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2011 Best of Fiction: The Complete List (page 2)

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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
Kirkus Star THE SCRAPBOOK OF FRANKIE PRATT
by Caroline Preston
"Lighter than lightweight but undeniably fun, largely because Preston is having so much fun herself."
Selecting from her own collection of period mementos, Preston (Gatsby's Girl, 2006, etc.) creates a literal scrapbook for a young New Hampshire woman coming of age in the 1920s. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Star 1Q84
by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
"Orwellian dystopia, sci-fi, the modern world (terrorism, drugs, apathy, pop novels)--all blend in this dreamlike, strange and wholly unforgettable epic."
"Things are not what they seem." If Murakami's (After Dark, 2008, etc.) ambitious, sprawling and thoroughly stunning new novel had a tagline, that would be it. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 2011
Kirkus Star THE INFERNALS
by John Connolly

Bestselling thriller writer Connolly continues his change-of-pace saga of an ordinary English boy, his loyal dog and their encounters with demons and dark lords in this devilishly entertaining follow-up to The Gates (2009). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 11, 2011
Kirkus Star 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 questions about how often we strive to paint ourselves in the best possible light."
A man's closest-held beliefs about a friend, former lover and himself are undone in a subtly devastating novella from Barnes. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 11, 2011
Kirkus Star THE MARRIAGE PLOT
by Jeffrey Eugenides
"Dazzling work—Eugenides continues to show that he is one of the finest of contemporary novelists."
A stunning novel—erudite, compassionate and penetrating in its analysis of love relationships. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 11, 2011
SNUFF
by Terry Pratchett
"A treat no fan of Discworld--and there are boatloads of them--will want to miss."
Pratchett's new Discworld (Unseen Academicals, 2009, etc.) novel--the umpteenth, but who's counting?--features the Duke of Ankh, otherwise known as Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, whose estimable wife, Lady Sybil, decrees that they shall take a vacation at her ancestral estate in the country. Read full book review >