The Books of 2011

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• [December]
• 112. The Adventures of Tintin: The Broken Ear - Herge
• 111. Just Kids - Patti Smith
• 110. A Prologue to Love - Taylor Caldwell (re-read)
• 109. The Misanthrope's Guide to Life (Go Away!) - Meghan Rowland and Chris Turner-Neal
• 108. The Mist - Stephen King
• 107. Darkness Visible - William Styron
• 106. Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
• 105. I'm Not the New Me - Wendy McClure
• 104. Last Exit Before Toll - Neal Shaffer
• 103. An Old-Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
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• [November]
• 102. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father - John Matteson
• 101. Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin
• 100. Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
• 99. Everyday Foods in War Time - Mary Swartz Rose (Foodies' Reading Challenge)
• 98. Joe - Larry Brown
• 97. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt (Canadian Book Challenge 5)
• 96. The Blue Sweater - Jacqueline Novogratz
• 95. Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick (Bookleaves Book Group)
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• [October]
• 94. U and I - Nicholson Baker
• 93. Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• 92. The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti - Rick Geary
• 91. The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans - Rick Geary
• 90. The Onion Field - Joseph Wambaugh
• 89. Untitled Thesis - Valerie Hamer
• 88. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood (Canadian Book Challenge 5)
• 87. Shock for the Secret Seven - Enid Blyton
• 86. Wilderness Tips - Margaret Atwood (Canadian Book Challenge 5)
• 85. Joshua Then and Now - Mordecai Richler (Canadian Book Challenge 5)
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• [September]
• 84. Please Don't Shoot My Dog - Jackie Cooper
• 83. The Jump-Off Creek - Molly Gloss
• 82. Are You Really Going To Eat That? - Robb Walsh (Foodies' Reading Challenge)
• 81. Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson
• 80. Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay (Bookleaves Book Group)
• 79. Dance on the Earth - Margaret Laurence (Canadian Book Challenge 5)
• 78. Puzzle for the Secret Seven - Enid Blyton (Cracked Spinz Book Group)
• 77. My Thoughts Be Bloody - Nora Titone
• 76. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
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• [August]
• 75. Becoming Jane Eyre - Sheila Kohler
• 74. Get Out of Bed! - Robert Munsch (Canadian Book Challenge 5, Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 73. Andrew's Loose Tooth - Robert Munsch (Canadian Book Challenge 5, Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 72. Show and Tell - Robert Munsch (Canadian Book Challenge 5, Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 71. Thomas' Snowsuit - Robert Munsch (Canadian Book Challenge 5, Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 70. I Have To Go! - Robert Munsch (Canadian Book Challenge 5, Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 69. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
• 68. Nashville Chrome - Rick Bass
• 67. Maria's Wedding - Nunzio De Filippis, Christina Weir and Jose Garibaldi
• 66. American Bee - James Maguire
• 65. Shit My Dad Says - Justin Halpern
• 64. Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood (Canadian Book Challenge 5)
• 63. The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
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• [July]
• 62. Here If You Need Me - Kate Braestrup
• 61. Sorry to be so Cheerful - Hildegarde Dolson
• 60. A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
• 59. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• 58. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir (Paris in July Challenge)
• 57. Rhett Butler's People - Donald McCaig
• 56. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
• 55. The Wilder Life - Wendy McClure
• 54. Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
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• [June]
• 53. 127 Hours - Aron Ralston
• 52. A Hell of a Woman - Jim Thompson
• 51. The Road Past Altamont - Gabrielle Roy (Canadian Book Challenge 4)
• 50. 50 Below Zero - Robert Munsch (Canadian Book Challenge 4, re-read)
• 49. In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes
• 48. Go The F**k To Sleep (audiobook) - Adam Mansbach, Samuel L. Jackson
• 47. A Visit from the Good Squad - Jennifer Egan (The Pulitzer Project)
• 46. Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie
• 45. Spoken from the Heart - Laura Bush
• 44. John Barleycorn - Jack London (Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 43. The Help - Kathryn Stockett (Bookleaves Book Group)
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• [May]
• 42. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (re-read)
• 41. Room - Emma Donoghue (Canadian Book Challenge 4)
• 40. My Antonia - Willa Cather (The Western Read-Along Challenge)
• 39. Martin Eden - Jack London (Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 38. Hardboiled Hollywood - Max Decharne
• 37. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (Bookleaves Book Group)
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• [April]
• 36. Scott O'Dell (Who Wrote That? Series) - Hal Marcovitz
• 35. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (re-read, The Newbery Project)
• 34. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell (Bookleaves Book Group, The Newbery Project, Reading Madly Challenge)
• 33. The Grifters - Jim Thompson
• 32. Cake Wrecks - Jen Yates (Foodies' Reading Challenge)
• 31. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
• 30. Happy Birthday Or Whatever - Annie Choi
• 29. The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney (Canadian Book Challenge 4)
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• [March]
• 28. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Cracked Spinz Book Group)
• 27. 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
• 26. Lucky - Wes Tooke
• 25. Another Bullshit Night In Suck City - Nick Flynn
• 24. True Grit - Charles Portis (Bookleaves Book Club, re-read, Page-to-Screen Challenge)
• 23. The Cariboo Horses - Alfred Purdy (Canadian Book Challenge 4)
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• [February]
• 22. Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir - Graham Roumieu (Canadian Book Challenge 4)
• 21. Carrie - Stephen King (re-read)
• 20. The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton Readalong, The Pulitzer Project, Page-to-Screen Challenge)
• 19. Adventures with the Buddha - Jeffrey Paine (Support Your Local Library Challenge)
• 18. Your Right To Be Beautiful - Tonya Zavasta
• 17. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen (Bookleaves Book Club)
• 16. To Paris Never Again - Al Purdy (Canadian Book Challenge 4)
• 15. The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
• 14. Book Lust To Go - Nancy Pearl
• 13. Mother Love, Deadly Love - Anne McDonald Maier
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• [January]
• 12. Parched - Heather King
• 11. The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason (Bookleaves Book Club)
• 10. Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell (Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge)
• 9. White Noise - Don DeLillo (Bookleaves Book Club)
• 8. Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
• 7. Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
• 6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth - Jeff Kinney (TBR Challenge)
• 5. Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens (TBR Challenge)
• 4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (TBR Challenge)
• 3. A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler (The Pulitzer Project, TBR Challenge)
• 2. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (Bookleaves Book Club, TBR Challenge)
• 1. The Best of Everything - Rona Jaffe (Reading Madly Challenge, TBR Challenge)