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Most Popular Reviews - 2011


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2011, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2011

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
  2. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee
  3. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  4. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  5. 1Q84, Murakami Haruki
  6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
  7. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet
  8. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  9. Q & A, Vikas Swarup
  10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
  11. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki
  12. Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain
  13. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  14. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
  15. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  16. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
  17. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  18. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
  19. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  20. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
  21. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki
  22. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
  23. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki
  24. Snow, Orhan Pamuk
  25. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka
  26. Proof, David Auburn
  27. Saturday, Ian McEwan
  28. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  29. 'Art', Yasmina Reza
  30. Spies, Michael Frayn
  31. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
  32. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
  33. The Children's Book, A.S.Byatt
  34. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane
  35. My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
  36. The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White
  37. Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
  38. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  39. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  40. In Defense of Globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati
  41. Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier
  42. King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild
  43. 2666, Roberto Bolaño
  44. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
  45. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
  46. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  47. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  48. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  49. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
  50. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo

      Previous month's position given in brackets.
      Not applicable ("n.a.") indicates book is new.
      "-" indicates book was not among top 50 reviews.

December, 2011

  1. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (8)
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (16)
  3. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (3)
  4. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  5. 1Q84, Murakami Haruki (1)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (4)
  7. Atonement, Ian McEwan (5)
  8. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet (9)
  9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (8)
  10. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (6)
  11. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (13)
  12. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (14)
  13. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (10)
  14. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (19)
  15. Antichrista, Amélie Nothomb (-)

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November, 2011

  1. 1Q84, Murakami Haruki (1)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  3. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (4)
  4. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (5)
  5. Atonement, Ian McEwan (8)
  6. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (6)
  7. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, Tsutsui Yasutaka (21)
  8. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (10)
  9. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet (3)
  10. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (11)
  11. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (9)
  12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (17)
  13. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (14)
  14. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (13)
  15. Proof, David Auburn (19)

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October, 2011

  1. 1Q84, Murakami Haruki (17)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  3. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet (3)
  4. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (9)
  5. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  6. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (4)
  7. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (14)
  8. Atonement, Ian McEwan (5)
  9. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (11)
  10. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (8)
  11. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (13)
  12. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7)
  13. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (16)
  14. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (10)
  15. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (28)

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September, 2011

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  2. The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White (15)
  3. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet (2)
  4. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (5)
  5. Atonement, Ian McEwan (10)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  7. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (7)
  8. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (13)
  9. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (19)
  10. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (25)
  11. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (3)
  12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (9)
  13. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (23)
  14. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (37)
  15. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (12)

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August, 2011

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  2. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet (1)
  3. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (27)
  4. The Magician King, Lev Grossman (n.a.)
  5. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (21)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (4)
  7. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (3)
  8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (8)
  9. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (7)
  10. Atonement, Ian McEwan (15)
  11. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (9)
  12. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (5)
  13. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (16)
  14. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (17)
  15. The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White (18)

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July, 2011

  1. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet (16)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (1)
  3. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (8)
  4. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (2)
  5. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (12)
  6. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (n.a.)
  7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (7)
  8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (-)
  9. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (15)
  10. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (-)
  11. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (4)
  12. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King (-)
  13. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (18)
  14. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (13)
  15. Atonement, Ian McEwan (3)

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June, 2011

  1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  2. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (4)
  3. Atonement, Ian McEwan (5)
  4. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (66)
  5. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (8)
  6. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (67)
  7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (11)
  8. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (13)
  9. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (-)
  10. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (3)
  11. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (-)
  12. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (9)
  13. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell (27)
  14. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (6)
  15. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (18)

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May, 2011

  1. Mygale (Tarantula), Thierry Jonquet (-)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (3)
  3. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2)
  4. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (4)
  5. Atonement, Ian McEwan (5)
  6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (10)
  7. Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon (38)
  8. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (6)
  9. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (8)
  10. The Snowman, Jo Nesbø (n.a.)
  11. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (7)
  12. The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi (n.a.)
  13. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (12)
  14. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami Haruki (18)
  15. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (11)

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April, 2011

  1. Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain (1)
  2. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (3)
  3. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (2)
  4. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (6)
  5. Atonement, Ian McEwan (5)
  6. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (11)
  7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (8)
  8. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (10)
  9. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (4)
  10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (9)
  11. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (7)
  12. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (13)
  13. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (14)
  14. Proof, David Auburn (31)
  15. Snow, Orhan Pamuk (25)

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March, 2011

  1. Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain (-)
  2. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (3)
  3. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2)
  4. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (9)
  5. Atonement, Ian McEwan (6)
  6. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (7)
  7. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (15)
  8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (4)
  9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (5)
  10. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (14)
  11. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (11)
  12. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (18)
  13. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (24)
  14. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (25)
  15. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (17)

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February, 2011

  1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (1)
  2. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2)
  3. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (4)
  4. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (5)
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (3)
  6. Atonement, Ian McEwan (8)
  7. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (10)
  8. Out of my Head (Unknown), Didier van Cauwelaert (45)
  9. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (12)
  10. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (7)
  11. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (11)
  12. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (6)
  13. 1Q84, Murakami Haruki (14)
  14. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (20)
  15. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (30)

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January, 2011

  1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (1)
  2. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (6)
  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (5)
  4. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (4)
  5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery (7)
  6. Freedom, Jonathan Franzen (2)
  7. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (3)
  8. Atonement, Ian McEwan (9)
  9. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (11)
  10. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (8)
  11. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (13)
  12. Norwegian Wood, Murakami Haruki (10)
  13. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (30)
  14. 1Q84, Murakami Haruki (n.a.)
  15. The Wittgenstein House, Bernhard Leitner (12)


     (See also the current bestseller list, and for annual and older lists, see the 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 lists.)

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