Washington Post Top 10 of 2011

• Doc - Mary Doria Russell
  
• Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 - Paul Hendrickson
  
• State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
  
• Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

NY Times Top 10 of 2011

• A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman
  
• Arguably: Selected Essays - Christopher Hitchens
  
• The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son - Ian Brown
  
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - Manning Marable
  
• Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
  
• Ten Thousand Saints - Eleanor Henderson
  
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
  
• The Art of Fielding: A Novel - Chad Harbach
  
• The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
  
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Amazon Top Young Adult of 2011

• A World Without Heroes - Brandon Mull
  
• Breadcrumbs - Anne Ursu, Erin Mcguire
  
• Okay for Now - Gary D. Schmidt
  
• The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales - Chris Van Allsburg, Lemony Snicket
  
• The Emerald Atlas - John Stephens
  
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan
  
• The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan