10 best books of 2011, according to Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly picks the best nonfiction and fiction titles of 2011.

3. "State of Wonder," by Ann Patchett

Even better than “Bel Canto”? That’s what some readers are insisting about Ann Patchett’s latest. This new novel is set in the Amazon, where a young pharmaceutical worker has been sent by her boss (who also happens to be her lover) to investigate the death of a colleague. Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp wrote about "State of Wonder" that "Patchett has included everything from cannibals to giant snakes, and in the process, created the literary must-read of the summer."

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