San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearNonfiction2006

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Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
57 Works 61,754 Books 1,765 Reviews 4.1
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WorkYear
The Afterlife by Donald Antrim
2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2006
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor by Paul Beatty
2006
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
2006
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated by Nell Bernstein
2006
Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West by Phyllis Birnbaum
2006
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
2006
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
2006
Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir by Kate Braverman
2006
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
2006
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
2006
Camus at "Combat": Writing 1944-1947 by Albert Camus
2006
The sight of death: an experiment in art writing by T. J. Clark
2006
Follies of the Wise by Frederick Crews
2006
Creationists: Selected Essays: 1993-2006 by E. L. Doctorow
2006
Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead by Tamara Draut
2006
The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
2006
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada
2006
Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein
2006
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
2006
The Journals: Volume II: 1966-1990 by John Fowles
2006
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo
2006
A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass
2006
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment by Linda Gordon
2006
Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan by A. C. Grayling
2006
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes
2006
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey
2006
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson
2006
American Movie Critics: From the Silents Until Now by Phillip Lopate
2006
Simon Bolivar: A Life by John Lynch
2006
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
2006
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice by Greil Marcus
2006
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
2006
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
2006
Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller
2006
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra
2006
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by Jessica Mitford
2006
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
2006
Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made by Jim Newton
2006
The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick
2006
In the Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos by Richard Lloyd Parry
2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
2006
Reporting: Writings from the New Yorker by David Remnick
2006
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson
2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts
2006
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by Michael Sallah
2006
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
2006
You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir by Wole Soyinka
2006
Nicole Kidman by David Thomson
2006
31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today by Barry Werth
2006
What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It by Trish Wood
2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2006
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
2006

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