On Saturday, November 26, 2011, The Globe and Mail released their Top 100 issue, celebrating the best books of the year. We are so proud to be the home of 36 of those books! Have you read them all?

CANADIAN FICTION

• A Good Man by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston
• Alone in the Classroom by Elizabeth Hay
• By Love Possessed by Lorna Goodison
• Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien
• Don’t Be Afraid by Steven Hayward
• Every Time We Say Goodbye by Jamie Zeppa
• The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
• The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
• The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott
• The Thirteen by Susie Moloney
• Vital Signs by Tessa McWatt

FOREIGN FICTION

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murikami
• A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin
• Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
• Disaster Was My God by Bruce Duffy
• Ragnarok by AS Byatt
• The Cardboard Valise by Ben Katchor
• The Empty Family by Colm Toibin
• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
• The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips

NON-FICTION

• Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
• Blue Nights by Joan Didion
• In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
• Metamaus by Art Spiegelman
• Nation Maker by Richard Gwyn
• The Beautiful and The Damned by Siddhartha Deb
• The Immortalization Commission by John Gray
• The Information by James Gleick
• The Measure of a Man by JJ Lee
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• When the Gods Changed by Peter C Newman

POETRY

• Folk by Jacob McArthur Mooney
• Origami Dove by Susan Musgrave

What were your best books of 2011? What are you still hoping to squeeze onto your reading pile in December?