There are many sources for this so the list will be varied. Also, I am only listing the ones in my library or that I’d like to read. If I come across one that’s not listed, I’ll add it later.

Ones I have read are in bold. I’ll provide a link if I’ve reviewed the book too.

Sources used:

• RUSA (ALA’s Reference and User Services Division)
• New York Times
• Publishers Weekly
• Christian Science Monitor

2011 Fiction

The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
The Buddha In the Attic – Julie Otsuka
The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
11/22/63 – Stephen King
The Last Werewolf – Glen Duncan
The Leftovers – Tom Perrotta
The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson
The Most Dangerous Thing – Laura Lippman
Triptych – J.M. Frey
Where She Went – Gayle Forman
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
Divergent – Veronica Roth
Wonderstruck – Brian Selznick
The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater
Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor

2011 Non-Fiction

Caravaggio – Andrew Graham-Dixon
Catherine The Great – Robert K. Massie
Clarence Darrow – John A. Farrell
Destiny of the Republic – Candice Millard
In The Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
The Information – James Gleick

2010 Fiction

The Convalescent – Jessica Anthony
The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
The Anthologist – Nicholson Baker
Little Bee – Chris Cleave
Spooner – Pete Dexter
Tinkers – Paul Harding
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
Angelology – Danielle Trussoni
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
Great House – Nicole Krauss
Room – Emma Donoghue
Shadow Tag – Louise Erdrich
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
The Three Weissmanns of Westport – Cathleen Schine
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
Unbroken – Laura Hilenbrand
Just Kids – Patti Smith
Bury Your Dead – Louise Penny
Feed – Mira Grant

2010 Non-Fiction

Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
The Lost City of Z – David Grann
The Age of Wonder – Richard Holmes
Cleopatra – Stacy Schiff
The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddartha MukHerjee
Empire of the Summer Moon – S.C. Gwynne
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Life – Keith Richards with James Fox
The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
Washington Life – Ron Chernow

2009 Fiction

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein – Peter Ackroyd
Follow Me – Joanna Scott
Half Broke Horses – Jeannette Walls
The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

2009 Non-Fiction

Cheever – A Life
Flannery – Brad Gooch
Fordlandia – Greg Grandin

2008 Fiction

American Wife – Curtis Sittenfeld
Atmospheric Disturbances – Rivka Galchen
The Good Thief – Hannah Tinti
Indignation – Philip Roth
Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri