Year-End Lists

The Atlantic’s literary editor, Benjamin Schwarz, chooses the best five books of 2011:

[see also 2012]

1. The Hare with Amber Eyes

   A Family’s Century of Art and Loss
   Edmund de Waal
2. Letters to Monica
   Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite
3. The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan
   Richard Nickel and Aaron Suskind, with John Vinci and Ward Miller
4. Saints and Sinners

   Stories
   Edna O’Brien
5. Emily, Alone
   Stewart O’Nan