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

Amazon Top Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2011

• A Dance With Dragons - George R. R. Martin
  
• Among Others - Jo Walton
  
• Embassytown - China Mieville
  
• Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
  
• Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
  
• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  
• The Magician King: A Novel - Lev Grossman
  
• The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
  
• Vortex - Robert Charles Wilson

Amazon Top Romance Books of 2011

• Archangel's Blade - Nalini Singh
  
• Breaking Point - Pamela Clare
  
• Dragon Bound - Thea Harrison
  
• Heart of Steel - Meljean Brook
  
• Seduction of a Highland Lass - Maya Banks
  
• Silk Is For Seduction - Loretta Chase
  
• The Next Always - Nora Roberts
  
• Unveiled - Courtney Milan

Amazon Top Science Books of 2011

• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
  
• Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 - Michio Kaku
  
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - Steven Pinker
  
• The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
  
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick Staff
  
• The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
  
• Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength - Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

Amazon Top History Books of 2011

• 1861: The Civil War Awakening - Adam Goodheart
  
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - Robert K. Massie
  
• Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard
  
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - Erik Larson
  
• Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II - Mitchell Zuckoff
  
• The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean - David Abulafia
  
• The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris - David Mccullough

Amazon Top Nonfiction Books of 2011

• Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
  
• Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks - Ken Jennings
  
• Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer
  
• Those Guys Have All the Fun - James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales
  
• What It Is Like to Go to War - Karl Marlantes

Amazon Top Mystery & Thrillers of 2011

• 11/22/63 - Stephen King
  
• A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny
  
• Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel - S. J. Watson
  
• Feast Day of Fools - James Lee Burke
  
• Reamde - Neal Stephenson
  
• Sister - Rosamund Lupton
  
• The Affair: A Reacher Novel - Lee Child
  
• The Most Dangerous Thing - Laura Lippman
  
• The Night Strangers - Chris Bohjalian
  
• Turn of Mind - Alice LaPlante

Amazon Top Literature & Fiction of 2011

• Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel - Russell Banks
  
• Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin
  
• The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje
  
• The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan
  
• The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
  
• The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
  
• The Sisters Brothers - Patrick Dewitt

Amazon Top Books of 2011

• 22 Britannia Road - Amanda Hodgkinson
  
• American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt - Daniel Rasmussen
  
• Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef - Gabrielle Hamilton
  
• Blue Nights - Joan Didion
  
• Bossypants - Tina Fey
  
• Cain - Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
  
• Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
  
• Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller
  
• Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President - Ron Suskind
  
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
  
• Delirium - Lauren Oliver
  
• Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness - Frank Brady
  
• Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout - Philip Connors
  
• Galore - Michael Crummey
  
• Go the Fuck to Sleep - Adam Mansbach
  
• Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India - Joseph Lelyveld
  
• I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Steve Earle
  
• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives - Steven Levy
  
• Jacqueline Kennedy - Caroline Kennedy, Michael R. Beschloss
  
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
  
• Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi
  
• My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store - Ben Ryder Howe
  
• Nightwoods - Charles Frazier
  
• Onward - Howard Schultz, Joanne Lesley Gordon
  
• River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
  
• Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
  
• The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
  
• The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock
  
• The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman
  
• The Empty Family: Stories - Colm Toibin
  
• The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson
  
• The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta
  
• The Paris Wife: A Novel - Paula McLain
  
• The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater
  
• The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
  
• The Snowman - Jo Nesboü, Don Bartlett
  
• The Submission - Amy Waldman
  
• The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
  
• The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan - Kim Barker
  
• The Tragedy of Arthur: A Novel - Arthur Phillips
  
• The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
  
• Then Again - Diane Keaton
  
• Townie: A Memoir - Andre Dubus, Iii
  
• We the Animals - Justin Torres
  
• West of Here - Jonathan Evison
  
• While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction - Kurt Vonnegut