Best 3 Books I Read in 2011

Ask me tomorrow and I might change my mind, but at the moment, these are my three favorite books that I read in 2011. I chose each one for a different reason.

1. A Madness of Angels: Or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin. This is a fantasy novel, and urban fantasy in the truest sense because the magic is drawn from the city. It reminds me of the comic Hellblazer in some ways, but it's more wondrous, deeper and richer, and in the end much more hopeful. Griffin, who writes...