Top books of 2011 from various sources.
Amazon Top Books of 2011
22 Britannia Road - Amanda Hodgkinson
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt - Daniel Rasmussen
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef - Gabrielle Hamilton
Blue Nights - Joan Didion
Bossypants - Tina Fey
Cain - Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness - Alexandra Fuller
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President - Ron Suskind
Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
Delirium - Lauren Oliver
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness - Frank Brady
Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout - Philip Connors
Galore - Michael Crummey
Go the Fuck to Sleep - Adam Mansbach
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India - Joseph Lelyveld
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Steve Earle
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives - Steven Levy
Jacqueline Kennedy - Caroline Kennedy, Michael R. Beschloss
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi
My Korean Deli: Risking It All for a Convenience Store - Ben Ryder Howe
Nightwoods - Charles Frazier
Onward - Howard Schultz, Joanne Lesley Gordon
River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman
The Empty Family: Stories - Colm Toibin
The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson
The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta
The Paris Wife: A Novel - Paula McLain
The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Snowman - Jo Nesbou, Don Bartlett
The Submission - Amy Waldman
The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan - Kim Barker
The Tragedy of Arthur: A Novel - Arthur Phillips
The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
Then Again - Diane Keaton
Townie: A Memoir - Andre Dubus, Iii
We the Animals - Justin Torres
West of Here - Jonathan Evison
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction - Kurt Vonnegut

Amazon Top Literature & Fiction of 2011
Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel - Russell Banks
Please Look After Mom - Kyung-Sook Shin
The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje
The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick Dewitt

Amazon Top Mystery & Thrillers of 2011
11/22/63 - Stephen King
A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny
Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel - S. J. Watson
Feast Day of Fools - James Lee Burke
Reamde - Neal Stephenson
Sister - Rosamund Lupton
The Affair: A Reacher Novel - Lee Child
The Most Dangerous Thing - Laura Lippman
The Night Strangers - Chris Bohjalian
Turn of Mind - Alice LaPlante

Amazon Top Nonfiction Books of 2011
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks - Ken Jennings
Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer
Those Guys Have All the Fun - James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales
What It Is Like to Go to War - Karl Marlantes

Amazon Top History Books of 2011
1861: The Civil War Awakening - Adam Goodheart
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - Robert K. Massie
Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - Erik Larson
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II - Mitchell Zuckoff
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean - David Abulafia
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris - David Mccullough

Amazon Top Science Books of 2011
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 - Michio Kaku
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - Steven Pinker
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick Staff
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength - Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

Amazon Top Romance Books of 2011
Archangel's Blade - Nalini Singh
Breaking Point - Pamela Clare
Dragon Bound - Thea Harrison
Heart of Steel - Meljean Brook
Seduction of a Highland Lass - Maya Banks
Silk Is For Seduction - Loretta Chase
The Next Always - Nora Roberts
Unveiled - Courtney Milan

Amazon Top Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2011
A Dance With Dragons - George R. R. Martin
Among Others - Jo Walton
Embassytown - China Mieville
Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Magician King: A Novel - Lev Grossman
The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Vortex - Robert Charles Wilson

Amazon Top Young Adult of 2011
A World Without Heroes - Brandon Mull
Breadcrumbs - Anne Ursu, Erin Mcguire
Okay for Now - Gary D. Schmidt
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales - Chris Van Allsburg, Lemony Snicket
The Emerald Atlas - John Stephens
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - Catherynne M. Valente, Ana Juan
The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan

NY Times Top 10 of 2011
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman
Arguably: Selected Essays - Christopher Hitchens
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son - Ian Brown
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - Manning Marable
Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
Ten Thousand Saints - Eleanor Henderson
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
The Art of Fielding: A Novel - Chad Harbach
The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Washington Post Top 10 of 2011
Doc - Mary Doria Russell
Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 - Paul Hendrickson
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson