Best of 2011: New York Times’ Top 10 Books

FICTION
Chad Harbach’s “The Art of Fielding”
Stephen King’s “11/22/63”
Karen Russell’s “Swamplandia!”
Eleanor Henderson’s “Ten Thousand Saints”
Tea Obreht’s “The Tiger’s Wife”

NONFICTION
Christopher Hitchens’ “Arguably: Essays”
Ian Brown’s “The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son”
Manning Marable’s “Malcolm X: A Life in Reinvention”
Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Amanda Foreman’s “A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War”

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