2011 in literature
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The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.
Books
Literature
- T.C. Boyle - When the Killing's Done
- Geraldine Brooks - Caleb's Crossing (novel)
- Bonnie Jo Campbell - Once Upon a River
- Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers
- E. L. Doctorow - All the Time in the World
- Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
- Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot
- Jonathan Evison - West of Here
- Robb Forman Dew - Being Polite to Hitler
- Charles Frazier - Nightwoods
- James Frey - The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
- Benjamin Hale - The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
- Ron Hansen - A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
- Chad Harbach - The Art of Fielding
- Mat Johnson - Pym
- Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
- Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
- Michael Ondaatje - The Cat's Table
- Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
- Chuck Palahniuk - Damned
- Tom Perrota - The Leftovers
- Arthur Phillips - The Tragedy of Arthur
- Karen Russell - Swamplandia!
- John Sayles - A Moment in the Sun
- Colm Tóibín - The Empty Family
- David Foster Wallace - The Pale King
- Daniel Woodrell - The Outlaw Album
Non-fiction
- Peter Bergen - The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
- Mark Bowden - Worm: The First Digital World War
- Frank Brady - Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
- David Brooks - The Social Animal
- Brian Christian - The Most Human Human
- Douglas Edwards - I'm Feeling Lucky
- T.J. English - The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge
- Tina Fey - Bossypants
- Joshua Foer - Moonwalking with Einstein
- James Gleick - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Brian Greene - The Hidden Reality
- Geoffrey Gray - Skyjack
- Louis Hyman - Debtor Nation
- Steve Inskeep - Instant City
- David King - Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
- Erik Larson - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- Joseph Lelyveld - Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
- Steven Levy - In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
- Charles C. Mann - 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- David McCullough - The Greater Journey
- Ben Mezrich - Sex on the Moon
- Scott Miller - The President and the Assassin
- Errol Morris - Believing is Seeing
- Grant Morrison - Supergods
- Joyce Carol Oates - A Widow's Story
- Patton Oswalt - Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland
- Dana Priest - Top Secret America
- Annie Proulx - Bird Cloud: A Memoir
- Janet Reitman - Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
- Tom Scocca - Beijing Welcomes You
- Tom Shales & J.A. Miller - Those Guys Have All the Fun
- Sarah Vowell - Unfamiliar Fishes
- Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie - The Declaration of Independents
- Daniel Yergin - The Quest
- Mitchell Zuckoff - Lost in Shangri-La
Poetry
See 2011 in poetry.
- Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (February)
- Susan Howe, That This (February)
- Alice Notley, Culture of One (March)
- Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead (April)
- Michael Palmer, Thread (May)
- Sarah Palin (edited by Michael Solomon), I Hope Like Heck (June 21)
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes
- Daniel Abraham - The Dragon's Path
- Daniel Abraham (writing as James S.A. Corey) - Leviathan Wakes (with Ty Franck)
- Ann Aguirre - Aftermath
- Greg Bear - Halo: Cryptum
- Lauren Beukes - Zoo City
- Alex Bledsoe - Dark Jenny
- Alex Bledsoe - The Hum and the Shiver
- M. M. Buckner - The Gravity Pilot
- Robert Buettner - Undercurrents
- Jack Campbell - The Lost Frontier: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought
- Orson Scott Card - The Lost Gate
- Blake Charlton - Spellbound
- Ian Douglas - Center of Gravity
- David Anthony Durham - The Sacred Band
- Greg Egan - The Clockwork Rocket
- Kate Elliott - Cold Fire
- C.S. Friedman - Legacy of Kings
- Steven Gould - The 7th Sigma
- Michael Grant — Plague
- Mira Grant - Deadline
- Lev Grossman - The Magician King
- Stephen Hunt - The Rise of the Iron Moon
- Cameron Hurley - God's War
- N. K. Jemisin - The Kingdom of Gods
- Richard Kadrey - Aloha from Hell
- Stephen King — 11/22/63
- Mark Lawrence - Prince of Thorns
- Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Ghost Ship
- Pittacus Lore — The Power of Six
- Richard Matheson - Other Kingdoms
- George R. R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons
- T.C. McCarthy - Germline
- Jack McDevitt - Firebird
- China Mieville - Embassytown
- Karen Miller - A Blight of Mages
- Richard K. Morgan - The Cold Commands
- Joseph Nassise - Eyes to See
- Cherie Priest - Ganymede
- Hannu Rajaniemi - The Quantum Thief
- Robert V.S. Redick - The River of Shadows
- Brian Ruckley - The Edinburgh Dead
- Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law
- John Scalzi - Fuzzy Nation
- Dan Simmons - Flashback
- Neal Stephenson - Reamde
- Charles Stross - Rule 34
- Michael Swanwick - Dancing with Bears
- Catherynne M. Valente - Deathless
- Vernor Vinge - The Children of the Sky
- Jo Walton - Among Others
- David Weber - How Firm a Foundation
- Robert Charles Wilson - Vortex
- Daniel Wilson - Robopocalypse
- Gene Wolfe - Home Fires
Young Adult
- Cynthia Hand — Unearthly (January 4)
- Courtney Allison Moulton — Angelfire (February 15)
- Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Rick Riordan, and Jude Watson - Vespers Rising (April 5)[1]
- Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed (April 5) (Spain release)
- Kelley Armstrong — The Gathering (April 12)
- K. A. Applegate - Re-release of Animorphs books
- The Invasion (May 1)
- The Visitor (May 1)
- Rick Riordan - The Throne of Fire (May 3)[2]
- Rick Riordan – The Son of Neptune (October 4th)[3]
Crime and Thriller
