Favorite books of 2011
Below are some of my favorite books of those I read in 2011: some old, some new, omitting any that I’ve read before, and more or less in the order that I read them.
- The Best of Lucius Shepard
- Controlled Burn by Scott Wolven
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- If Not, Winter by Sappho, edited by Anne Carson
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
- Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
- Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland
- Open City by Teju Cole
- The Lost City of Z by David Grann
- One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
- Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk
- The Best Art You’ve Never Seen by Julian Spalding
- American Fantastic Tales, vol. I, edited by Peter Straub
- Return of the Osprey by David Gessner
- A Wider View of the Universe by Robert Kuhn McGregor
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
- Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence, edited by George Wickes
If you’re still in the mood for lists, here are more of mine.
And here are some lists by others.
- Alexandra Fuller’s top 10 African memoirs (plus my own list)
- Top Ten favorite books by writers
- Cynthia Ozick’s list, discussed by Roger Ebert
- 25 Great Books by Legendary Scientists
- Books That Changed My Life
