![]() ![]() In Canada, you can explore a "Year's Worth of Great Reads" in the Vancouver Sun and the " Globe 100" in the Toronto Globe & Mail. "Writers and guests" share their favorite fiction (including crime novels and translated works) and nonfiction titles with readers of the Financial Times. You could easily put together a new must-read list for 2011 and never move on to 2012. Here are a few of my favorite 2011 book lists thus far: In the U.K., the Guardian compiles a "Books of the Year" feature by asking for recommendations from authors, including Chimamanda Adichie, Tariq Ali, John Banville, Margaret Drabble, Hilary Mantel and Lorrie Moore. We're readers, after all we have a vested interest in all this. These lists are conversation and argument starters. We can jot down titles we may have missed, and map unexplored reading territory. But best-of lists are everywhere, and a biblio-treasure hunt is well worth the time. For readers, list checking has become an annual ceremony, especially when national newspapers like the New York Times ( Top 10 Books as well as 100 Notable Books) or the Washington Post offer their best book picks. ![]() Making a list and checking it twice isn't just a Santa thing. ![]()
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