A bountiful year for book lovers

WHICH would you rather read, a book about Julia Gillard or a book by, or about, Julian Assange? Timely stories of the redhead and the whitehead are both on offer in a very varied year of books.

Life stories top the adult book list in 2011, but it's also a strong year for fiction, notably Scandinavian thrillers (anything to do with the late Stieg Larsson?) and Australian trilogies, short stories and first fiction. We're also writing and publishing plenty of essays.

Whether your taste is for surrealism by Haruki Murakami or Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly, J. M. Coetzee or J. Trollope, there's something for you in 2011.

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