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2011 Books

Atlantic: Benjamin Schwarz: Books of the Year 2011

06 December 2011

The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal

The Atlantic’s literary editor, Benjamin Schwarz, chooses the best five books of 2011:

[see also 2012]

  1. The Hare with Amber Eyes
    A Family’s Century of Art and Loss
    Edmund de Waal
  2. Letters to Monica
    Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite
  3. The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan
    Richard Nickel and Aaron Suskind, with John Vinci and Ward Miller
  4. Saints and Sinners
    Stories
    Edna O’Brien
  5. Emily, Alone
    Stewart O’Nan

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