Year-End Lists

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2011, alphabetical by title

Fiction

• The Angel Esmeralda

  Nine Stories
  Don DeLillo
• The Art of Fielding
  Chad Harbach
• The Barbarian Nurseries
  Héctor Tobar
• Big Questions. Or, Asomatognosia

  Whose Hand Is It Anyway?
  Anders Brekhus Nilsen
• The Buddha in the Attic
  Julie Otsuka
• Canti
  Giacomo Leopardi
• The Cat’s Table
  Michael Ondaatje
• Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
  William Kennedy
• Come on All You Ghosts
  Matthew Zapruder
• 11/22/63
  Stephen King
• The Free World
  David Bezmozgis
• Ghost Lights
  Lydia Millet
• The Grief of Others
  Leah Hager Cohen
• Gryphon

  New and Selected Stories
  Charles Baxter
• House of Holes

  A Book of Raunch
  Nicholson Baker
• The Last Werewolf
  Glen Duncan
• The Leftovers
  Tom Perrotta
• Life on Mars
  Tracy K. Smith
• The London Train
  Tessa Hadley
• Long, Last, Happy

  New and Selected Stories
  Barry Hannah
• Lost Memory of Skin
  Russell Banks
• The Marriage Plot
  Jeffrey Eugenides
• A Moment in the Sun
  John Sayles
• Mr. Fox
  Helen Oyeyemi
• My New American Life
  Francine Prose
• 1Q84
  Haruki Murakami
• Open City
  Teju Cole
• The Pale King

  An Unfinished Novel
  David Foster Wallace
• Parallel Stories
  Peter Nadas, translated by Imre Goldstein
• Say Her Name
  Francisco Goldman
• Scenes from Village Life
  Amos Oz, translated by Nocholas de Lange
• The Sense of an Ending
  Julian Barnes
• Seven Years
  Peter Stamm
• Shards
  Ismet Prcic
• Space, in Chains
  Laura Kasischke
• Stone Arabia
  Dana Spiotta
• The Stranger’s Child
  Alan Hollinghurst
• The Submission
  Amy Waldman
• Swamplandia!
  Karen Russell
• Taller When Prone

  Poems
  Les Murray
• Ten Thousand Saints
  Eleanor Henderson
• This Beautiful Life
  Helen Schulman
• The Tiger’s Wife
  Téa Obreht
• The Tragedy of Arthur
  Arthur Phillips
• Train Dreams
  Denis Johnson

Nonfiction

• And So It Goes. Kurt Vonnegut

  A Life
  Charles J. Shields
• Arguably

  Essays
  Christopher Hitchens
• The Art of Cruelty

  A Reckoning
  Maggie Nelson
• Assassins of the Turquoise Palace
  Roya Hakakian
• The Beginning of Infinity

  Explanations that Transform the World
  David Deutsch
• Believing is Seeing

  Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
  Errol Morris
• The Better Angels of Our Nature

  Why Violence Has Declined
  Steven Pinker
• Blood, Bones and Butter

  The Inadvertent Education of  a Reluctant Chef
  Gabrielle Hamilton
• Blue Nights
  Joan Didion
• The Boy in the Moon

  A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
  Ian Brown
• Caravaggio

  A Life Sacred and Profane
  Andrew Graham-Dixon
• Catherine the Great

  Portrait of a Woman
  Robert K. Massie
• Clarence Darrow

  Attorney for the Damned
  John A. Farrell
• Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
  Alexandra Fuller
• Destiny of the Republic

  A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
  Candice Millard
• The Ecstasy of Influence

  Nonfictions, Etc.
  Jonathan Lethem
• 1861

  The Civil War Awakening
  Adam Goodheart
• Examined Lives

  From Socrates to Nietzsche
  James Miller
• 1493

  Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
  Charles C. Mann
• George F. Kennan

  An American Life
  John Lewis Gaddis
• Great Soul

  Mahatma GAndhi and His Struggle with India
  Joseph Lelyveld
• Harlem is Nowhere

  A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
  Sharifa Rhoes-Pitts
• Holy War

  How Vasco de Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations
  Nigel Cliff
• In the Garden of Beasts

  Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
  Erik Larson
• Inferno

  The World at War, 1939-1945
  Max Hastings
• The Information

  A History, a Theory, a Flood
  James Gleick
• Inside Scientology

  The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion
  Janet Reitman
• Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
  David Bellos
• Jerusalem

  The Biography
  Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Keats Brothers

  The Life of John and George
  Denis Gigante
• Knocking on Heaven’s Door

  how Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
  Lisa Randall
• Malcolm X

  A Life of Reinvention
  Manning Marable
• The Memory Chalet
  Tony Judt
• Midnight Rising

  John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
  Tony Horwitz
• Moby-Duck

  The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them
  Donovan Hohn
• My Song

  A Memoir
  Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson
• The Net Delusion

  The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
  Evgeny Morozov
• One Day I Will Write About This Place
  Binyavanga Wainaina
• The Origins of Political Order

  From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
  Francis Fukuyama
• Pauline Kael

  A Life in the Dark
  Brian Kellow
• Pulphead
  John Jeremiah Sullivan
• The Quest

  Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
  Daniel Yergin
• Rights Gone Wrong

  How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equity
  Richard Thompson Ford
• Rin Tin Tin

  The Life and the Legend
  Susan Orlean
• [sic]

  A Memoir
  Joshua Cody
• The Storm of War

  A New History of the Second World War
  Andrew Roberts
• The Swerve

  How the World Became Modern
  Stephen Greenblatt
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  Daniel Kahneman
• To A Mountain in Tibet
  Colin Thubron
• To End All Wars

  A Story of Loyalty and Rebellionm 1914-1918
  Adam Hochschild
• A Train in Winter

  An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
  Caroline Moorehead
• Van Gogh

  The Life
  Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
• Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to be Black Now
  Touré
• Why the West Rules — For Now

  The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
  Ian Morris
• A World on Fire

  Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War
  Amanda Foreman