LitMinds Best Reads of 2006 is here!
The LitMinds Best Reads of 2006 has arrived! Together, we generated a list with 37 top book recommendations and an impressive mix of reading picks. There were five “grand prize winners” or books nominated by multiple readers. Notably, these books were all novels and included a Man Booker Prize and New York Times Top 10 Book of 2005.
Oh My, Memoirs: The LitMinds Best Reads of 2006 includes 20 fiction and 17 non-fiction selections. Of the non-fiction category, seven of them were memoirs, supporting the theory that there has been a recent boon in memoir-style books.
Here is the list with specific comments from our LitMinds folks to follow shortly:
Grand Prize
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Fiction
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Frances Johnson by Stacey Levine
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
My Year of Meats by Cynthia Orzick
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Memoir
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald
Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Nonfiction
No Plot, No Problem by Chris Baty
How to Change the World by David Bornstein
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgeman
The Present: The Secret to Enjoying Work and Life, Now! by Spencer Johnson
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
Oh My, Memoirs: The LitMinds Best Reads of 2006 includes 20 fiction and 17 non-fiction selections. Of the non-fiction category, seven of them were memoirs, supporting the theory that there has been a recent boon in memoir-style books.
Here is the list with specific comments from our LitMinds folks to follow shortly:
Grand Prize
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Fiction
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Frances Johnson by Stacey Levine
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
My Year of Meats by Cynthia Orzick
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Memoir
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald
Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Nonfiction
No Plot, No Problem by Chris Baty
How to Change the World by David Bornstein
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgeman
The Present: The Secret to Enjoying Work and Life, Now! by Spencer Johnson
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs