Publib Favorite Books 2011

By David Faulkner -

As a member of PubLib, an electronic discussion list for public libraries, I asked fellow members to name the book they most enjoyed reading that year. Here is the list for 2011 :

 

Title	Author	Votes
22 Britannia Road	Hodgkinson, Amanda	1
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination	Ackroyd, Peter	1
Alchemist, The	Coelho, Paulo	1
All Clear	Willis, Connie	1
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel	Yaccarino, Dan	1
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot	Ferguson, Craig	1
Angel Town	Saintcrow, Lilith	1
Art of Fielding, The	Harbach, Chad	1
Art of Racing in the Rain, The	Stein, Garth	2
Ashes	Bick, Ilsa J.	1
Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, The	Benjamin, Melanie	1
Barbarian Nurseries, The	Tobar, Hector	1
Becoming Marie-Antoinette	Grey, Juliet	1
Before I Go To Sleep	Watson, S. J.	1
Black Lamb & Grey Falcon	West, Rebecca	1
Blackout	Willis, Connie	1
Book of Days (Book 5 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles)	Grabien, Deborah	1
Bossypants	Fey, Tina	2
Boy in the Suitcase, The	Kaaberbol, Lene and Agnete Friis	1
Buddha in the Attic, The	Otsuka, Julie	1
Clara and Mr. Tiffany	Vreeland, Susan	1
Commencement	Sullivan, J. Courtney	1
Dark Tower, The series	King, Stephen	1
Detective Kubu Mystery series	Stanley, Michael	1
Devotion of Suspect X, The	Higashino, Keigo	1
Discovery of Witches, A	Harkness, Deborah	2
Distant Hours, The	Morton, Kate	1
Elizabeth I	George, Margaret	1
Elizabeth I trilogy	Irwin, Margaret	1
Everybody Sees the Ants	King, A.S.	1
Fabulous New Orleans	Saxon, Lyle	1
Fahrenheit 451	Bradbury, Ray	1
Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship	Ryan, Tom	1
Forgotten Garden, The	Morton, Kate	1
Girl Who Fell From the Sky, The	Durrow, Heidi W	1
Graveyard Book, The	Gaiman, Neil	1
Her Fearful Symmetry	Niffenegger, Audrey	1
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer	McBride, Lish	1
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization	Woods, Jr., Thomas E.	1
Hunger Games, The	Collins, Suzanne	1
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto	Pollan, Michael	1
Information, The: A History, a Theory, a Flood	Gleick, James	1
Island, The	Hilderbrand, Elin	1
Joy for Beginners	Bauermeister, Erica	1
Just Kids	Smith, Patti	1
King’s Daughter, The	Dickason, Christie	1
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883	Winchester, Simon	1
Language of Flowers, The	Diffenbaugh, Vanessa	1
Left Neglected	Genova, Lisa	1
Leftovers, The	Perrotta, Tom	1
Makers	Doctorow, Cory	1
Middlemarch	Eliot, George	1
Miss Silver Mystery series	Wentworth, Patricia	1
Monster Calls, A	Ness, Patrick	1
Night Circus, The	Morgenstern, Erin	4
Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, The	Tea, Michelle	1
Pirate King: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Russell and Holmes, Book 11)	King, Laurie R.	1
Please Look After Mom	Shin, Kyung-Sook	1
Ready Player One	Cline, Ernest	2
Reamde	Stephenson, Neal	1
Redwall	Jacques, Brian	1
Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865	Leech, Margaret	1
Richard the Lionheart	Gillingham, John	1
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend	Orlean, Susan	1
Rules of Civility	Towles, Amor	1
Secret Kept, A	Rosnay, Tatiana de	1
Song of Ice and Fire, A series	Martin, George R.R.	1
Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, The	Bailey, Elisabeth Tova	1
Steve Jobs	Isaacson, Walter	1
Tess of the D’Urbervilles	Hardy, Thomas	1
Tigerlily’s Orchids	Rendell, Ruth	1
Unfamiliar Fishes	Vowell, Sarah	1
Untold Story	Ali, Monica	1
Weird Sisters, The	Brown, Eleanor	1
What is Left the Daughter	Norman, Howard	1
When She Woke	Jordan, Hillary	1
Zero Day	Baldacci, David	1
Zero History	Gibson, William	1

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