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2011 BookBrowse Favorites
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Search results: The best new books - The Best Books of 2011
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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
by Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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| An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. |
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Life: An Exploded Diagram
by Mal Peet
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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| Can love survive a lifetime? With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, Mal Peet's latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime. |
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I Married You for Happiness
by Lily Tuck
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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| 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. |
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The Marriage Plot: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| 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 lives. |
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The Stranger's Child
by Alan Hollinghurst
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 7 Aug 2012
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| A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. |
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The Homecoming of Samuel Lake: A Novel
by Jenny Wingfield
Hardcover: Jul 2011
Paperback: 10 Jul 2012
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| 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 lasting work of fiction. |
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The Night Circus: A Novel
by Erin Morgenstern
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 3 Jul 2012
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| The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night... |
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Jamrach's Menagerie: A Novel
by Carol Birch
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 12 Jun 2012
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| 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. |
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