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New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2006 (fiction and nonfiction)
1.
The Road
by:
Cormac McCarthy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,679 ratings
2.
Suite Française
by:
Irène Némirovsky
3.86 avg rating — 77,017 ratings
3.
Eat, Pray, Love
by:
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.64 avg rating — 1,819,795 ratings
4.
The Inheritance of Loss
by:
Kiran Desai
3.45 avg rating — 54,325 ratings
5.
Half of a Yellow Sun
by:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.34 avg rating — 176,450 ratings
6.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by:
Nathaniel Philbrick
3.89 avg rating — 45,338 ratings
6.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by:
Michael Pollan
4.19 avg rating — 208,899 ratings
8.
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by:
Marisha Pessl
3.70 avg rating — 48,385 ratings
9.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
by:
Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating — 60,120 ratings
10.
Digging to America
by:
Anne Tyler
3.59 avg rating — 23,215 ratings
11.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by:
Alison Bechdel
4.08 avg rating — 197,138 ratings
12.
Black Swan Green
by:
David Mitchell
3.98 avg rating — 43,417 ratings
13.
One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)
by:
Kate Atkinson
3.82 avg rating — 48,949 ratings
14.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings
15.
Against the Day
by:
Thomas Pynchon
4.05 avg rating — 10,019 ratings
16.
Absurdistan
by:
Gary Shteyngart
3.32 avg rating — 13,867 ratings
17.
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
by:
Hampton Sides
4.29 avg rating — 19,126 ratings
18.
State of Denial
by:
Bob Woodward
3.80 avg rating — 4,019 ratings
19.
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by:
Shirin Ebadi
4.18 avg rating — 5,647 ratings
20.
Arthur & George
by:
Julian Barnes
3.72 avg rating — 18,624 ratings
20.
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
by:
Jane Gardam
3.95 avg rating — 19,701 ratings
22.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.36 avg rating — 36,105 ratings
23.
The Emperor's Children
by:
Claire Messud
2.98 avg rating — 21,373 ratings
24.
The Keep
by:
Jennifer Egan
3.49 avg rating — 17,299 ratings
25.
Everyman
by:
Philip Roth
3.62 avg rating — 21,062 ratings
26.
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
by:
Douglas Brinkley
4.17 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
27.
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by:
Dale Peterson
4.20 avg rating — 910 ratings
28.
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
by:
David Foster Wallace
4.18 avg rating — 52,975 ratings
29.
The Echo Maker
by:
Richard Powers
3.44 avg rating — 12,179 ratings
29.
Lisey's Story
by:
Stephen King
3.70 avg rating — 92,729 ratings
29.
Uncommon Carriers
by:
John McPhee
3.97 avg rating — 2,369 ratings
32.
Gate of the Sun
by:
Elias Khoury
3.90 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
33.
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
by:
Jonathan Franzen
3.42 avg rating — 6,542 ratings
34.
Collected Poems, 1947-1997
by:
Allen Ginsberg
4.31 avg rating — 2,672 ratings
35.
Alentejo Blue
by:
Monica Ali
2.77 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
36.
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by:
Bill Buford
3.90 avg rating — 25,084 ratings
37.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by:
Elizabeth Kolbert
4.04 avg rating — 4,756 ratings
38.
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
by:
Francine Prose
3.77 avg rating — 11,631 ratings
39.
Eat the Document
by:
Dana Spiotta
3.65 avg rating — 2,918 ratings
39.
Andrew Carnegie
by:
David Nasaw
3.86 avg rating — 5,708 ratings
41.
Terrorist
by:
John Updike
3.17 avg rating — 4,686 ratings
42.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by:
Thomas E. Ricks
4.09 avg rating — 7,790 ratings
43.
The Possibility of an Island
by:
Michel Houellebecq
3.80 avg rating — 16,548 ratings
43.
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
by:
Michael Lewis
4.17 avg rating — 99,771 ratings
45.
Last Evenings on Earth
by:
Roberto Bolaño
4.11 avg rating — 5,139 ratings
46.
Apex Hides the Hurt
by:
Colson Whitehead
3.50 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
46.
Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West To Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself
by:
Terri Jentz
3.75 avg rating — 2,077 ratings
48.
The Dead Fish Museum
by:
Charles D'Ambrosio
3.93 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
48.
The Dream Life of Sukhanov
by:
Olga Grushin
3.90 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
50.
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
by:
Peter Hessler
4.22 avg rating — 7,537 ratings
51.
The Lay of the Land (Frank Bascombe, #3)
by:
Richard Ford
3.92 avg rating — 4,803 ratings
51.
Strong Is Your Hold
by:
Galway Kinnell
4.06 avg rating — 345 ratings
53.
Flaubert: A Biography
by:
Frederick Brown
3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings
54.
High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006
by:
Joyce Carol Oates
4.17 avg rating — 861 ratings
55.
Intuition
by:
Allegra Goodman
3.33 avg rating — 4,212 ratings
56.
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2007
by:
Ishmael Reed
4.03 avg rating — 89 ratings
57.
The Stories of Mary Gordon
by:
Mary Gordon
3.91 avg rating — 164 ratings
58.
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by:
Francis Fukuyama
3.51 avg rating — 570 ratings
59.
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
by:
Taylor Branch
4.43 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
60.
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World
by:
Matthew Stewart
3.99 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
61.
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
by:
Frank Rich
3.88 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
62.
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by:
Julie Phillips
4.24 avg rating — 1,381 ratings
63.
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
by:
Pankaj Mishra
3.70 avg rating — 462 ratings
64.
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
by:
Niall Ferguson
4.08 avg rating — 3,230 ratings