Barbara Hoffert, Editor of Library Journal’s PrepubAlert finished her coverage of \u00a0the National Book Awards the same day Library Journal launched Best Books 2011. She\u00a0says that “the real value of the best-book phenomenon is the conversation it starts. Books are simply too complex to allow for a reductive everyone-will-love-this approach, but they are meant to prompt talk, something that awards do in a really big way.”\u00a0 These books are the “good stuff” that made the “standards of excellence” agreed upon by “intelligent though vastly different editors.” \u00a0<\/p>\n
Below are titles I gleaned from the Library Journal Best Books 2011 categories of mystery, romance, and historical fiction. For those titles In Process keep an eye out for their availability in the future.<\/p>\n
Romance.<\/p>\n
Silk is for Seduction by Loretta Chase. In Process.<\/p>\n
When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James. DB73044.<\/p>\n
Mystery.<\/p>\n
Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon. In Process.<\/p>\n
Historical Fiction.<\/p>\n
Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV by Karleen Koen. In Process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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