Here is the complete (or almost complete, once 2011 is officially over) list of books I’ve read in 2011. I’ve not included literary magazines since that’s mostly PANK and The Paris Review anyway. I haven’t linked to any of the reviews I’ve written, but I will be using this as a guide to post my favorite books of 2011 and my favorite books read in 2011.

The below list is written in the order I’ve read them. I’ve also included a key to decode the random bold lines and the italicized lines.

KEY

books I loved

books I liked

books I hated

* poetry

** TRBC

1. a beautiful name for a girl by Kirsten Kaschock * **
2. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
3. Sukkwan Island: A Novella by David Vann
4. Pacazo by Roy Kesey **
5. The End of the West by Michael Dickman *
6. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
7. The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott
8. You Think That’s Bad by Jim Shepard **
9. The Bigger World by Noelle Kocot
10. The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel by Justin Taylor
11. All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go by Bucky Sinister *
12. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
13. Donald by Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott
14. To A Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
15. Things Come On: An Amneoir by Joseph Harrington *
16. The Chronology of Water by Lydia Yuknavitch **
17. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
18. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
19. Smiles of the Unstoppable by Jason Bredle *
20. Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr
21. My Dead Dad is in ZZ Top: 100% Real, *Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock and Roll by Jon Glaser
22. Welcome to the Greenhouse by Gordon Van Gelder
23. Fall Higher by Dean Young *
24. Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
25. The White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
26. The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker
27. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
28. Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco **
29. Bossypants by Tina Fey
30. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones **
31. Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III
32. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
33. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
34. Suicide by Edouard Leve
35. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
36. The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell
37. Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith *
38. Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell **
39. The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God: A Novel by Michael Ventura
40. Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin
41. A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
42. Bartelby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
43. Us by Michael Kimball
44. Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
46. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
47. How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher **
48. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 
49. Negro League Baseball by Harmony Holiday
50. End Zone by Don DeLillo
51. Go The Fuck To Sleep by Adam Mansbach
52. number9dream by David Mitchell
53. Luminarium by Alex Shakar **
54. Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer
55. Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
56. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 
57. Spurious by Lars Iyer
58. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
59. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
60. We the Animals: a Novel by Justin Torres
61. White Noise by Don DeLillo
62. Show Up, Look Good by Mark Wisniewski
63. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
64. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
65. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
66. Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks **
67. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
68. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
69. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
70. Motorman by David Ohle
71. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1) by Bryan Lee O’Malley
72. Three Novels: Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
73. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
74. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
75. Jesus’ Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
76. Hough and Helix and Where and Here and You, You, You by Lea Graham *
77. Howl and other Poems by Allen Ginsberg *
78. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
79. Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner **
80. Just Kids by Patti Smith
81. Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine **