I usually don't bother with filler-pieces like Nicholas Lezard's The pick of paperbacks in 2011 (in the UK) in The Guardian, but a lot of these are under review at the complete review -- and many are, indeed, well worth a look (with the more interesting ones the paperback-originals, rather than the paperback editions of previously published hardbacks ...):
- New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
- Fiasco by Kertész Imre
- The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop
- Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
- The Truth about Marie by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- Solar by Ian McEwan
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Nemesis by Philip Roth