Best Books of 2011 - The Critics' Choices

1.
The Night Circus
The Night Circus really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,068,501 ratings
2.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending 3.74 avg rating β€” 188,392 ratings
3.
The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers 3.85 avg rating β€” 101,544 ratings
4.
State of Wonder
State of Wonder 3.90 avg rating β€” 197,565 ratings
5.
The Tiger's Wife
The Tiger's Wife 3.42 avg rating β€” 101,752 ratings
6.
11/22/63
11/22/63 4.35 avg rating β€” 614,204 ratings
7.
The Marriage Plot
The Marriage Plot 3.47 avg rating β€” 123,510 ratings
8.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating β€” 244,174 ratings
9.
The Art of Fielding
The Art of Fielding 3.99 avg rating β€” 115,137 ratings
11.
Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating β€” 1,041,997 ratings
12.
The Buddha in the Attic
The Buddha in the Attic 3.70 avg rating β€” 62,386 ratings
13.
Nightwoods
Nightwoods 3.66 avg rating β€” 14,848 ratings
14.
Before I Go to Sleep
Before I Go to Sleep 3.90 avg rating β€” 360,235 ratings
15.
The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife 3.82 avg rating β€” 302,774 ratings
16.
The Cat's Table
The Cat's Table 3.62 avg rating β€” 27,174 ratings
17.
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 3.95 avg rating β€” 333,070 ratings
18.
The Lover's Dictionary
The Lover's Dictionary 3.86 avg rating β€” 47,755 ratings
19.
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,266,940 ratings
20.
Townie
Townie 3.79 avg rating β€” 8,338 ratings
20.
The Leftovers
The Leftovers 3.43 avg rating β€” 49,522 ratings
22.
The Tragedy of Arthur
The Tragedy of Arthur 3.44 avg rating β€” 3,002 ratings
23.
The Prague Cemetery
The Prague Cemetery 3.51 avg rating β€” 29,536 ratings
24.
Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility 4.09 avg rating β€” 262,592 ratings
25.
Doc
Doc really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 17,363 ratings
26.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating β€” 107,267 ratings
27.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,331,288 ratings
28.
The Stranger's Child
The Stranger's Child 3.33 avg rating β€” 11,760 ratings
29.
Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station 3.79 avg rating β€” 18,337 ratings
31.
Lost Memory of Skin
Lost Memory of Skin 3.60 avg rating β€” 6,799 ratings
32.
Reamde
Reamde 3.99 avg rating β€” 56,790 ratings
33.
The Empty Family: Stories
The Empty Family: Stories 3.66 avg rating β€” 2,518 ratings
34.
Half Blood Blues
Half Blood Blues 3.70 avg rating β€” 17,534 ratings
35.
Jerusalem: The Biography
Jerusalem: The Biography 4.09 avg rating β€” 12,986 ratings
36.
The Dovekeepers
The Dovekeepers 4.07 avg rating β€” 79,269 ratings
37.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern 3.87 avg rating β€” 34,488 ratings
37.
There But For The
There But For The
by: Ali Smith
3.50 avg rating β€” 9,880 ratings
39.
The Family Fang
The Family Fang 3.62 avg rating β€” 32,204 ratings
40.
The Submission
The Submission 3.67 avg rating β€” 12,684 ratings
41.
Ten Thousand Saints
Ten Thousand Saints 3.50 avg rating β€” 7,234 ratings
42.
Swamplandia!
Swamplandia! 3.28 avg rating β€” 59,348 ratings
43.
Pulphead
Pulphead really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,974 ratings
44.
The Outlaw Album
The Outlaw Album 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,354 ratings
45.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating β€” 564,626 ratings
46.
The Angel Esmeralda
The Angel Esmeralda 3.72 avg rating β€” 4,108 ratings
47.
Train Dreams
Train Dreams 3.90 avg rating β€” 29,234 ratings
49.
This Burns My Heart
This Burns My Heart 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,639 ratings
50.
Open City
Open City
by: Teju Cole
3.49 avg rating β€” 17,169 ratings
52.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 3.91 avg rating β€” 7,066 ratings
53.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood 4.04 avg rating β€” 16,839 ratings
54.
Blueprints for Building Better Girls
Blueprints for Building Better Girls 3.57 avg rating β€” 2,732 ratings
55.
On Canaan's Side (Dunne Family #4)
On Canaan's Side (Dunne Family #4) 3.88 avg rating β€” 5,916 ratings
56.
Arguably: Selected Essays
Arguably: Selected Essays 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,834 ratings
58.
Once Upon a River
Once Upon a River 3.72 avg rating β€” 9,170 ratings
61.
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,538 ratings
62.
Last Man in Tower
Last Man in Tower 3.57 avg rating β€” 7,859 ratings
63.
The Pale King
The Pale King 3.97 avg rating β€” 19,433 ratings
63.
Zone One
Zone One 3.25 avg rating β€” 26,611 ratings
65.
The Free World
The Free World 3.37 avg rating β€” 1,759 ratings
67.
River of Smoke
River of Smoke 3.97 avg rating β€” 10,821 ratings
69.
What It is Like to Go to War
What It is Like to Go to War 4.01 avg rating β€” 9,708 ratings
71.
The Barbarian Nurseries
The Barbarian Nurseries 3.71 avg rating β€” 3,497 ratings
72.
Blue Nights
Blue Nights 3.94 avg rating β€” 46,066 ratings
73.
Say Her Name
Say Her Name 3.68 avg rating β€” 2,846 ratings
74.
The Magician King (The Magicians, #2)
The Magician King (The Magicians, #2) 3.93 avg rating β€” 103,894 ratings
75.
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend 3.53 avg rating β€” 4,938 ratings
76.
Solace
Solace 3.47 avg rating β€” 1,065 ratings
78.
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris 3.94 avg rating β€” 20,408 ratings
79.
The Illumination
The Illumination 3.40 avg rating β€” 3,589 ratings
80.
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2,278 ratings
81.
The Forgotten Waltz
The Forgotten Waltz 3.19 avg rating β€” 6,399 ratings
82.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention 4.19 avg rating β€” 19,916 ratings
83.
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,413 ratings
85.
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry 3.95 avg rating β€” 155,563 ratings
86.
Other People's Money
Other People's Money 3.54 avg rating β€” 972 ratings
87.
A Man of Parts
A Man of Parts 3.54 avg rating β€” 1,133 ratings
88.
Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox 3.57 avg rating β€” 11,452 ratings
89.
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World 3.90 avg rating β€” 46,989 ratings
90.
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness 3.91 avg rating β€” 12,744 ratings
91.
Habibi
Habibi 4.03 avg rating β€” 43,062 ratings
96.
George F. Kennan: An American Life
George F. Kennan: An American Life 4.09 avg rating β€” 2,589 ratings