2011 in review: Books

Asterisk indicates a reread; bold indicates books I particularly enjoyed. 

Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and Biggest Flop of the Season, 1959-2009 (Filichia)
*Bright Lights, Big Ass (Lancaster)
Wolf Hall (Mantel) (Did Not Finish--p. 277)
*The Lives of Christopher Chant (Wynne Jones)
*Charmed Life (Wynne Jones)
*Witch Week (Wynne Jones)
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin (Sides)
The Stranger Beside Me (Rule)
*Bridget Jones's Diary (Fielding)
*Dogsbody (Wynne Jones)
Fool (Moore) (Audio)
Model Home (Puchner)
Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the Attention-Impaired [abridged] (Martin & Tichenor)
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl (Sturrock)
*The BFG (Dahl)
James and the Giant Peach (Dahl)
*The Twits (Dahl)
*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl)
*Matilda (Dahl)
Hotel du Lac (Brookner)
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Batuman)
*The Eyre Affair (Fforde)
*Lost in a Good Book (Fforde)
*The Well of Lost Plots (Fforde)
*Something Rotten (Fforde)
23 Minutes in Hell (Wiese)
Women, Food, and God (Roth) (DNF--p. 111)
The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Larson)
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Kidder)
Henry and Clara (Mallon)
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, & Baseball's Longest Game (Barry)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)
Intuition (Goodman)
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels (Fforde)
There's Cake In My Future (Gruenenfelder)
A Rather Lovely Inheritance (Belmond)
Stephen Fry in America: Fifty States and the Man Who Set Out to See Them All (Fry)
Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence (James)
My Fair Lazy (Lancaster)
Thirteen Reasons Why (Asher)
Five Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (The Oatmeal)
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals (Gill)
Suddenly You (Kleypas)
The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks: American's Longest-Running Play (Farber & Viagas)
Pygmalion (Shaw)
A Rather Curious Engagement (Belmond)
The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga (Perry & Pleshakov)
Airhead (Cabot)
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage (Rowley)
The Archivist (Cooley)
Being Nikki (Cabot)
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Roach)
Runaway (Cabot)
In the Shadow of No Towers (Spiegelman)
Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties (Brahm)
Spoiled (Cocks & Morgan)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery)
If You Were Here (Lancaster)
Rockville Pike (Coll)
The Inconvenient Duchess (Merrill)
In the President's Secret Service (Kessler) (Audio; DNF)
Dispatches From a Public Librarian (Douglas)
The Boy Detective Fails (Meno)
Super Sad True Love Story (Shteyngart)
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Bryson)
How Did You Get This Number? (Crosley)
Maphead: Charting the Whole Weird World of Geography Wonks (Jennings)
*The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Shaffer & Barrows)
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank (Oney)
Semi-Sweet: A Novel of Love and Cupcakes (Meaney)
The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches (Hample)
Bossypants (Fey)
A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns (Lipman)
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (Kaling)
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) (Sondheim)
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (Prose)