SEATTLE - The much-lauded novel "The Sisters Brothers" by Vancouver Island native Patrick deWitt has topped Amazon.ca's Best Books of 2011 list.

Earlier this month, the comic western won a Governor General's Literary Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

It also made the Scotiabank Giller Prize and Britain's Man Booker Prize short lists.

Another novel that made the aforementioned short lists and ended up winning the Giller, "Half-Blood Blues" by Victoria-based Esi Edugyan, is No. 5 on Amazon.ca's compilation of the top 100 books of 2011.

Amazon.ca book editors choose the annual list, which this year also includes American author Erik Larson's non-fiction title "In the Garden of Beasts" at No. 2.

Coming in at No. 3. was "The Art of Fielding: A Novel" by American Chad Harbach, followed by the novel "1Q84" by Japan's Haruki Murakami.

This list is rounded out by "What It's Like to Go to War" by Karl Marlantes; "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides; "The Cat's Table" by Michael Ondaatje; "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson; and "Hot Art" by Joshua Knelman.