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Books of 2011 January 1. Theodora Goss, In the Forest of Forgetting – 4 stars 2. A. P. Fuchs, Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes: Zany Zombie Poetry for the Undead Head – 2 stars 3. Sigrid Nunez, Salvation City – 3 stars 4. Cherie Priest, Boneshaker – 3 stars 5. Caleb Carr, The Alienist – 3 stars 6. Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now – 4 stars 7. Joan Nestle (ed.), Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction – 3 stars 8. Helen N. Parker, Biological Themes in Modern Science Fiction – 2 stars 9. Natalie M. Rosinsky, Feminist Futures: Contemporary Women’s Speculative Fiction – 2 stars 10. Suzy McKee Charnas, Motherlines – 1 star 11. Amy Gerstler, Dearest Creature – 4 stars 12. Pamela August Russell, B Is for Bad Poetry – 3 stars 13. Allen Barnett, The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories – 4 stars 14. Harriet McBryde Johnson, Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life – 5 stars 15. Kenny Fries (ed.), Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out – 4 stars 16. ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – 3 stars 17. Amy Gerstler, Ghost Girl – 4 stars 18. Tess Williams (ed.), Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism – 4 stars 19. Jewelle L. Gomez, The Gilda Stories: A Novel – 4 stars 20. Paul Monette, The Politics of Silence – 5 stars 21. Mary E. Bradley, Mizora: A World of Women – 2 stars 22. Siobhan Fallon, You Know When the Men Are Gone – 5 stars 23. Paul Harding, Tinkers – 3 stars 24. George Whitmore, Nebraska – 3 stars 25. Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir – 5 stars February 1. Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber – 4 stars 2. Susan Hill, The Shadows in the Street – 4 stars 3. John Green, Zombicorns – 4 stars 4. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief – 5 stars 5. Matt Haig, The Radleys – 3 stars 6. Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic Universe – 3 stars 7. Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – 4 stars 8. Laurie R. King, A Monstrous Regiment of Women – 4 stars 9. Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary – 3 stars 10. Ryan North (ed.), Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die – 4 stars 11. Elmer Kelton, Hanging Judge – 3 stars 12. Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark – 2 stars 13. Jack Schaefer, Shane – 4 stars 14. Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain – 5 stars 15. Jeffery Deaver (ed.), The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 – 3 stars 16. Scott B. Smith, The Ruins – 4 stars March 1. Margo Lanagan, Black Juice – 4 stars 2. Elizabeth Engstrom, When Darkness Loves Us – 4 stars 3. Peter Y. Paik, From Utopia to Apocalypse – 3 stars 4. Jean Barr, Common Science?: Women, Science, and Knowledge – 4 stars 5. Claudia Henrion, Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference – 3 stars 6. Theodore Roszak, The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science – 1 star 7. Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels – 4 stars April 1. David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary – 5 stars 2. Bernard Beckett, Genesis – 3 stars 3. Margo Lanagan, Red Spikes – 3 stars 4. Kenneth W. Warren, What Was African American Literature? – 2 stars 5. Julia Holmes, Meeks – 2 stars 6. Focus: Letters: Your World, Your Images – 4 stars 7. William Germano, From Dissertation to Book – 3 stars 8. Kevin Brockmeier, The Illumination – 3 stars 9. Eleanor Harman, The Thesis and the Book: A Guide for First-Time Academic Authors – 2 stars 10. Beth Luey (ed.), Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors – 2 stars May 1. Will McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse – 4 stars 2. Alan Bradley, A Red Herring Without Mustard – 3 stars 3. Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress – 4 stars 4. Eliot Pattison, Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America – 2 stars 5. Wendy McClure, The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie – 5 stars 6. Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places – 4 stars 7. Jonathan Evison, West of Here – 2 stars 8. Graham Joyce, The Silent Land – 3 stars 9. Robin McKinley, Spindle’s End – 4 stars 10. Janet Evanovich, One for the Money – 3 stars 11. Marsha Canham, Through a Dark Mist – 3 stars 12. Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever – 3 stars 13. Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever – 4 stars 14. Karen Marie Moning, Faefever – 3 stars 15. Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever – 4 stars 16. Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever – 4 stars 17. Mira Grant, Deadline – 4 stars June 1. Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies – 4 stars 2. Libba Bray, Beauty Queens – 5 stars 3. Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey – 4 stars 4. Swati Avasthi, Split – 5 stars 5. Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day for Sorry – 3 stars 6. Jim Butcher, Storm Front – 2 stars 7. Alison Sinclair, Darkborn – 4 stars 8. