Best Books of 2011

From The New York Times. Click the link for the list with a brief introduction to each.

FICTION

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson

The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht

NONFICTION

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens

The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman

For a longer list, 100 Notable Books of 2011.