Listed below are the top ten books of 2006 according to the New York Times. I haven't read any of them so I'm going to make my own list of the top 5 books I've read in 2006 at the bottom of this post. Feel free to comment on which books you read that you favored this past year.
NYT best fiction:
1. ABSURDISTAN By Gary Shteyngart
2. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL
3. THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN By Claire Messud
4. THE LAY OF THE LAND By Richard Ford
5. SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS By Marisha Pessl
NYT best non-fiction:
1. FALLING THROUGH THE EARTHA Memoir By Danielle Trussoni
2. THE LOOMING TOWER Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Lawrence Wright, Alfred A. Knopf
3. MAYFLOWERA Story of Courage, Community, and War By Nathaniel Philbrick
4. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMAA Natural History of Four Meals By Michael Pollan
5. THE PLACES IN BETWEEN By Rory Stewart
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My List:
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
2. Vanishing Acts-Jodi Picoult
3. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
4. Osprey Island-Thisbe Nissen
5. Snow Falling on Cedars-David Guterson
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Sunday, December 31, 2006
Best Books of 2006
Listed below are the top ten books of 2006 according to the New York Times. I haven't read any of them so I'm going to make my own list of the top 5 books I've read in 2006 at the bottom of this post. Feel free to comment on which books you read that you favored this past year.
NYT best fiction:
1. ABSURDISTAN By Gary Shteyngart
2. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL
3. THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN By Claire Messud
4. THE LAY OF THE LAND By Richard Ford
5. SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS By Marisha Pessl
NYT best non-fiction:
1. FALLING THROUGH THE EARTHA Memoir By Danielle Trussoni
2. THE LOOMING TOWER Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Lawrence Wright, Alfred A. Knopf
3. MAYFLOWERA Story of Courage, Community, and War By Nathaniel Philbrick
4. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMAA Natural History of Four Meals By Michael Pollan
5. THE PLACES IN BETWEEN By Rory Stewart
Source Link
My List:
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
2. Vanishing Acts-Jodi Picoult
3. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
4. Osprey Island-Thisbe Nissen
5. Snow Falling on Cedars-David Guterson
NYT best fiction:
1. ABSURDISTAN By Gary Shteyngart
2. THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL
3. THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN By Claire Messud
4. THE LAY OF THE LAND By Richard Ford
5. SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS By Marisha Pessl
NYT best non-fiction:
1. FALLING THROUGH THE EARTHA Memoir By Danielle Trussoni
2. THE LOOMING TOWER Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Lawrence Wright, Alfred A. Knopf
3. MAYFLOWERA Story of Courage, Community, and War By Nathaniel Philbrick
4. THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMAA Natural History of Four Meals By Michael Pollan
5. THE PLACES IN BETWEEN By Rory Stewart
Source Link
My List:
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
2. Vanishing Acts-Jodi Picoult
3. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
4. Osprey Island-Thisbe Nissen
5. Snow Falling on Cedars-David Guterson
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