1. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
2. Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper
3. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
4. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
5. World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

1. 
   World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters
   
2. 
   A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs (book on CD)
   
3. 
   Blue Nights by Joan Didion (book on CD)
   
4. 
   Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
   
5. 
   The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot
   

1. 
   Then, Suddenly by Lynn Emanuel
   
2. 
   A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (book on CD)
   
3. 
   All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
   
4. 
   A Sudden Light by Garth Stein
   
5. 
   We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (book on CD)
   

1. 
   Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
   
2. 
   Love and Limerence by Dorothy Tennov
   
3. 
   The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extance
   
4. 
   Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
   
5. 
   The Circle by Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg
   

* = especially liked
~ = reread

1. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
2. Deenie by Judy Blume
3. Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin
4. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
5. The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman & co.
6. The Walking Dead Vol. 5: The Best Defense by Robert ( Read more... )

* = especially liked
~ = reread

1. Saving Graces by Elizabeth Edwards
2. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold~
3. The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris~
4. 11/22/63 by Stephen King*
5. The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
6. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
7. You Are Here by Christopher Potter
8. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
9. 1Q84 by Haruki ( Read more... )

2011 in books was a tale of gloomy and/or dense subject matter veering sharply into total escapism. As always they are listed in approximately chronological order of consumption, but this year I decided to try numbering them to know at a glance how many I read.

* = especially liked
~ = rereads I forgot I'd already read

1. The Family: The Story of ( Read more... )