Not really a blog post, but thought the Red Room Readers who might not have seen Publisher Weekly's Top 10 would be interested.  Here we go:

The Best of the Best Books of 2011: Overall Top 10
1. The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht [21]
2. The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides [15]
3. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami [14]
4. State of Wonder, Ann Patchett [13]
5. The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach [12]
    In The Garden Of Beasts, Erik Larson [12]
7. Blood, Bones & Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton [11]
8. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson [10]

6 books tied in 9th:
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick DeWitt [9]
The Tragedy of Arthur, Arthur Phillips [9]
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes [9]
Open City, Teju Cole [9]
The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst [9]
Bossypants, Tina Fey [9]

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