Book List 2006
January
Freedomland -- Richard Price
Highway 61 Resurfaced -- Bill Fitzhugh
Little House in the Big Woods -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Plot Against America -- Philip Roth
The Motive -- John Lescroart
Turning Angel -- Greg Iles
The Other Boleyn Girl -- Philippa Gregory
The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova
Cell -- Stephen King
Nightmare with Angel -- Stephen Gallagher
An Unfinished Life -- Mark Spragg
Little House on the Prairie -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
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February
The Last Girls -- Lee Smith
Wolves Eat Dogs -- Martin Cruz Smith
Shem Creek -- Dot Frank
Island of the Sequined Love Nun -- Christopher Moore
Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove -- Christopher Moore
The Hunt Club -- John Lescroart
With No One As Witness -- Elizabeth George
Glimpses -- Lewis Shiner
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March
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter S. Thomspon
St. Dale -- Sharyn McCrumb
Raymond and Hannah -- Stephen Marche
Diary of an Emotional Idiot -- Maggie Estep
Suspect -- Michael Robotham
Eat the Document -- Dana Spiotta
Deserted Cities of the Heart -- Lewis Shiner
Slam -- Lewis Shiner
My Misspent Youth: Essays -- Meghan Daum*
Sam's Letters to Jennifer -- James Patterson
Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ, The Shocking Legacy of the Grail -- Baigent, Leigh&Lincoln*
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- CS Lewis
Pale Horse, Pale Rider -- Katherine Anne Porter
The Glass Palace -- Jeannette Walls*
The Analyst -- John Katzenbach
Too Much, Too Late -- Mark Spitz
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April
The Doctor's Wife -- Elizabeth Brundage
John Gardner: Literary Outlaw -- Barry Sileski*
The Mourning Sexton -- Michael Baron
The Lake of Dead Languages -- Carol Goodman
On Broken Glass: Loving and Losing John Gardner -- Susan Thornton*
Coyote Blue -- Christopher Moore
The Grizzly Maze -- Nick Jans*
The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini
The Tipping Point -- Malcolm Gladwell*
Blow Fly -- Patricia Cornwell
Lost -- Michael Robotham
Almost Paradise -- Susan Isaacs
Codex -- Lev Grossman
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May
Before You Know Kindness -- Chris Bohjalian
Whale Music -- Paul Quarrington
The Painted Drum -- Louise Erdrich
Rising Phoenix -- Kyle Mills
Storming Heaven -- Kyle Mills
A Perfect Nightmare -- John Saul
Best Friends -- Martha Moody
How to Be Lost -- Amanda Eyre Ward
Collapse -- Jared Diamond*
House -- Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker
Carolina Isle -- Jude Devereaux
The Sacred Cut -- David Hewson
The Last Templar -- Raymond Khoury
Goodnight Nobody -- Jennifer Weiner
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June
No Country for Old Men -- Cormac McCarthy
Twins -- Roxanne Pulitzer
Baal -- Robert McCammon
Coffee and Kung Fu -- Karen Brichoux
Mr. Murder -- Dean Koontz
Honeymoon with My Brother -- Franz Wisner*
Losing Gemma -- Katy Gardner
102 Minutes -- Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn*
Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death -- Pories, Jain and Harper, eds.*
Miracle in the Andes -- Nando Parrado*
Dead Watch -- John Sanford
The Soul Hunter -- Melanie Wells
Blue Water -- A. Manette Mansay
The Man of My Dreams -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Confessions of a Recovering Slut, And Other Love Stories -- Hollis Gillespie*
Possible Side Effects -- Augusten Burroughs*
Perfect Match -- Jodi Picoult
Haunted -- Chuck Palahniuk
Freakonomics -- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner*
3 Nights in August -- Buzz Bissinger*
Uncommon Carriers -- John McPhee*
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July
Girlfriend in a Coma -- Douglas Copeland
