2011 in Books

To say I was lax with reviewing this year is an understatement. I shall try to do better next year, but I make no promises. Nonetheless, here is the list of books I read this year. For my favourites, go here.

(*) denotes reread.

1. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
2. Fragments by Marilyn Monroe
3. Erotic Poems by Goethe (translated by David Luke)
4. And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
5. Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
6. The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love by Giovanni Boccaccio
7. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
8. How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk
9. Shopgirl by Steve Martin
10. Fever PItch by Nick Hornby
11. Sad Book by Michael Rosen
12. Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Howard Hibbett)
13. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
14. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
15. The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
17. The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
18. No one belongs here more than you. by Miranda July
19. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
20. Courage by J. M. Barrie
21. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
22. Revolution by Deb Olin Unferth
23. The Housekeeper & The Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)
24. The Double Helix by James D. Watson
25. The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
26. Ten Poems From Hafez by Jila Peacock
27. Poems of John Keats selected & introduced by Claire Tomalin
28. Amulet by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Chris Andrews)
29. The Essential Rilke selected & translated by Galway Kinnell & Hannah Liebmann
30. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
31. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
32. The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells
33. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
34. Letter to D by André Gorz
35. Chattering: Stories by Louise Stern
36. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
37. Lopsided by Meredith Norton
38. Paper Towns by John Green
39. Invisible by Hugues De Montalembert
40. The Giver by Lois Lowry
41. Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras
42. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
43. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
44. It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
45. The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy
46. Why We Need Love edited by Simon Van Booy
47. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
48. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan & Rachel Cohn
49. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So by Mark Vonnegut
50. Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter edited by Simon Van Booy
51. How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
52. The Outsider by Albert Camus (translated by Joseph Laredo)
53. Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre (translated by Carol Macomber)
54. In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
55. Blood, Tin, Straw by Sharon Olds
56. One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
57. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
58. Fires by Raymond Carver
59. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
60. The Divinity Gene by Matthew J. Trafford
61. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
62. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
63. Poem of the Deep Song by Federico García Lorca (translated by Ralph Angel)
64. Rain by Don Paterson
65. A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
66. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
67. Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
68. Behind the Mask by Lousia May Alcott
69. The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
70. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
71. Persuasion by Jane Austen
72. Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran
73. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
74. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
75. The Collector by John Fowles
76. Bed by David Whitehouse
77. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
78. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
79. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 
80. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry*
81. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
82. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
83. The House on Salt Hay Road by Carin Clevidence
84. The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi Durrow
85. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
86. Regeneration by Pat Barker
87. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
88. In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
89. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
90. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
91. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Lousia May Alcott*
92. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata (translated by Edward G. Seidensticker)
93. On Suicide by David Hume
94. My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
95. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
96. The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
97. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
98. Emma by Jane Austen
99. When We Were Fifty by Christopher Matthew
100. Granta #115: The F Word by Various Writers
101. Even The Dogs by Jon McGregor
102. Eros Unbound by Anaïs Nin
103. Magnetism by F. Scott Fitzgerald
104. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
105. Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer
106. The Coma by Alex Garland
107. The Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman
108. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
109. Divergent by Veronica Roth
110. Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
111. At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman
112. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
113. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling and Paul de Man)
114. The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Stanley Lombardo)
115. A Very Short Introduction: Classical Mythology by Helen Morales
116. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
117. No Way Back by Theodor Fontane (translated by Helen Chambers & Hugh Rorrison)
118. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
119. Oresteia by Aeschylus (translated by Christopher Collard)
120. Weight by Jeannette Winterson
121. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
122. Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo (translated by J. G. Nichols)
123. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos by John Berger
124. Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod (translated by M. L. West)
125. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
126. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
127. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
128. So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
129. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
130. Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
131. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
132. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
133. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien*
134. Five Dialogues by Plato (translated by G. M. A. Grube)
135. Birds and Lysistrata by Aritsophanes (translated by Stephen Halliwell)