Favorite top 5 books read in 2011.

[Susie]

Some of my favorites for 2011...

1st. I'm Nobody: My Mother Said It,I no longer believe it by, Erma Steppe 5 STARS
2nd.The Shack. by, William Paul Young 5 STARS
3rd. Sarah's Key. by, Tatianade Rosnay 5 STARS
4th.The Stand. by, Stephen King 5 STARS
5th.The Giving Tree. by, Shel Silverstein 5 STARS

[librarian4Him02]

Books for 2011 that stuck with me (in no particular order) were:

1) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

2) Room - Emma Donoghue

3) How to be an American Housewife - Margaret Dilloway

4) The Tin Ticket - Deborah J. Swiss

5) The Last Christian - David Gregory

6) Think Biblically!: Recovering a Christian World View by John MacArthur (ed.)

I just couldn't narrow it down to only 5.

Juli

[Lin]

I had 13 5* reads in 2011, its hard to choose just 5!

[Sooz]

The Line, City of Thieves, Unquiet Ghosts, Tiger and East of Eden

[Amber]

1. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
2. The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
3. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
4. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
5. Carpe Diem - Autumn Cornwell

[Mekerei]

My Top Five Books for 2011

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Like Lin, it’s hard to choose just 5!

[Nathan]

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

[Tayla36]

The Golden Globe by John Varley
The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven
The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
Off Armeggedon Reef - David Weber
The Final Encyclopedia - Gordon R. Dickson

[michelle+8]

In no particular order:

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Hounded by Kevin Hearne

[Kelley]

1. Life - Keith Richards
2. Just Kids - Patti Smith
3. The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier
4. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
5. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls

[Deborah]

1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
2. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Room by Emma Donoghue

[Alex]

1. Room
2. Rachel's Holiday
3. Still Alice
4. Summer Sisters
5. Chocolat

[Suzy]

My Favorites that I read in 2011:
1) When She Woke- Hillary Jordan
2) The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
3) Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
4) Everything Matters! By Ron Currie Jr.
5) Blink by Malcom Gladwell

[Ginger]

1. The Hunger Games
2. The Help
3. Hush, Hush
4. Lover Unbound
5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

[Edgar]

Not in order but here are my five favorite (first-time read) books of 2011:


1) Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
2) American Pastoral
3) The Sun Also Rises
4) Freedom
5) Papeles Inesperados

[Priscilla]

1-The Eye of the World (Wheel of time is epic)
2-Pride and Prejudice
3-The Da Vinci Code
4-The Hunger Games
5-Lord of the rings series

[Vi]

1. Factotum by D.M. Cornish
2. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
3. Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher
4. The Help by Kathryne Stockett

[[deleted user]]

In the order that I read them:

1. The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
2. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
3. How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
5. Cleaning Nabokov's House by Leslie Daniels

[Matt]

1. A Song of Ice and Fire (5 books)
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Animal Farm
4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
5. Flight of the Nighthawks

[Kate]

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The History of Love

Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me: A Memoir. . . of Sorts

A Mother's Story

Out of My Mind

[Susan]

I wasn't part of the group last year, but I still read quite a number of books. My favorite 5:
Room, The Redbreast, We Were the Mulvaneys, Don't Look Back, The Keeper of Lost Causes

[Susie]

Has anyone read Sarah's Key or I'm Nobody. Both of these are great books. Also .. God has Daughters,Too. Great books. Soooooooo many books so little time.

[Maphead]

That's a tough one. But here it goes:
1. Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan
2. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement by David Brooks
3. Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
4. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird
5. A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran by Reza Kahlili

Feel free to drop by my blog if you would like to read my reviews of theses book as well as the rest of my top ten.
http://maphead.wordpress.com/2011/12/...

[Emma]

So it's only three, but I didn't read as much in 2011. That is why I am aiming to read 50 books in 2012!

[Julie]

My top 5 that I read in 2011:

[Michelle]

Also in no particular order:

1. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
2. Hunger Games
3. The Good Earth - Buck
4. Collected Poems of Philip Levine
5. My Life in France - Julia Child

[Kathleen]

1. Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
2. Lonesome Dove
3. The Wives of Henry VIII
4. Exit the Actress
5. The Second Duchess

[Katelynn]

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[Patricia]

Not One of Us
Ain't No Sunshine
The Pawn
Douglass' Women
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

[Sandy]

I am not sure if I can keep it to only 5!

1. Deliverance from Evil
2. World Without End
3. Daughters of the Witching Hill
4. The Vanishing Point
5. Doc