Hudson Booksellers, a brand unit of Hudson Group, has released its Best Books list for 2011.
The books were chosen through a nominated short list and voting process by a panel of Hudson booksellers and managers. They were picked based on literary style, innovation, entertainment value, readability, timeliness, and treatment of subjects and themes.
Jonathan Evison’s “West Of Here” was named Book of the Year. The company will offer a limited number of hardcover copies with autographed bookplates for $10 at Hudson Booksellers.
Free brochures of the books that made the list will be available from mid-November through the holiday book-buying season, featuring reviews, Top 10 lists and excerpts from selected books.
The books, listed alphabetically by author include:
Best Non-Fiction:
“Townie” by Andre Dubus III; “Bossypants,” Tina Fey; “Granta 116: Ten Years Later,” Granta, Ed. John Freeman; “Swerve,” Stephen Greenblatt; “The Heart and the Fist,” Eric Greitens: “Arguably,” Christopher Hitchens; “In the Garden of Beasts,” Erik Larson; “What It Is Like to Go to War,” Karl Marlantes; “Sex on the Moon,” Ben Mezrich; and “The Psychopath Test,” Jon Ronson
Best Fiction:
“Ready Player One,” Ernest Cline; “The Sisters Brothers,” Patrick DeWitt; “The Language of Flowers,” Vanessa Diffenbaugh; “West of Here,” Jonathan Evison; “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead,” Sara Gran; “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day,” Ben Loory; “The Tiger’s Wife,” Tea Obreht; “The Tragedy of Arthur,” Arthur Phillips; “The Fates Will Find Their Way,” Hannah Pittard; and “We the Animals,” Justin Torres
Best Young Readers:
“The Chronicles of Harris Burdick,” Chris Van Allsburg; “A Monster Calls,” Patrick Ness (inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd); “OK for Now,” Gary D. Schmidt; “Wonderstruck,” Brian Selznick; and “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” Ransom Riggs
Best Business Interest:
“Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain,” Ryan Blair with Don Yaeger; “Money and Power,” William D. Cohan; “Tell to Win,” Peter Guber; “Boomerang,” Michael Lewis; and “The Quest,” Daniel Yergin
Hudson Booksellers’ 2011 Book of the Year:
“West of Here,” Jonathan Evison
