2011 Nonfiction All Stars
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Annotated lists of books receiving at least one starred review from one of four major review sources: Booklist, Kirkus, LJ and PW. The review source assigns the star.
| author | title | publisher | stars | isbn | price | bisac |
| Ba, Gabriel | Daytripper | Dc Comics | Booklist, LJ, PW | 9781401229696 | 19.99 | Graphic Works |
| Baker, Deborah | The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism | Farrar Straus & Giroux | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9781555975821 | 23 | Bio/Memoir |
| Bartlett, Rosamund | Tolstoy: A Russian Life | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Booklist, Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780151014385 | 35 | Bio/Memoir |
| Bartok, Mira | The Memory Palace | Simon & Schuster | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9781439183311 | 25 | Bio/Memoir |
| Carroll, James | Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Booklist, Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780547195612 | 28 | History |
| Crowell, Rodney | Chinaberry Sidewalks | Random House | Boolist, LJ, PW | 9780307594204 | 24.95 | Bio/Memoir |
| Didion, Joan | Blue Nights | Random House | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780307267672 | 25 | Bio/Memoir |
| Dubus, Andre, III | Townie: A Memoir | W W Norton | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780393064667 | 25.95 | Bio/Memoir |
| Fragoso, Margaux | Tiger, Tiger | Farrar Straus & Giroux | Booklsit, Kirkus, PW | 9780374277628 | 26 | Bio/Memoir |
| Fuller, Alexandra | Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness | Penguin | Booklist, LJ, PW | 9781594202995 | 25.95 | Bio/Memoir |
| Gladstone, Brooke | The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media | W W Norton | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780393077797 | 23.95 | Social Science |
| Goldfield, David | America Aflame: How the Civil War Transformed America | St Martins | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9781596917026 | 35 | History |
| Greenblatt, Stephen | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | W W Norton | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780393064476 | 26.95 | History |
| Hendrickson, Paul | Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 | Random House | Booklist, Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9781400041626 | 30 | Bio/Memoir |
| Hohn, Donovan | Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went i | Penguin | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780670022199 | 27.95 | Science |
| Hughes, Robert | Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History | Random | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780307268440 | 35 | History |
| Kahneman, Daniel | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Farrar Straus & Giroux | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780374275631 | 30 | Pyschology |
| Kellow, Brian | Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark | Penguin | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780670023127 | 27.95 | Bio/Memoir |
| Kershaw, Ian | The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-45 | USA | Booklist, LJ, PW | 9781594203145 | 35 | History |
| King, David | Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris | Random House | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780307452894 | 26 | True Crime |
| Knust, Jennifer Wright | Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire | HarperCollins | Booklist, LJ, PW | 9780061725586 | 25.99 | Religion |
| Larson, Erik | In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin | Random House | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780307408846 | 26 | History |
| McCullough, David | The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris | Simon & Schuster | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9781416571766 | 37.5 | History |
| Montefiore, Simon Sebag | Jerusalem: The Biography | Random House | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780307266514 | 35 | History |
| Orlean, Susan | Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend | Simon & Schuster | Booklist, Kirkus, LJ | 9781439190135 | 26.99 | Pets |
| O'Rourke, Meghan | The Long Goodbye | Penguin | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9781594487989 | 25.95 | Bio/Memoir |
| Roberts, Andrew | The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War | HarperCollins | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780061228599 | 29.99 | History |
| Seal, Mark | The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter | Penguin | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9780670022748 | 26.95 | Bio/Memoir |
| Slawenski, Kenneth | J. D. Salinger: A Life | Random House | Booklist, Kirkus, PW | 9781400069514 | 27 | Bio/Memoir |
| Wilkinson, Toby | The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt | Random House | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780553805536 | 35 | History |
| Zuckoff, Mitchell | Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II | HarperCollins | Kirkus, LJ, PW | 9780061988349 | 26.99 | History |
Starred Review Lists
Books that received at least one starred review from Booklist, Kirkus, LJ, and PW.
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