2011 Book Award Winners

Thirteen chapters, each a self contained story, following a loose constellation of people connected to Bennie Salazar, a record executive who was...

Tony Webster is retired, amicably divorced, and content in a way he mistakes for wisdom. Then a solicitor's letter arrives: the mother of a...

Esch Batiste is fifteen, motherless, surrounded by brothers in the junk strewn woods of Bois Sauvage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and she has...

Natalia is a young doctor crossing a new border in a Balkan country the novel declines to name, carrying vaccines to an orphanage, when word comes...

Binocular Vision gathers thirty four stories by Edith Pearlman, twenty one chosen from her three earlier collections and thirteen new, and it was...

The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg brings four books into one volume of nearly a thousand pages, published by Picador in 2010: Transactions...

Siddhartha Mukherjee calls The Emperor of All Maladies a biography of cancer, and he means the term literally, tracing the disease as a single...

Eric Foner traces Abraham Lincoln's changing views on slavery across his entire political life in The Fiery Trial, beginning with his early...

Ron Chernow follows George Washington from a Virginia childhood cut short by his father's early death, which denied him the formal English...

In the winter of 1417, an unemployed papal secretary named Poggio Bracciolini rode into a German monastery hunting old manuscripts and found a copy...

Between 1958 and 1962, Mao's Great Leap Forward, the campaign to catapult China past Britain by collectivizing everything and conscripting the...

It begins on a beach in Cornwall, with the author watching breakers with his young daughter and realizing he cannot answer her simplest question...

The Best of It draws from forty five years of Kay Ryan's work, gathering her tightly wound, aphoristic poems about persistence, paradox, and the...

Black Cat Bone takes its title from the blues, the hoodoo talisman that is supposed to grant luck in love or make its carrier invisible, and the...

Historians at Oxford in 2060 travel to the past to observe. Three of them go to the Second World War: Michael to Dover for the Dunkirk evacuation,...

Morwenna Phelps is fifteen, Welsh, walks with a stick, and has been sent to an English boarding school she loathes, having run from a mother who...

Houston drowns first. Three hurricanes in quick succession put the city underwater, the chemical corridor's tanks rupture into the flood, and out...

Who Fears Death is set in a desert Africa long after some catastrophe, in a world divided by slavery and genocide, where the Nuru rule and the...

Michael has not spoken since he was eight years old, since the day of the trauma the whole book circles and withholds, the event the Michigan...

In 1936, twelve year old Abilene Tucker arrives alone by train in Manifest, Kansas, sent there for the summer by her father Gideon, a man who has...

Amos McGee works at the city zoo and keeps the same careful routine with five animal friends every single day: a game of chess with the elephant, a...

The Great Enigma is Robin Fulton's English translation of Tomas Tranströmer's collected poetry, gathering five decades of short, tightly built...