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes: Or, the Loving Huntsman – 4 stars 9. Stephen King, The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I – 2 stars 10. Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three: The Dark Tower II – 3 stars 11. Mat Johnson, Pym – 4 stars 12. Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter – 3 stars 13. Sue Grafton, “A” Is for Alibi – 4 stars 14. Kelli Stanley, City of Dragons – 3 stars 15. Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels – 4 stars 16. Julia Quinn, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever – 3 stars 17. Jude Deveraux, The Taming – 2 stars 18. Jennifer Ashley, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie – 3 stars 19. Sue Grafton, “B” Is for Burglar – 3 stars 20. Meg Rosoff, The Bride’s Farewell – 4 stars 21. Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter – 4 stars 22. Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough – 3 stars 23. Joe Hill, Horns – 3 stars 24. Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin – 3 stars 25. Alex Kava, A Perfect Evil – 3 stars 26. Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journal Through the Madness Industry – 4 stars 27. Connie Brockway, McClairen’s Isle: The Passionate One – 3 stars 28. Adam Mansbach, Go the Fuck to Sleep – 5 stars 29. Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse – 3 stars 30. Lev Grossman, The Magicians – 5 stars July 1. Megan McCafferty, Bumped – 4 stars 2. Anna North, American Pacifica – 4 stars 3. Philip Palmer, Red Claw – 4 stars 4. Georges Simenon, Maigret Meets a Milord – 4 stars 5. Ron Currie, Jr., Everything Matters! – 5 stars 6. David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary – 3 stars 7. Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had – 2 stars 8. Ken MacLeod, The Execution Channel – 3 stars 9. Anne Kreamer, Going Gray: What I Learned About Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters – 4 stars 10. Katy Stauber, Revolution World – 3 stars 11. Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer – 4 stars 12. Daniel Abraham, A Betrayal in Winter – 4 stars 13. Daniel Abraham, An Autumn War – 5 stars 14. Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea (eds.), Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It – 4 stars 15. Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog – 4 stars 16. Tana French, Faithful Place – 5 stars 17. Julia Spencer-Fleming, A Fountain Filled with Blood – 4 stars 18. Daniel Abraham, The Price of Spring – 5 stars 19. Philip Palmer, Debatable Space – 2 stars 20. Lauren Beukes, Moxyland – 4 stars 21. Albert Sánchez Piñol, Cold Skin – 3 stars 22. Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer – 3 stars 23. Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People – 2 stars 24. Project Itoh, Harmony – 4 stars 25. Lauren Beukes, Zoo City – 3 stars 26. Hiroshi Yamamoto, The Stories of Ibis – 4 stars 27. Tomson Highway, Kiss of the Fur Queen – 3 stars 28. Rachel Swirsky, The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window – 4 stars 29. Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects – 4 stars 30. Elizabeth Hand, The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon – 3 stars 31. Alastair Reynolds, Troika – 3 stars 32. N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – 4 stars August 1. James S. A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes – 3 stars 2. Julia Spencer-Fleming, Out of the Deep I Cry – 5 stars 3. Julia Spencer-Fleming, To Darkness and to Death – 4 stars 4. Julia Spencer-Fleming, All Mortal Flesh – 4 stars 5. Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want – 4 stars 6. Gerald Graff (ed.), They Say / I Say – 4 stars 7. John Darnielle, Master of Reality – 4 stars 8. Tony Hillerman (ed.), The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century – 3 stars 9. Etgar Keret, The Girl on the Fridge – 3 stars 10. Marty Roth, Foul & Fair Play: Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction – 3 stars 11. Blake Liebel, Daniel Quantz, R. J. Ryan, and David Marquez, Syndrome – 3 stars 12. Harlan Ellison and Alan Robinson, Phoenix without Ashes – 3 stars 13. P. D. James, Talking About Detective Fiction – 4 stars 14. Julia Spencer-Fleming, One Was a Soldier – 5 stars 15. Jayne Ann Krentz (ed.), Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance – 3 stars 16. John Green, An Abundance of Katherines – 5 stars 17. Jane Yolen, Briar Rose – 4 stars 18. Tom Gauld, The Gigantic Robot – 5 stars 19. Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout – 3 stars 20. Tina Fey, Bossypants – 4 stars 21. Lavie Tidhar (ed.), The Apex Book of World SF – 3 stars 22. Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel – 3 stars 23. J. L. Langley, My Fair Captain – 2 stars 24. Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut – 4 stars 25. Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible – 4 stars 26. Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese – 4 stars 27. Minister Faust, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad – 4 stars 28.