Check out NPR Book Critic Maureen Corrigan's favorite books of 2011:  10 great novels and 2 non-fiction titles she couldn't resist including.   The NPR page has a link to the podcast, if you'd like to listen to the story, as well.

Here are the titles:

• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
• Open City by Teju Cole
• The Submission by Amy Waldman
• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
• The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
• The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

and,

• To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt