2011 Books

December

• The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (03 Dec 11) (nonfiction)
• Here Is a Human Being by Misha Angrist (11 Dec 11) (narrative nonfiction)
• What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (14 Dec 11) (nonfiction)
• Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn (18 Dec 11) (narrative nonfiction)
• The Western Lit Survival Kit by Sandra Newman (22 Dec 11) (nonfiction)
• Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (22 Dec 11) (YA fiction)
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (26 Dec 11) (nonfiction, audio book)

November

• Covering the Courts by S.A. Alexander (02 Nov 11) (nonfiction)
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (05 Nov 11) (fiction)
• Sugar In My Bowl by Erica Jong (06 11 Nov) (nonfiction)
• Mercury by Hope Larson (06 Nov 11) (fiction) (graphic novel)
• My Year With Eleanor by Noelle Hanock (08 Nov 11) (memoir)
• Falling for Me by Anna David (09 Nov 11) (memoir)
• Learning to Breathe by Priscilla Warner (12 Nov 11) (memoir)
• The Big Short by Michael Lewis (13 Nov 11) (narrative nonfiction)
• Gluten Free Girl by Shauna James Ahern (14 Nov 11) (memoir)
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (19 Nov 11) (fiction)
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman (20 Nov 11) (fiction)
• The Magician King by Leg Grossman (23 Nov 11) (fiction)

October

• Big Girl’s Don’t Cry by Rebecca Traister (01 Oct 11) (nonfiction)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (03 Oct 11) (fiction)
• Monsters in America by W. Scott Poole (11 Oct 11) (nonfiction)
• Tension City by Jim Lehrer (12 Oct 11) (nonfiction)
• Badasses by Peter Richmond (19 Oct 11) (narrative nonfiction)
• Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum (22 Oct 11) (narrative nonfiction)
• Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham (22 Oct 11) (fiction)
• The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell (22 Oct 11) (memoir)
• When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (22 Oct 11) (fiction)
• The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker (26 Oct 11) (memoir)

September

• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (01 Sept 11) (nonfiction)
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (02 Sept 11) (fiction)
• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (04 Sept 11) (fiction)
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (17 Sept 11) (fiction)
• Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson (17 Sept 11) (nonfiction)
• Page One: Inside the New York Times edited by David Folkenflik (22 Sept 11) (nonfiction)

August 2011

• The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll (01 Aug 11) (fiction)
• The Glimpse Traveler by Marianne Boruch (06 Aug 11) (memoir)
• Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman (09 Aug 11) (fiction)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (12 Aug 11) (fiction)
• The Neighborhood Project by David Sloan Wilson (20 Aug 11) (nonfiction)
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (21 Aug 11) (fiction)
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (27 Aug 11) (fiction)

July 2011

• Up for Renewal by Cathy Alter (02 July 11) (memoir)
• The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry (03 July 11) (narrative nonfiction)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (04 July 11) (fiction)
• Haiti: After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer (07 July 11) (nonfiction)
• Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá (11 July 11) (nonfiction)
• Storming the Tulips by Ronald Sanders, translated by Hannie J. voyles (12 July 111) (nonfiction)
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (22 July 11) (fiction)
• A Dirty Job by Christoper Moore (23 July 11) (fiction)
• The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry (23 July 11) (fiction)
• Miracle Beach by Erin Celello (27 July 11) (fiction)
• Next to Love by Ellen Feldman (30 July 11) (fiction)

June 2011

• Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley (02 June 11) (nonfiction)
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• Unfinished Business by Lee Kravitz (05 June 11) (memoir)
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• The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins (09 June 11) (nonfiction)
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• Election by Tom Perotta (10 June 11) (fiction)
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• Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch (12 June 11) (memoir)
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• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (17 June 11) (fiction)
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• The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty (20 June 11) (fiction)
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• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (25 June 11) (fiction)
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• The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer (26 June 11) (YA fiction)

May 2011

• The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock (04 May 11) (nonfiction)
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• The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (07 May 11) (fiction)
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• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckhoff (10 May 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine (10 May 11) (graphic novel, memoir)
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• The Convert by Deborah Baker (16 May 11) (nonfiction)
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• Train to Nowhere by Colleen Bradford Krantz (21 May 11) (nonfiction)
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• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (28 May 11) (nonfiction)
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April 2011

• Beautiful & Pointless by David Orr (1 April 11) (nonfiction)
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• I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Diana Joseph (9 April 11) (memoir)
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• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart (9 April 11) (memoir)
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• Nothing Left to Burn by Jay Varner (9 April 11) (memoir)
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• Fables IX: Sons of Empire, Fables X: The Good Prince, and Fables XI: War and Pieces by Willingham, Buckingham, Leialoha, Allred, and Pepoy
• Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich (12 April 11) (nonfiction)
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• The Girl Who Was on Fire edited by Leah Wilson (14 April 11) (nonfiction)
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• This Life is in Your Hands by Melissa Coleman (16 April 11) (memoir)
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• The Heroine’s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore (19 April 11) (nonfiction)
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• The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure (25 April 11) (memoir)
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• Priceless by Nicole Richie (26 April 11) (fiction)
• The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (30 April 11) (fiction)
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March 2011

• Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer (4 Mar 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (8 Mar 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• The United States of Arugula by David Kamp (12 Mar 11) (nonfiction)
• The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (13 Mar 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• Blood Work by Holly Tucker (18 Mar 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (20 Mar 11) (nonfiction)
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• Reality Bites Back by Jennifer L. Pozner (22 Mar 11) (nonfiction)
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• Paper Towns by John Green (23 Mar 11) (YA fiction)
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• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (26 Mar 11) (memoir)
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• But Not For Long by Michelle Wildgen (27 Mar 11) (fiction)
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• The Long Goodbye by Meaghan O’Rourke (31 Mar 11) (memoir)
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February 2011

• Reading Women by Stephanie Staal (2 Feb 11) (memoir)
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• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (5 Feb 11) (memoir)
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• And Hell Followed With It by Bonar Menninger (15 Feb 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• Cover Me by Sonya Huber (17 Feb 11) (memoir)
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• Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith (19 Feb 11) (memoir)
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• The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman (23 Feb 11) (fiction)
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• The Mesh by Lisa Gansky (28 Feb 11) (nonfiction)
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January 2011

• At Home by Bill Bryson (1 Jan 11) (nonfiction)
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• The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann (9 Jan 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff (12 Jan 11) (nonfiction)
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• Lonely by Emily White (15 Jan 11) (memoir)
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• Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell (19 Jan 11) (memoir)
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• The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (23 Jan 11) (fiction)
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• Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick (26 Jan 11) (narrative nonfiction)
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• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (30 Jan 11) (fiction)
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