Top 11 of 2011

Our critics list the best of the year in books, DVDs, albums and video games

By Jaime Forsythe , Shannon Fay , Colin Chisholm , Carsten Knox , Molly Segal , Matt Semansky , Alison Lang , Mark Black , Stephanie Johns , Tara Thorne , Doug Taylor , Trevor Savory , Andrew Patterson , Adrian Lee , Matthew Ritchie , Dave Hayden and Ryan McNutt

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Settle in and read our critics' picks of the year. Learn about yourself and our writers in the process. Possibly a two coffee read and at least one of those coffees should have whiskey in it.