Donna's Top Reads of 2011

I was a little off my pace from 2010 and finished 26 books in 2011. Here are my favorite 8, in order of when I read them:

Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

Rachel's 2011 Top Ten

In alphabetical order by author:

• The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
• Open City, Teja Cole
• Townie, Andre Dubus IIIA
• Visit From the Goon Squad, Jenifer Egan
• Gun with Occasional Music, Jonathan Letham
• The Leftovers, Tom Perotta
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
• Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
• My Own Country, Abraham Verghese
• Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson