There will be many of these lists in the next few weeks.

Click on the following links to see the Amazon, Kirkus and Oprah lists:

Amazon's Best Fiction of 2011 - Top 40 countdown

Kirkus Best Fiction of 2011

Oprah's list of the Best Fiction 2011

Here's a sample:

The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

Summary: Struggling to understand why her beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
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Buzz Aldrin, what happened to you in all the confusion? by Johan Harstad ; translated by Deborah Dawkin

Summary: Mattias, a thirty-something gardener living in Stavanger, Norway, suffers a series of personal and professional disasters and then finds himself on a road in the desolate Faroe Islands with no memory of how he arrived there.

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11/22/63 : a novel by Stephen King

Summary: Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald..
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