These are books I’ve finished reading in 2011. Titles are linked to any comments I’ve made about the books elsewhere on my pages.
January
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do created by Samantha Ettus
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
February
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
March
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
The Chocolate War by Richard Cormier
The Fall by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
April
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
Chuck Norris Cannot Be Stopped by Ian Spector
1001 Facts That Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: the Ultimate Bathroom Reader by Cary McNeal
No Sneakers at the Office: A Practical Handbook for the Business World by Adam T. Scholl
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
May
A Discovery of Witches: A Novel by Deborah Harkness
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow: A “What’s Happening to My Body?” Book for Younger Boys by Lynda Madaras
June
How to Write a Dirty Story by Susie Bright
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
July
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
The Good Neighbors: Book One, Kin by Holly Black & Ted Naifeh
The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
August
The Poison Eaters by Holly Black
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Ida B … And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
September
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
October
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud by Jonathan Safran Foer
November
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Buying Prescription Drugs Online: Avoiding a Prescription for Disaster by Kate J. Chase
December
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy