They created a list of 100 last week... now the NY Times narrows it down to the 10 best books of 2006.
Fiction:
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
The Collected Short Stories of Amy Hempel
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Nonfiction:
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
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