The New York Times has released their list of 10 best books for 2006. All comments are from the NYT article:
- Abursdistan by Gary Shetyngart--exuberant second novel that is smart, funny, and extraordinarily moving
- Collected Stories of Amy Hempel--urbane, pointillistic and wickedly funny short stories
- Emperor's Children by Claire Messud--unsparing and sympathetic novel set amid the cultural Manhattan in 2001
- Lay of the Land by Richard Ford--the third installment in the serial epic of Frank Bascombe set in Florida 2000 (The Sportswriter and Independence Day were the first two in the series.)
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl--buoyantly literate first novel, a murder mystery narrated by a precocious teenager
- Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni--searing memoir of the author's girlhood in Wisconsin with her war-damaged father
- Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright--fullest account yet of the events that led to the fateful day
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick--absorbing history of the Plymouth Colony
- Ominivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan--traces the origins of four measl from a fast food dinner to a hunter-gatherer feast--uncommonly good American food writing
- Places in Between by Rory Stewart--splendid travel journal of the author's walk across Afghanistan in January 2002
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