Books of the Year 2011
Saturday December 31, 2011 in books read 2011 |
In no particular order, my top ten reads of 2011.
- The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
- A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
- Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch