The Top 20 books of 2011 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Unbroken

A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

Hardcover: Nov 2010 | Paperback: Jul 2014

In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human...

I Married You for Happiness

by Lily Tuck

Hardcover: Sep 2011 | Paperback: Sep 2012

Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet.

The Marriage Plot

A Novel

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Hardcover: Oct 2011 | Paperback: Sep 2012

With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own...

The Stranger's Child

by Alan Hollinghurst

Hardcover: Oct 2011 | Paperback: Aug 2012

A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

A Novel

by Jenny Wingfield

Hardcover: Jul 2011 | Paperback: Jul 2012

With characters who spring to life as vividly as if they were members of one's own family, and with the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic - and triumphant - aspects of human nature, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is a memorable and ...

Jamrach's Menagerie

A Novel

by Carol Birch

Hardcover: Jun 2011 | Paperback: Jun 2012

A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.

Turn of Mind

by Alice LaPlante

Hardcover: Jul 2011 | Paperback: May 2012

A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired surgeon with dementia who clings to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame and unspeakable loss.

The Greater Journey

Americans in Paris

by David McCullough

Hardcover: May 2011 | Paperback: May 2012

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ...

Luminarium

A Novel

by Alex Shakar

Hardcover: Aug 2011 | Paperback: May 2012

Do you feel... Your life is without purpose? Your days are without meaning? There's something about existence you're just not getting?

The Last Werewolf

by Glen Duncan

Hardcover: Jul 2011 | Paperback: Apr 2012

Here is a powerful, definitive new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerising and incredibly sexy. In Jake, Glen Duncan has given us a werewolf for the twenty-first century—a man whose deeds can only be described as monstrous but who is in ...

Say Her Name

A Novel

by Francisco Goldman

Hardcover: Apr 2011 | Paperback: Apr 2012

Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in the summer of 2005. Two years later she died of a tragic accident. Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a ...

The Language of Flowers

A Novel

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Hardcover: Aug 2011 | Paperback: Apr 2012

A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she ...