Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books2006

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67 Works 98,601 Books 3,527 Reviews ½ 4.0
Categories:
All, Arts and Literature (89), Best of the Year Title (1), Biography (204), Biography & Memoir (8), Booklist Editor's Choice (2), Business (1), Fiction (554), Genre Fiction (19), Geography & Travel (4), Graphic Novels for Adults (1), Health & Medicine (11), Health and Medicine (2), History (139), History & Travel (10), Illus: Fred Marcellino (1), Memoir (2), Nonfiction (1), Philosophy (1), Philosophy and Psychology (1), Poetry (41), Reference Sources (2), Religion (5), Science (63), Science & Technology (15), Social Sciences (169), Technology (1), Top of the List (7), Travel (2), No Category (267)
Years:
All, 2023 (61), 2022 (62), 2021 (66), 2020 (65), 2019 (68), 2018 (58), 2017 (65), 2016 (60), 2015 (67), 2014 (63), 2013 (65), 2012 (58), 2011 (65), 2010 (66), 2009 (58), 2008 (66), 2007 (66), 2006 (67), 2005 (66), 2004 (61), 2003 (62), 2002 (68), 2001 (62), 2000 (69), 1999 (66), 1993 (1), 1990 (1), 1990 ed. (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers
Arts and Literature2006
Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Arts and Literature2006
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor
Biography2006
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
Biography2006
Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown
Biography2006
The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop
Biography2006
Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein
Biography2006
George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson
Biography2006
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Biography2006
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line by George Hutchinson
Biography2006
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady by Laura Tyson Li
Biography2006
Truck: A Love Story (P.S.) by Michael Perry
Biography2006
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson
Biography2006
Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq by Jackie Spinner
Biography2006
A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Asian Voices) by Sasha Su-Ling Welland
Biography2006
Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long by Jr. Richard D. White
Biography2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction2006
The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
Fiction2006
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Fiction2006
Strivers Row by Kevin Baker
Fiction2006
Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
Fiction2006
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
Fiction2006
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Fiction2006
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Fiction2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Fiction2006
The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes
Fiction2006
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
Fiction2006
The World to Come by Dara Horn
Fiction2006
The Willow Field by William Kittredge
Fiction2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Fiction2006
After This by Alice McDermott
Fiction2006
The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
Fiction2006
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Fiction2006
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Fiction2006
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Fiction2006
There Will Never Be Another You by Carolyn See
Fiction2006
Redemption by Frederick Turner
Fiction2006
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Fiction2006
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Fiction2006
Terrorist by John Updike
Fiction2006
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Fiction2006
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown
History2006
Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity by Harry Bruinius
History2006
Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea by Frank Delaney
History2006
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
History2006
Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists by Bill Kauffman
History2006
A History of the End of the World by Jonathan Kirsch
History2006
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
History2006
The English Civil War: A People's History by Diane Purkiss
History2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
History2006
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
History2006
Path, Crooked Path by John Balaban
Poetry2006
Field Knowledge by Morri Creech
Poetry2006
Poems 1955-2005 by Anne Stevenson
Poetry2006
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs by Madeleine K. Albright
Social Sciences2006
The Listening Heart: Vocation and the Crisis of Modern Culture by A. J. Conyers
Social Sciences2006
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
Social Sciences2006
High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health by Elizabeth Grossman
Social Sciences2006
One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity by Nicolas Hulot
Social Sciences2006
Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry by Dan Hurley
Social Sciences2006
Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture by Michael Kammen
Social Sciences2006
Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
Social Sciences2006
Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America by Eyal Press
Social Sciences2006
The Iraq Study Group Report by The Iraq Study Group
Social Sciences2006
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Social Sciences2006
Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
2006
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hanna Jansen
2006

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