The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2011, alphabetical by title [see also: Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories – Don DeLillo
• The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
• The Barbarian Nurseries – Héctor Tobar
• Big Questions. Or, Asomatognosia: Whose Hand Is It Anyway? – Anders Brekhus Nilsen
• The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka
• Canti – Giacomo Leopardi
• The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
• Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes – William Kennedy
• Come on All You Ghosts – Matthew Zapruder
• 11/22/63 – Steven King
• The Free World – David Bezmozgis
• Ghost Lights – Lydia Millet
• The Grief of Others – Leah Hager Cohen
• Gryphon: New and Selected Stories – Charles Baxter
• House of Holes: A Book of Raunch – Nicholson Baker
• The Last Werewolf – Glen Duncan
• The Leftovers – Tom Perrotta
• Life on Mars – Tracy K. Smith
• The London Train – Tessa Hadley
• Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories – Barry Hannah
• Lost Memory of Skin – Russell Banks
• The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
• A Moment in the Sun – John Sayles
• Mr. Fox – Helen Oyeyemi
• My New American Life – Francine Prose [pictured]
• 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
• Open City – Teju Cole
• The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel – David Foster Wallace
• Parallel Stories – Peter Nadas, translated by Imre Goldstein
• Say Her Name – Francisco Goldman
• Scenes from Village Life – Amos Oz, translated by Nocholas de Lange
• The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
• Seven Years – Peter Stamm
• Shards – Ismet Prcic
• Space, in Chains – Laura Kasischke
• Stone Arabia – Dana Spiotta
• The Stranger’s Child – Alan Hollinghurst
• The Submission – Amy Waldman
• Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
• Taller When Prone: Poems – Les Murray
• Ten Thousand Saints – Eleanor Henderson
• This Beautiful Life – Helen Schulman
• The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
• The Tragedy of Arthur – Arthur Phillips
• Train Dreams – Denis Johnson

Nonfiction

• And So It Goes. Kurt Vonnegut: A Life – Charles J. Shields
• Arguably: Essays – Christopher Hitchens
• The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning – Maggie Nelson
• Assassins of the Turquoise Palace – Roya Hakakian
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World – David Deutsch
• Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography – Errol Morris
• The Better Angles of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined – Steven Pinker
• Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of  a Reluctant Chef – Gabrielle Hamilton
• Blue Nights – Joan Didion
• The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son – Ian Brown
• Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane – Andrew Graham-Dixon
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman – Robert K. Massie
• Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned – John A. Farrell
• Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness – Alexandra Fuller
• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President – Candice Millard
• The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. – Jonathan Lethem
• 1861: The Civil War Awakening – Adam Goodheart
• Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche – James Miller
• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created – Charles C. Mann
• George F. Kennan: An American Life – John Lewis Gaddis
• Great Soul: Mahatma GAndhi and His Struggle with India – Joseph Lelyveld
• Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America – Sharifa Rhoes-Pitts
• Holy War: How Vasco de Gama’s Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations – Nigel Cliff
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Brain – Erik Larson
• Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 – Max Hastings
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood – James Gleick
• Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion – Janet Reitman
• Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything – David Bellos
• Jerusalem: The Biography – Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George – Denis Gigante
• Knocking on Heaven’s Door: how Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World – Lisa Randall
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention – Manning Marable
• The Memory Chalet – Tony Judt
• Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War – Tony Horwitz
• Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them – Donovan Hohn
• My Song: A Memoir – Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson
• The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom – Evgeny Morozov
• One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir – Binyavanga Wainaina
• The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
• Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark – Brian Kellow
• Pulphead – John Jeremiah Sullivan
• The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World – Daniel Yergin
• Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equity – Richard Thompson Ford
• Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend – Susan Orlean
• [sic]: A Memoir – Joshua Cody
• The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War – Andrew Roberts
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern – Stephen Greenblatt
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• To A Mountain in Tibet – Colin Thubron
• To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellionm 1914-1918 – Adam Hochschild
• A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France – Caroline Moorehead
• Van Gogh: The Life – Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
• Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to be Black Now – Touré
• Why the West Rules — For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future – Ian Morris
• A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War – Amanda Foreman