Top Books of 2011

As a new year approaches, it's always fun to look back at the books, movies and events that stood out in the past year.

Patch asked the to share which books stood out to them in 2011. Here's what the librarians picked as their top choices:

Fiction

Mike Postula, adult services librarian, picked these six titles as the top fiction books of 2011:

• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

• The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach

• The Tiger's Wife: A Novel by Téa Obreht

• Rules of Civility: A Novel by Amor Towles

• The Submission by Amy Waldman

• Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel by S. J. Watson

Non-fiction

Betty Lang, adult services librarian and collection specialist, suggested these five non-fiction book titles:

• Boomerang by Michael Lewis

• Greater Journey by David McCullough

• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

• Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

• The Next Convergence by Michael Spence

Biography

David Silberman, adult services librarian, said these were the top biographies of 2011:

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• West by West by Jerry West

• Bossypants by Tina Fey

• Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua