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2011 in Books

January
1. December 24 – January 1: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larsson
2. January 1 – 24: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3. January 13 – 16: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
4. January 16 – 17: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
5. January 17 - 25: The Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis
6. January 18 – 27: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
7. January 21 - 22: The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
8. January 27 – 28: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
9. January 28 – 30: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

February
10. January 30 – February 1: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
11. February 1 – 7: Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami
12. February 7 – 10: Buddha by Deepak Chopra
13. February 8 – 12: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
14. February 10 – 22: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
15. February 20 – 21: Plainsong for Caitlin by Elizabeth M. Rees

March
16. February 23 – March 3: From Copper to Gold by Dorothy Freeman Gilstrap
17. March 5 – 10: The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann
18. March 14 - 16: True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
19. March 16 - 20: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
20. March 19 - 21: The Abortionist’s Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde

April
21. March 23 - April 4: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
22. April 4 - 9: They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers by Roméo Dallaire
23. April 9 - 11: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
24. April 11 - 13: Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men by Souad
25. April 23: Invisible by Hugues de Montalembert

May
26. April 14 - May 10: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
27. May 10 - 12: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
28. May 14: Various Positions by Martha Schabas
29. May 17 - 18: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
30. May 18 - 20: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
31. May 20: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
32. May 21 - 23: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
33. May 23 - 29: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

June
34. May 29 - June 6: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
35. June 6 - 10: The Quiet Room: A Journey out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller
36. June 10 - 14: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
37. June 10 - 19: Quarantine by Rahul Mehta
38. June 14 - 19: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
39. June 19 - 25: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
40. June 19 - 26: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen

July
41. June 26 - July 1: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
42. June 26 - July 2: Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure compiled by Smith Magazine
43. July 2 - 10: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
44. July 11 - 15: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
45. July 15 - 21: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

August
46. July 22 - August 8: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
47. July 27 - August 8: They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak with Judy A. Bernstein
48. August 9 - 12: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
49. August 13 - 18: Room by Emma Donoghue
50. August 17 - 19: Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien
51. August 20 - 24: Maze Runner by James Dashner
52. August 23 - 29: The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
53. August 24 - 30: Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl by Anonymous

September
54. August 30 - September 3: Franny and Zooey: A Novel by J.D. Salinger

October
55. September 3 - October 3: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
56. September 26 - October 11: Portals to Freedom by Howard Colby Ives

November
57. October 11 - November 3: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

December
58. November 22 - December 7: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
59. December 15 - 22: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
60. December 7 - 23: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
61. December 23 - 27: Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden


2010 in Books

January
1. Beowulf by Anonymous
2. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
3. Story of Baha’u’llah, The: Promised One of All Religions - Druzelle Cederquist
4. Spook by Mary Roach

February
5. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
7. The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs

March
8. Stitches by David Small
9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

April
10. March 14 - April 12: Crackpot by Adele Wiseman

May
11. April 12 - May 2: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
12. May 2 - May 11: Thief in the Night by William Sears
13. May 11 - May 19: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. May 20 - May 25: Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
15. May 25 - May 31: God Is: My Search for Faith in a Secular World by David Adams Richards

June
16. May 31 - June 14: The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect by Daphne Bramham
17. June 2 - June 26: Prophet’s Daughter by Janet Khan
18. June 26 - June 28: God Loves Laughter by William Sears

July
19. June 28 - July 1: Atonement by Ian McEwan
20. July 1 - July 3: Not Without my Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
21. July 19 - July 23: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
22. July 27 – 30: Hammer of Eden by Ken Follett
23. July 29 - 31: The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

August
24. July 3 – August 1: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
25. July 23 - August 2: A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
26. August 2: The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
27. August 2 - 8 : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
28. August 4: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadler
29. August 8 – 10: Ring by Koji Suzuki
30. August 11 – 26: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
31. August 17 – 25: A Son of the Circus by John Irving
32. August 26 – 27: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
33. August 27 - 30: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

September
34. August 30 – September 3: Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
35. September 4 – 6: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
36. September 7: The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
37. September 7 - 10: All Flags Flying – William Sears
38. September 10 - 13: A Cry From the Heart by William Sears
39. September 13 - 16: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
40. September 17 - 21: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
41. September 23 – 26: The Barred Road by Adele De Leeuw

October
42. October 2 – 4: Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
October 4 - 5: Let the Right One In by John Lindquist (abandoned)
43. October 6 – 7: After Dark by Haruki Murakami
44. October 7 - 11: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
45. October 11 – 13: A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury
46. October 13 – 19: Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
47. October 19 – 25: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
48. October 25: Chapter 0 by JK Rowling
49. October 25 - 28: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
50. October 28 – 30: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

November
51. October 30 – November 1: Last Man Down: The Fireman’s Story by Richard ‘Pitch’ Picciotto
52. November 1 - 10: Watership Down by Richard Adams
53. November 10 - 15: My Son’s Story by Nadine Gordimer
54. November 15 - 23: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
55. November 18 – 19: My African Heart by Bonnie Fitzpatrick-Moore
56. November 23 – 24: Climbing out of the Rabbit Hole by Terry Woods
57. November 24 – 27: The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin
58. November 27 - 30: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

December
59. November 30 – December 1: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
60. December 1 – 5: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
61. December 4 – 9: Confessions of a Wicked Step-Sister by Gregory Maguire
62. December 9 – 12: The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp
63. December 12 – 15: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
64. December 15 – 16: Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
65. December 16 – 17: In Grandfather’s Barn by William Sears
66. December 17 – 19: Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
67. December 18 – 20: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
68. December 19 – 21: The Worst Date Ever by Jane Bussmann
69. December 21 – 22: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway