Cover image of Retromania - my favourite book of 2011.
This was the year when Tory minister Michael Gove pronounced that, from the age of 11 up, we should read at least 50 books a year. I only managed to read about 40 this year – does that make me a dumbass?
These are the best books I read this year, needless to say, not all were published in 2011 and I wrote blog posts about them all:
Best fiction :
A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
One Day by David Nicholls
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
The Hunger Games (parts one + two) by Suzanne Collins
Best non fiction :
Retromania by Simon Reynolds
Just Kids by Patti Smith
33 Revolutions Per Minute by Dorian Lynskey
Biggest letdowns :
The Hunger Games (part three) by Suzanne Collins
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Solar by Ian McEwan
