These are the 27 books I read in 2011. (Previous lists can be found here: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
The books are listed in the order I read them, oldest first, except for the 5 fiction books which I listed separately at the bottom. My favorite books were #’s 1, 6, 9, 16, 19, 22, and 25.
Nonfiction:
1. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach
2. Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Neal Pollack
3. unSweetined: A Memoir, Jodie Sweetin
4. Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee, Hoda Kotb
5. Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language, Deborah Fallows
6. Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy, Lindsay Moran
7. Psychic: My Life in Two Worlds, Sylvia Browne
8. How Did You Get This Number, Sloane Crosley
9. The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love, Kristin Kimball
10. Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away, Jennette Fulda
11. I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway, Tracy McMillan
12. Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein
13. Grindhopping: Building a Rewarding Career Without Paying Your Dues, Laura Vanderkam
14. Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert
15. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, Wendy McClure
16. Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, Gabrielle Hamilton
17. SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper, Howard E. Wasdin
18. My Year with Eleanor, Noelle Hancock
19. Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, Miranda Kennedy
20. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, Dorothy Wickenden
21. Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family’s Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom, Yangzom Brauen
22. An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life, Mary Johnson
Fiction
23. Dancing for Degas, Kathryn Wagner
24. I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
25. Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin
26. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, Jeannette Walls
27. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
