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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Top 10 Tuesday: Dec. 27 (Top 10 books of the year)



For Top 10 Tuesday: Here are the top 10 books that I read in 2011, in no particular order. Books published in 2011 are asterisked.

1. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta*

2. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach*

3. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides*

4. The Magicians and The Magician King by Lev Grossman*

5. Sunnyside by Glen David Gold

6. The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips*

7. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell*

8. Wendy and the Lost Boys by Julie Salamon*

9. Newsreel by Irvin Faust

10. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht *

Next 10:

1. The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt

2. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern*

3. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson*

4. Mr. Toppit by Charles Elton

5. The Astounding, the Amazing and the Unknown by Paul Malmont *

6. The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst

7. Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas

8. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness*

9. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

10. Wicked Pavilion by Dawn Powell
Posted by Richard LeComte at 10:31 AM

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