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Publisher Weekly's Best Books of 2006

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Fiction

The End of Story  Peter Abrahams
The Littlest Hitler: stories  Ryan Boudinot
Theft  Peter Cary
Brothers Da Chen
A Corpse in the Koryo  James Church
The Inheritance of Loss  Kiran Desai
The Lay of the Land  Richard Ford
The King of Lies  John Hart
Silence of the Grave  Arnaldur Indriason
Two Time  Chris Knopf
The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories  Valerie Martin 
The Alibi Club  Francine Mathews
The Road  Cormac McCarthy
The Dead Yard  Adrian McKinty
The Summer Snow  Rebecca Pawel 
The Night Gardener  George Pelecanos
Impulse  Frederick Ramsay
Now is the Hour  Tom Spanbauer 
All Mortal Flesh  Julia Spencer-Fleming
Map of Glass  Jane Urquhart
A Woman of Jerusalem  A.B. Yehoshua
 

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Non-fiction

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968  Taylor Branch
Flaubert: a biography  Frederick Brown

Our Town: a heartland lynching, a haunted town and the hidden America  Cynthia Carr

My Life in France  Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Small is the New Big and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas  Seth Godin
There is No Me Without You  Melissa Fay Greene
Unquiet Grave: the FBI and the struggle for the soul of Indian country  Steve Hendricks
The Iron Cage: the story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood  Rashid Khalidi 
Kate: the woman who was Hepburn  William Mann
Clemente: the passion and grace of baseball's last hero  David Maraniss
Cross X: a turbulent, triumphant season with an inner-city debate squad  Joe Miller
Justice for All: Earl Warren and the nation he made  Jim Newton
Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war  Nathaniel Philbrick
James Tiptree, Jr.: the double life of Alice B. Sheldon  Julie Phillips
Omnivore's Dilemma  Michael Pollan

The Echoing Green: the untold story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the shot heard round the

   world  Joshua Prager

William James: in the maelstrom of American modernism
Fiasco  Thomas Ricks
Song for My Fathers: a New Orleans story in black and white  Tom Sancton

Medical Apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on black Americans from colonial times to

   the present  Harriet Washington

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11  Lawrence Wright
 

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