| Fiction |
| Book Thief, The (Markus Zusak) |
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The (Mark Haddon) |
| Family Tree, The (Carole Cadwalladr) |
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Girl with a Pear Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
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| Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (The) |
| Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamandi Ngozi) |
| Kite Runner, The (Khaled Hosseini) |
| Madonnas of Leningrad, The (Kim Edwards) |
| March (Geraldine Brooks) |
| Memory Keeper's Daughter, The (Kim Edwards) |
| Old Filth (Jane Gardam) |
| Poisonwood Bible, The (Barbara Kingsolver) |
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Purple Hibiscus (Chimamandi Ngozi)
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| Saturday (Ian McEwan) |
| Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, A (Marina Lewycka) |
| Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky) |
| Thousand Splendid Suns, A (Khaled Hosseini) |
| Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen) |
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| New Zealand Fiction |
| Captive Wife |
| Mister Pip (Lloyd Jones) |
| Small Holes in the Silence [short stories] (Patricia Grace) |
| Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs (Linda Olsson) |
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Non Fiction
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| All the Fishes Come Home to Roost (Rachel Manija Brown) |
| Glass Castle, The (Jeanette Walls) |
| House by the Dvina (Eugenie Fraser) |
| Infidel: My Life (ali Ayaan Hirsi) |
| Mao's Last Dancer (Li Cunxin) |
| Nazi Officer's Wife, The (Edith Hahn Beer) |
| Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (Alan Alda) |
| Stasiland (Anna Funder) |
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| 2011 Titles that should appeal |
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Help (The)
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Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
Spilling the Beans (Clarissa Dickson Wright) -non-fiction
Thing Around Your Neck (Chamanda Ngozi Adichie) - short stories
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