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Absurdistan
Gary Shteyngart · 2006 · 1 honor
2
Citizen Vince
Jess Walter · 2006 · 1 honor
3
Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins · 2006 · 1 honor
4
Falling Through the Earth
Danielle Trussoni · 2006 · 1 honor
5
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins · 2006 · 1 honor
6
March
Geraldine Brooks · 2006 · 1 honor
7
Mayflower
Nathaniel Philbrick · 2006 · 1 honor
8
On Beauty
Zadie Smith · 2006 · 1 honor
9
Seeker
Jack McDevitt · 2006 · 1 honor
10
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl · 2006 · 1 honor
11
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson · 2006 · 1 honor
12
Splay Anthem
Nathaniel Mackey · 2006 · 1 honor
13
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
M. T. Anderson · 2006 · 1 honor
14
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel · 2006 · 1 honor
15
The Echo Maker
Richard Powers · 2006 · 1 honor
16
The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud · 2006 · 1 honor
17
The Hello, Goodbye Window
Chris Raschka · 2006 · 1 honor
18
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai · 2006 · 1 honor
19
The Lay of the Land
Richard Ford · 2006 · 1 honor
20
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright · 2006 · 1 honor
21
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan · 2006 · 1 honor
22
The Places in Between
Rory Stewart · 2006 · 1 honor
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan · 2006 · 1 honor