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2011 Best of Fiction: The Complete List

FICTION

LAST MAN IN TOWER

by Aravind Adiga

Adiga nails the culture of corruption. How exciting to watch a writer come into his own, surpassing the achievement of his... Full review >

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FICTION

UNTIL THE DAWN'S LIGHT

by Aharon Appelfeld

A beautiful and affecting novel, Tolstoyan in its compassion for humanity. Full review >

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FICTION

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

by Julian Barnes

A knockout. What at first seems like a polite meditation on childhood and memory leaves the reader asking difficult... Full review >

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FICTION

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS YOU

by Elizabeth Berg

Berg’s masterful portraits and keen insight makes for a memorable read. Full review >

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MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

NOW YOU SEE ME

by S.J. Bolton

Bolton (Blood Harvest, 2010, etc.) provides excruciating tension and much else. Romantics can drool over Jonesbury’s... Full review >

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THRILLER & SUSPENSE

BACK OF BEYOND

by C.J. Box

Once again, Box provides the complete suspense package: unobtrusively slick detection, buckets of surprises and mounting... Full review >

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FICTION

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

by Justin Cartwright

Tubal and Co. is a small, ancient private bank in London, and its longtime chief, Sir Harry Trevelyan-Tubal, has drafted his... Full review >

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MYSTERY & DETECTIVE

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION

by Marcia Clark

A 15-year-old girl is raped. The Latino boy she’d been tutoring is the sole suspect. She’s rich, the daughter of Frank... Full review >

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FICTION

THE GRIEF OF OTHERS

by Leah Hager Cohen

With gorgeous prose, Cohen skillfully takes us from past to present and back again as she explores the ramifications of... Full review >

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FICTION

OPEN CITY

by Teju Cole

Determining whether the novel's main character is hero, villain or somewhere in between might require the reader to start... Full review >

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