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