The Hundreth Man -- Jack Kerley
What Was She Thinking (Notes on a Scandal): A Novel -- Zoe Heller
Ghostfires -- Keith Dixon
A Strange Piece of Paradise -- Terri Jentz*
Ship Sooner -- Mary Sullivan
Something Rotten -- Jasper Fforde
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology -- Eric Brende*
The Devil Wears Prada -- Lauren Weisberger
An Uncommon Degree of Popularity -- Kathleen Gilles Seidel
The Inner Circle -- T.C. Boyle
A Dirty Job -- Christopher Moore
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It -- Marcia Angell, M.D.*
Such Times -- Christopher Coe
Our Lady of the Forest -- David Guterson
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August
Twisted -- Jonathan Kellerman
Trace -- Patricia Cornwell
Nights of Rain and Stars -- Maeve Binchy
The Memory Keeper's Daughter -- Kim Edwards
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews*
Labyrinth -- Kate Mosse
The Constant Gardener -- John Le Carre
Marker -- Robin Cook
The Tattooed Girl -- Joyce Carol Oates
The Mango Opera -- Tom Corcoran
Change Baby -- June Spence
Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex -- Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.*
The Dogs of Babel -- Carolyn Parkhurst
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September
Terrorist -- John Updike
Gumbo Limbo -- Tom Corcoran
Bloodlines -- Jan Burke
The Ruins -- Scott Smith
In the Dark of the Night
-- John Saul
The Camel Club -- David Baldacci
The Loop Group -- Larry McMurtry
The Tenth Circle -- Jodi Picoult
Consent to Kill -- Vince Flynn
Tyrannosauras Canyon -- Douglas Preston
To Feel Stuff -- Andrea Seigel
Goodnight Irene -- Jan Burke
Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most -- Gwendolyn Bounds*
Autobiography of a Face -- Lucy Grealy*
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October
Creepers -- David Morrell
Speak Softly, She Can Hear -- Pam Lewis
Magical Thinking -- Augusten Burroughs*
Hour Game -- David Baldacci
Little Earthquakes -- Jennifer Weiner
Little Children -- Tom Perotta
Misfortune -- Wesley Stace
Panic -- Jeff Abbott
The Face of Deception -- Iris Johansen
Candles Burning -- Tabitha King and Michael McDowell
The Girls -- Lori Lansen
The Thirteenth Tale -- Diane Setterfield
Predator -- Patricia Cornwall
Soul Kitchen -- Poppy Z. Brite
The Wave -- Walter Mosely
The Bitch Posse -- Martha O'Connor
A Good Year -- Peter Mayle
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November
Lunar Park -- Bret Easton Ellis
Fox Evil -- Minette Walters
The Sportswriter -- Richard Ford
What Came Before He Shot Her -- Elizabeth George
A Brief History of Time -- Stephen Hawking*
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters -- Elisabeth Robinson
Whiteout -- Ken Follett
Echo Park -- Michael Connelly
Homefront -- Chuck Logan
Independence Day -- Richard Ford
The Cuckoo's Egg -- Cliff Stoll*
The Wife -- Meg Wolitzer
Special Topics in Calamity Physics -- Marisha Pessl
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife -- Mary Roach*
The Expected One -- Kathleen McCowen
Say Goodbye -- Lewis Shiner
An Innocent Man -- John Grisham*
Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic is Transforming America -- Christine Wicker*
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December
Plain Truth -- Jodi Picoult
Lost Girl Lost Boy -- Peter Straub
Missing Mom -- Joyce Carol Oates
Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers -- Michael Connelly*
Limitations -- Scott Trurow
Getting Stoned With Savages -- J. Maarten Troost*
Strong Motion -- Jonathan Franzen
Couldn't Keep it To Myself:
Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters - Wally Lamb and the Women of
York Correctional Insitution
London Bridges -- James Patterson
Wormwood -- Poppy Z. Brite
True Evil -- Greg Iles
Wild Fire -- Nelson DeMille
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