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Fiction   • Non-fiction   •  Advice

Hardcover Fiction

 1.  For One More Day  Mitch Albom
 2.  Cross  James Patterson
 3.  Next  Michael Crichton
 4.  Dear John  Nicholas Sparks
 5.  Hannibal Rising  Thomas Harris
 6.  Treasure of Khan  Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
 7.  Brother Odd  Dean Koontz
 8.  Lisey's Story  Stephen King
 9.  Wild Fire  Nelson DeMille
10. The Boleyn Inheritance  Phillipa Gregory
11. Nature Girl  Carl Hiaasen
12. Santa Cruise  Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
13. H.R.H. Danielle Steel
14. The Shape Shifter  Tony Hillerman Clark
15. Mistral's Kiss  Laurell Hamilton


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Hardcover Non-fiction
 1.  The Audacity of Hope  Barack Obama
 2.  The Innocent Man  John Grisham
 3.  Marley & Me  John Grogan
 4.  Culture Warrior  Bill O'Reilly
 5.  Palestine Peace Not Apartheid  Jimmy Carter
 6.  I Feel Bad About My Neck  Nora Ephron
 7.  I Like You  Amy Sedaris
 8.  Freakonomics  Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
 9.  The God Delusion  Richard Dawkins
10. The World is Flat  Thomas L. Friedman
11. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid  Bill Bryson
12. Mayflower  Nathaniel Philbrick
13. The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook  Steve Doocy
14. U2 by U2  Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. with Neil McCormick
15. State of Denial  Bob Woodward
 

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Hardcover Advice
 1.  You: on a diet  Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz
 2.  Guinness World Records 2007
 3.  Joy of Cooking  Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker
 4.  Homekeeping Handbook  Martha Stewart
 5.  Mad Money  James Cramer with Cliff Mason
 

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The 10 Best Books of 2006

Fiction
 1.  Absurdistan  Gary Shteyngart
 2.  The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel  Amy Hempel
 3.  The Emperor's Children  Claire Messud 
 4.  The Lay of the Land  Richard Ford 
 5.  Special Topics in Calamity Physics  Marisha Pessl
Nonfiction
 6.  Falling Through the Earth  Danielle Trussoni
 7.  The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11  Lawrence Wright
 8.  Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War  Nathaniel Philbrick
 9.  The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals  Michael Pollan
10. The Places in Between  Rory Stewart


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Updated January 2,  2007 by Courtney Moore (cmoore@wppl.org).