PW's Best Adult Books of 2011

Publishers Weekly is the trade journal whose job it is to review hundreds of books each month.  They've put out their Top 100 Books of 2011 list.  We'll just post the Top 10 and a smattering of the others.

The Marriage Plot (Hardcover)

By Jeffrey Eugenides
$28.00
ISBN-13: 9780374203054
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 10/2011
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Nikki at Pudd'nhead and I have gone round and round about this book.  I loved it.  She hated it.  But then again she loved A Discovery of Witches, and me... not so much.--Kelly

The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)

By Donald Ray Pollock
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780385535045
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Published: Doubleday, 7/2011
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We had him in for a signing earlier this year and what a swell fellow.  We've got signed copies of Devil.. and Knockemstiff.  Just specify "signed" in the comments field at checkout.

State of Wonder (Hardcover)

By Ann Patchett
$26.99
ISBN-13: 9780062049803
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Published: Harper, 6/2011
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After the Apocalypse: Stories (Paperback)

By Maureen F. McHugh
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781931520294
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Published: Small Beer Press, 10/2011
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I love anything Kelly Link does and she and Gavin Grant's publishing company Small Beer is just top notch.--Kelly

Bossypants (Hardcover)

By Tina Fey
$26.99
ISBN-13: 9780316056861
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Published: Reagan Arthur Books, 4/2011
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This cover creeps me out but I'm pretty sure Tina Fey planned it that way.--Kelly

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)

By Robert K. Massie
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9780679456728
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Published: Random House, 11/2011
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Not sure if anyone knows Russian history better than Robert Massie.

There But For The (Hardcover)

By Ali Smith
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780375424090
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Published: Pantheon, 9/2011
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Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 (Hardcover)

By Paul Hendrickson
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9781400041626
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Published: Knopf, 9/2011
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One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Binyavanga Wainaina
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9781555975913
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Published: Graywolf Press, 7/2011
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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Hardcover)

By Christopher Hitchens
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9781455502776
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Published: Twelve, 9/2011
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The Wandering Falcon (Hardcover)

By Jamil Ahmad
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594488276
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 10/2011
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Paperback)

By Alina Bronsky, Tim Mohr
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781609450069
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Published: Europa Editions, 4/2011
Alina Bronsky is so good at capturing the bleakness of modern Russia, but still with a sense of humor. And she's, like, 25 or something.

The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)

By Patrick deWitt
$24.99
ISBN-13: 9780062041265
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Published: Ecco, 5/2011
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Say Her Name (Hardcover)

By Francisco Goldman
$24.00
ISBN-13: 9780802119810
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Published: Grove Press, 4/2011
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Volt: Stories (Paperback)

By Alan Heathcock
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781555975777
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Published: Graywolf Press, 3/2011
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The End of Everything (Hardcover)

By Megan Abbott
$23.99
ISBN-13: 9780316097796
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Published: Reagan Arthur Books, 4/2011
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Scott Phillips and Jed Ayers love Megan Abbott and that's enough of an endorsement for me.--Kelly

The Most Dangerous Thing (Hardcover)

By Laura Lippman
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780061706516
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Published: William Morrow, 8/2011
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We've got a signed copy of this.  Just specify "signed" in the comments field.

A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Hardcover)

By Louise Penny
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780312655457
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Published: Minotaur Books, 8/2011
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Daytripper (Paperback)

By Gabriel Ba, Fabio Moon
$19.99
ISBN-13: 9781401229696
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Published: Vertigo, 2/2011

Hark! A Vagrant (Hardcover)

By Kate Beaton
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9781770460607
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly, 9/2011

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (Hardcover)

By Brooke Gladstone, Josh Neufeld, Randy Jones
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780393077797
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2011
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Big Questions (Hardcover)

By Anders Nilsen
$69.95
ISBN-13: 9781770460447
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly, 4/2011
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Habibi (Hardcover)

By Craig Thompson
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9780375424144
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Published: Pantheon, 9/2011
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The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Hardcover)

By Deborah Baker
$23.00
ISBN-13: 9781555975821
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Published: Graywolf Press, 4/2011
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Blue Nights (Hardcover)

By Joan Didion
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307267672
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Published: Knopf, 11/2011
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This, THIS, has been selling like crazy.

Townie (Hardcover)

By Andre Dubus, III
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780393064667
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 2/2011
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Hardcover)

By Stephen J. Greenblatt
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780393064476
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/2011
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Life Itself: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Roger Ebert
$27.99
ISBN-13: 9780446584975
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 9/2011
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)

By James Gleick
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780375423727
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Published: Pantheon, 1/2011
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Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)

By Gabrielle Hamilton
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781400068722
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Published: Random House, 3/2011
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)

By Erik Larson
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780307408846
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Published: Crown, 5/2011
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Hardcover)

By Michael Lewis
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780393081817
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 10/2011
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)

By Charles C. Mann
$30.50
ISBN-13: 9780307265722
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Published: Knopf, 8/2011
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Hardcover)

By Manning Marable
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9780670022205
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Published: Viking Adult, 11/2010
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One of our best sellers this year.

Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography (Hardcover)

By Errol Morris
$40.00
ISBN-13: 9781594203015
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Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 9/2011

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend (Hardcover)

By Susan Orlean
$26.99
ISBN-13: 9781439190135
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 10/2011
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Hardcover)

By Jon Ronson
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9781594488016
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Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 5/2011
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Charles Dickens: A Life (Hardcover)

By Claire Tomalin
$36.00
ISBN-13: 9781594203091
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Published: Penguin Press HC, The, 10/2011
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