My 2011 Top Ten(ish)

There are hundreds of "best of" lists out there to remind you of your favs, or tell you what you missed, so you hardly need my humble list to guide your reading choices.  However, the compilation of the list is practically book-blog law, and it's mostly for my own reference and entertainment, so here goes . . .

This year I broke the list into categories - Best New Books I Read, Honorable Mention New Books I Read, Best Books I Read Published Prior to 2011... (Catchy titles, don't you think?)  And since we're not strictly adhering to the rules, there are eighteen books on my list, rather than ten.  'Cause that's the kind of free-spirited rebel I am!

So, the Oscar goes to . . .

Best New Books: (in no particular order) 

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

11/22/63 by Stephen King (review not written)

Honorable Mention New Books:

The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern
Litigators by John Grisham
Before I go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews

The Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz

If You Were Here by Jenn Lancaster

A few I really liked that weren't so new:

  

Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Still Alice by Lisa Genova  

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

And a Couple of Excellent Rereads:

Soaring Eagle by Stephanie Grace Whitson

Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico