The New York Times Notable Books of the YearNonfiction2006

Given by The New York Times Book Review

Other Names: The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of Noteworthy Titles, The New York Times Book Review's Books for Christmas (1933-1941), The New York Times Book Review's Christmas Checklist (1947-1948), The New York Times Book Review's A Christmas Guide for Readers (1949 - 1968), The New York Times Book Review's Other Outstanding Books of the Year (1969), The New York Times Book Review's A Selected List From Books of the Year (1970), The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of the Best Books of the Year (1978-1979), A New York Times Notable Book
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The New York Times Book Review's annual list of "Notable Books", currently numbering 100.


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Categories:
All, American Scene (36), Art (13), Art & Architecture (2), Art, Music & Popular Culture (6), Arts, Drama, Music (8), Autobiography & Biography (75), Belles Lettres (3), Biography (13), Children's Books (8), Crime (1), Current Affairs & Social Comment (10), Education (4), Essays & Criticism (17), Essays and Belles-Lettres (1), Essays, Letters & Criticism (5), Fiction (336), Fiction & Poetry (402), Fiction - Comics/Graphics (2), Fiction - Poetry (1), Fiction - Stories (16), Fiction - Thrillers (5), Fiction/Poetry (53), History (5), Humor (2), Music (1), Nonfiction (602), Nonfiction - Biography (2), Nonfiction - Biography - Current Affairs (1), Nonfiction - Biography - History (4), Nonfiction - Biography - Sports (2), Nonfiction - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Current Affairs (8), Nonfiction - Essays (4), Nonfiction - Foreign Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History (28), Nonfiction - History - Current Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History - Memoir (1), Nonfiction - History - Sports (1), Nonfiction - Memoir (54), Nonfiction - Memoir - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Science (10), Nonfiction - Science - History (1), Nonfiction - Sociology (1), Nonfiction - Sociology - Current Affairs (1), Poetry (10), Politics (1), Religion (18), Science & Social Science (1), Science Fiction (1), Thriller (1), Travel, Adventure (2), No Category (197)
Years:
All, 2023 (50), 2022 (7), 2021 (36), 2020 (39), 2019 (40), 2017 (50), 2016 (50), 2012 (47), 2011 (1), 2010 (52), 2009 (55), 2008 (52), 2007 (50), 2006 (50), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1998 (1), 1996 (16), 1991 (1), 1947 (1)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent
WorkYear
The Afterlife by Donald Antrim
2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate
2006
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
2006
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Douglas Brinkley
2006
Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown
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
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke
2006
Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen
2006
Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi
2006
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
2006
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
2006
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
2006
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama
2006
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
2006
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg
2006
Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl
2006
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
2006
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes
2006
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
2006
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
2006
The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp
2006
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
2006
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann
2006
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
2006
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd
2006
Kate: the Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. Mann
2006
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
2006
Happiness: A History by Darrin M. McMahon
2006
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
2006
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond by Pankaj Mishra
2006
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
2006
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson
2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
2006
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
2006
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
2006
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina by Frank Rich
2006
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
2006
Ava Gardner by Lee Server
2006
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
2006
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart
2006
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
2006
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni
2006
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent
2006
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
2006
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
2006
State of Denial by Bob Woodward
2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2006

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