Best Books 2011
Monday 23 January
Kate Blackhurst
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
The German Boy by Patricia Wastvedt
Snowdrops by AD Miller
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Tuesday 24 January
Gyles Beckford
Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon (Heinemann/Penguin)
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin (Penguin/Viking)
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Allen and Unwin)
Boomerang: The Meltdown, travels in the new third world, by Michael Lewis (Allen Lane)
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott by David Wilson (Little, Brown)
A Good Mail: Letters of John Mulgan, edited by Peter Whiteford (Victoria University Press)
Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle (Sceptre)
Wednesday 25 January
Louise O’Brien
Dark Jelly by Alice Tawhai (Huia)
Wulf by Hamish Clayton (Penguin)
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (Text Publishing)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (Fourth Estate)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker)
Thursday 26 January
Ralph McAllister
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (Chatto and Windus)
Gifted by Patrick Evans (Victoria University Press)
Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke (Simon and Schuster)
Friday 27 January
John McIntyre - Children's Best Books
Stomp by Ruth Paul (Scholatic ISBN 978-1-77543-005-8)
Look, A Book by Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood (Little Hare
ISBN 978-1921541-80-3)
The Scar by Charlotte Mondlac illustrated by Olivier Tallec (Walker Books
ISBN 978-1-4063-3593-8)