each year, the editors of the New York Times Book Review narrow down the best 100 books of the year and refine that list to the top 10 Best Books of the Year from that selection.

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Fiction
THE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown & Company)
11/22/63 by Stephen King (Scribner)
SWAMPLANDIA! by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf)
TEN THOUSAND SAINTS by Eleanor Henderson (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers)
THE TIGER'S WIFE by Téa Obreht (Random House)

Nonfiction
ARGUABLY: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)
THE BOY IN THE MOON: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown (St. Martin's Press)
MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking)
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
A WORLD ON FIRE: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman (Random House)