Check out some of our staff favorites from 2011 -  

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip Stead and Erin Stead

Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

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The Map and the Territory

by Michel Houellebecq

Having won France's top literary award, Le Prix Goncourt, Michel Houellebeq's 2010 novel, The Map and the Territory, has now finally arrived in the United States thanks in part to Gavin Boyd's brilliant translation. While the book is a satirical depiction of the French art world, it's also a personal journey into the mind of a writer coming to terms with what it means to write a book. In fact, Houellebeq goes so far to write himself into the plot. Like Ishmaeel Reed and John Fowles before him, Houellebeq is a writer both subtle and subversive.  He is not to be missed.

Andre

Dead End in Norvelt

by Jack Gantos

The year is 1962 and 12 year old Jack Gantos has just been grounded forever at the beginning of what appears will be a very long summer.  Prone to severe nosebleeds whenever he is overly excited or shocked, Jack's mother adds to his misfortune by volunteering his services to an elderly, arthritic woman to help her write obituaries.  But what seems destined to be a boring vacation turns out to be one hilarious adventure after another.  I highly recommend Dead End in Norvelt for anyone who loves to laugh.  Jack Gantos has just received the 2012 Newbery Medal for this book.

Linda