PW named their Top 10 books of 2011:
Fiction
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (FSG)
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh (Small Beer)
There but for the by Ali Smith (Pantheon)
Nonfiction
Bossypants by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur Books)
Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie (Random)
Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson (Knopf)
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina (Graywolf)
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)