- Jeff Abbott - Adrenaline
- Ace Atkins - The Ranger
- Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog
- Steve Berry - The Jefferson Key
- James Lee Burke - Feast Day of Fools
- Lee Child - The Affair
- Edward Conlon - Red on Red
- Michael Connelly - The Fifth Witness
- John Connolly - The Burning Soul
- Jeffrey Deaver - Carte Blanche
- Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee - Forbidden
- Ted Dekker - The Priest's Graveyard
- John Grisham - The Litigators
- Morag Joss - Among the Missing
- Stuart M. Kaminsky - A Whisper to the Living
- Henning Mankell - The Troubled Man
- Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
- T. Jefferson Parker - The Border Lords
- George Pelecanos - The Cut
- Ralph Peters - The Officers' Club
- James Rollins - The Devil's Colony
- John Sandford - Buried Prey
- Marcus Sakey - The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
- Bernard J. Schaffer - Whitechapel
- Duane Swierczynski - Fun and Games
- Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan - The Night Eternal
- Nicolaas Vergunst - Knot of Stone
- S.J. Watson - Before I Go to Sleep
Forthcoming
Literature
- Steven Millhauser - We Others: New and Selected Stories (August 23)
- A. S. Byatt - Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (September 6)
- Craig Thompson - Habibi (September 20)
- Scott Snyder - The Goodbye Suit[4]
Non-fiction
- Stephen Sondheim - Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) (October 25)
- Joan Didion - Blue Nights (November 1)
- Jonathan Lethem - The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. (November 8)
Children's
- Brian Selznick - Wonderstruck (September 13)
Young Adult
- Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed - English release - (May 31)
- K. A. Applegate - Re-release of Animorphs books
- The Encounter (July)
- The Message (October)
- Christopher Paolini — Inheritance (November 8)
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Michael Crichton & Richard Preston — Micro (November 22)
- Joe Haldeman - Earthbound
- John C. Wright - Count to a Trillion
Crime and Thriller
Poetry
Deaths
- 2 January
- Hanna Kraan, 64, Dutch children's author
- Robert Trumble, 91, Australian writer
- 4 January
- Eva Strittmatter, 80, German author and poet
- Dick King-Smith 88, British children's writer whose book The Sheep-Pig was adapted as a film Babe
- 10 January - Joe Gores, 79, American novelist and screenwriter
- 11 January - Marcel Trudel, 93, Canadian historian and author
- 14 January - Sun Axelsson, 75, Swedish novelist
- 15 January - Romulus Linney, 80, American playwright
- 16 January
- R. F. Langley, 72, British poet and diarist
- Günther Feustel, 86, German author
- 17 January - Jean Dutourd, 91, French novelist
- 19 January - Wilfrid Sheed, 80, English-born American novelist and essayist
- 20 January
- F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet
- Reynolds Price, 77, American author, whose novel Kate Vaiden won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986[5]
- 22 January - Park Wan-suh, 79, South Korean novelist
- 23 January - Novica Tadić, 62, Yugoslavian poet
- 24 January - Anna Yablonskaya, 29, Ukrainian playwright
- 25 January - Vincent Cronin, 86, British writer
- 29 January
- Loreen Rice Lucas, 96, Canadian author
- Hemayel Martina, 20, Curaçaon poet
- 30 January - Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, Japanese American author
- 2 February - Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian author
- 3 February - Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and critic
- 5 February
- Charles E. Silberman, 86, American author
- Martin Quigley, Jr.. 93, American publisher, author, spy
- Brian Jacques, 71, British children's writer
- 9 February - David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author, diplomat
- 13 February - Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright
- 15 February - Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand author
- 16 February
- Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright
- Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German science fiction author
- 17 February
- Perry Moore, 39, American author
- Vivien Noakes, 74, British biographer and critic
- James McLure, 59, American playwright
- 19 February - Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter, author
- 22 February - Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author
- 25 February
- Manny Fried, 97, American playwright, actor
- Aminath Faiza, 82, Maldivian Dhivehi language poet and author.
- 26 February - Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech author
- 28 February - Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author
- 2 March - Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author
- 3 March - May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher
- 4 March - Vivienne Harris, 89, British newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph
- 5 March - Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries)
- 8 March
- Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian
- Steven Kroll, 69, American children's author
- 9 March - Doris Burn, 87, American children's author and illustrator
- 13 March - Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic
- 14 March - Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher
- 19 March - Raymond Garlick, 84, British poet and editor
- 27 March - H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime novelist
References
- ^ "The 39 Clues Book 11: Vespers Rising - Coming April 5, 2011". 39 Clues Official Website. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ "Exclusive first chapter: 'The Kane Chronicles, Book Two: The Throne of Fire'". USA Today. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "The Son of Neptune". Rick Riordan Official Site. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30187
- ^ http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/01/20/933570/author-duke-professor-reynolds.html