Much to my amazement, “The Threat Matrix” has been named one of the best nonfiction books of 2011 by Kirkus. Kirkus had given it a starred review when the book was originally published in March, but I’m enormously gratified to see that it rose to the top of the heap again for the year-end honors.

To be on the top 10 list for current affairs with Peter Bergen and Francis Fukuyama is pretty cool, as is appearing on the broader list with some of my favorite books of the year—like David Brooks’s Social Animal and Adam Goodheart’s 1861.

“The Threat Matrix” will be out in paperback in a few weeks, with an updated epilogue, if you’d like to preorder from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Politics & Prose.