Best Books 2011: My Version

Only one of these titles was released in 2011, but these are the best titles I read in 2011 (in chronological order of my reading):

• True Grit by Charles Portis (Fiction)
• The History of the Medieval World by Susan Wise Bauer (History)
• The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson (Essays)
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Young Adult Classic)
• Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol (Classic)

And the best lectures I heard was Classics of British Literature by John Sutherland (of the Teaching Company).

I'd probably rank Taras Bulba and True Grit as my best reads in 2011.