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The Year in GOOD Books GOOD Books 2011

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In 2011, GOOD brought you the best books about vegetarianism, gay romances, brutal killers, and everything in between. We're not saying that you necessarily have to stop reading vampire love stories, but why not branch out a bit? Read on for a pri

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GOOD Books: Gifting the Grads

Personal Finance for Dummies
By Eric Tyson
458 Pages. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. $21.99

Bank

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GOOD Books for Summer: Not-Too-Trashy Beach Reads

D.V.
By Diana Vreeland
216 pages. Da Capo Press. $17.00

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GOOD Books: Road Trip Lit

Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
By Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein
220 Pages.

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Good Books: Get Whisked Away

Annals of the Former World
By John McPhee
712 Pages. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. $21.00

In this Pul

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GOOD Books: Gay Romances

The Price of Salt
by Claire Morgan (Patricia Highsmith)
304 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $13.95

Patricia Hi

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Good Books: Dog Days of Summer

You Had Me At Woof
By Julie Klam
240 pages. Penguin Group. $24.95

Are you some

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GOOD Books: A Sneak Peek at Fall's Best

1Q84 (October)
By Haruki Murakami
926 pages. Knopf Doubleday. $30.50

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GOOD Books: Recounting Riots

Among the Thugs
By Bill Buford
317 pages. Knopf Doubleday. $15.95

Between 1982 and 1990, Bill Buford, ed

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GOOD Books: Back to the Daily Grind

Then We Came to the End
By Joshua Ferris
416 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $11.68

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GOOD Books: Cynical Children's Books Written for Adults

Go the Fuck to Sleep
By Adam Mansbach
Illustrated

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GOOD Books: On Wall Street

Too Big to Fail
By Andrew Ross Sorkin
640 pages. Penguin. $12.24.

At the time Lehman Brothers' collap

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GOOD Books: Sensational Court Cases

In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote

343 pages. Random House. $23.00.

Capote spent six years

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GOOD Books: Get Healthy

The Man Who Ate Everything
528 pages. Vintage Books. $10.88.
By Jeffrey Steingarten

Upon changing careers from

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GOOD Books: Thrillers

The Walking Dead, Book 1
By Robert Kirkman
Illustrated by Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn
304 pages.

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GOOD Books: Read Up on Animal Rights

Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms

By Nicolette Hahn Niman


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GOOD Books: Sports Scandals

The Tonya Tapes
By Lynda Prouse
300 pages. World Audience, Inc. $18.99.

With all the negative attention

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GOOD Books: What to Read Instead of Twilight

Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan
192 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $8.99.<

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GOOD Books: Dysfunctional Families

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
By Dave Eggers
485 pages. Vintage. $7.89.

At th

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GOOD Books: Gifts for Parents

The Marriage Plot
By Jeffrey Eugenides
416 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $16.05.

Chances ar

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GOOD Books: Editors' Picks

Megan Greenwell, managing editor:

The Art of Fielding

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