Another year-end “best” list! NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011:
Another year-end “best” list! NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011:
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Open City by Teju Cole
The Submission by Amy Waldman
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace
Enjoy reading mysteries? Try one of the New York Times Notable Crime Books of 2011.
Enjoy reading mysteries? Try one of the New York Times Notable Crime Books of 2011.
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
Stagestruck by Peter Lovesey
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
The Cut by George Pelecanos
Triple Crossing by Sebastian Rotella
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
Shock Wave by John Sandford
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
Bent Road by Lori Roy
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina
The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis
The Killer is Dying by James Sallis
The Adjustment by Scott Phillps
The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
The Ridge by Michael Koryta
Field Gray by Philip Kerr
Potsdam Station by David Downing
Heartstone by C.J. Sansom
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke
The Informant by Thomas Perry
V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block
The 10 Best Books of 2011, chosen by the New York Times from their annual list of 100 Notable Books.
The 10 Best Books of 2011, chosen by the New York Times from their annual list of 100 Notable Books.
FICTION
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
NONFICTION
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
School Library Journal publishes the Best Adult Books 4 Teens, and has a staff of twenty that review books published for adults that have appeal for teenagers. Check out a few titles, and you can have your own private book club for two with the adult or teenager in your life.
It’s the end of the year, and we all know what that means! The Best Books (as determined by grownups) are being released. The Teens Top Ten Books list can be found here, and in January, the Printz award books will be released.
But,the Cold Spring Harbor Library has 29 of the Best Teen Books of 2011, according to Kirkus!
Curious as to which ones we have? There’s a handy-dandy guide below. Also, ALL of these titles are eligible for our Read A Book, Write a Review Program (which ends December 31st). Don’t you just *want* community service hours for reading a cool book, and writing a review that will most likely wind up on our website?
The top ten fiction books of the year from Time magazine.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Lord of Misrule: A Novel by Jaimy Gordon
Wilson by Daniel Clowes
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
The Passage: A Novel by Justin Cronin
Faithful Place by Tana French
The top ten nonfiction books of the year from Time magazine.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood by Jane Leavy
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox
War by Sebastian Junger
Life by Keith Richards
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
The 10 Best Books of 2010, as chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.
Fiction
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie
Room by Emma Donoghue
Selected Stories by William Trevor
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Nonfiction
Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
School Library Journal has announced their top picks for 2010 Best Books! Below you may click on the book covers and be linked to our page in the catalog.
