2011 was definitely a book discovery

Where I once was stuck in a genre for a while...(romantic fiction if you must know), last year was spent discovering new genres and authors. And though I've spent the last three months stuck in the science fiction/fantasy/adventure genre, my 2011 booklist says otherwise. From George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones to the unknown memoir of The Autobiography of an Execution by David. R. Row... to name a few. What did you read last year?

Some of mine:
The Shack by William P. Young
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Row
The Nora Roberts Bride Quartet series
Something Borrowed and Something Blue by Emily Giffin
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Ugly Series by Scott Westerfeld
The Giver by Lois Lowry