My favorite reads of 2011:

Non-fiction
David Eagleman – Incognito; Lives of the Brain (2011)
Richard Wiseman – 59 Seconds (2010)

Honorable mention
V. Ramachandran - The Tell-Tale Brain; A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (2011)
J. Thomson - Why We Believe in God (2011)
Lisa Randall - Knocking on Heaven's Door (2011)
Brian Greene - The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (2011)
Lynne Kelly - The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal (2005)

Fiction
Michael Prescott -  Last Breath (2001)
H.W. Bernard – Eyewall (2011)

Honorable mention
Lisa Gardner – Alone (2005)
Michael Prescott - Blind Pursuit (2011)
Lee Child – Persuader (2009)
Michael Connelly - Black Ice (2003)
James Rollins - The Judas Strain (2011)