Reader’s Choice 2011
The 
Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Julian Treslove, professionally unspectacular BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, popular Jewish philosopher and TV personality, are old school friends. They’ve never quite lost touch with each other – or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Treslove dines with recent widowers Libor and Finkler at Libor’s London apartment for a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence. As Treslove walks home he is attacked and robbed, and everything changes.
Winner of the 2011 Booker Prize.
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The G
olden Mean by Annabel Lyon
On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. Initially Aristotle hopes for a short stay in the brutal backwater of his childhood. But, as a man of relentless curiosity and reason, Aristotle warms to the challenge of instructing his young charges, particularly Alexander, in whom he recognizes a kindred spirit.
Giller Prize finalist in 2009.
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Great 
House by Nicole Krauss
Great House is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change?
Connecting the four stories in Great House is a desk that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared.
Orange Prize finalist in 2011; National Book Award finalist in 2010.
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Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
When retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs. Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper, he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century. United by a love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the pair soon find their friendship on developing into something more. But although the Major was actually born in Lahore, and Mrs. Ali was born in Cambridge, village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a foreigner. The Major has always taken special pride in the village, but will he be forced to choose between his home and a future with Mrs. Ali?
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Parrot and O
livier in America by Peter Carey
With dazzling exuberance and all the richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer, Peter Carey explores the birth of democracy, the limits of friendship and whether people really can remake themselves in a New World.
Finalist for the National Book Award and Man Booker Prize.
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