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2006 Winter

This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review

Image of Against the Day
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: The Penguin Press (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 1085 pages

Image of The Lay of the Land
Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Knopf (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 496 pages

Image of The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Knopf (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Image of Giraffe: A Novel
Author: J. M. Ledgard
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Image of The Emperor's Children
Author: Claire Messud
Publisher: Knopf (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

Image of Forgetfulness
Author: Ward Just
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages

Image of The Echo Maker: A Novel
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 464 pages

Image of Awake in the Dark: Stories
Author: Shira Nayman
Publisher: Scribner (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Image of Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves
Author: Helene Grimaud
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Barbara Meade
Co-owner, Politics & Prose Bookstore

Image of The Emperor's Children
Author: Claire Messud
Publisher: Knopf (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages

Image of The Keep
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Knopf (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Image of All Aunt Hagar's Children
Author: Edward P. Jones
Publisher: Amistad (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 399 pages

Image of The Meaning of Night: A Confession
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: W. W. Norton (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 672 pages

Image of The Night Gardener
Author: George Pelecanos
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

Image of This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Author:
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

Image of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Author: Michael Isikoff, David Corn
Publisher: Crown (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 480 pages

Image of Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration
Author: Seth Shulman
Publisher: University of California Press (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 222 pages

Image of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Viking Adult (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages

Image of Uncommon Carriers
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Dinah Paul, A Likely Story Children’s Bookstore

Image of Flotsam (Caldecott Medal Book)
Author: David Wiesner
Publisher: Clarion Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Image of Dooby Dooby Moo
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Atheneum (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Image of Library Lion
Author: Michelle Knudsen
Publisher: Candlewick (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 48 pages

Image of Clementine
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 144 pages

Image of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 228 pages

Image of The Interruption of Everything
Author: Terry McMillan
Publisher: Viking Adult (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 384 pages

Image of 47
Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

Image of So Few of Me
Author: Peter H. Reynolds
Publisher: Candlewick (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages

Image of Framed
Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Publisher: HarperCollins (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages

Image of Fairest
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Publisher: HarperCollins (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages

Image of The Green Glass Sea
Author: Ellen Klages
Publisher: Viking Juvenile (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages

Image of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
Author: M.T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages

Image of A Creature Was Stirring
Author: Clement Clarke Moore, Carter Goodrich
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 40 pages

Image of The Miracle of Hanukkah
Author: Seymour Chwast
Publisher: Blue Apple Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 28 pages

Todd Stewart
Co-owner, Vertigo Books

Image of Red Weather: A Novel
Author: Pauls Toutonghi
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 256 pages

Image of The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
Author: Thomas Mullen
Publisher: Random House (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 416 pages

Image of Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
Author: Doreen Baingana
Publisher: Harlem Moon (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 184 pages

Image of Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Author: Hakan Nesser
Publisher: Pantheon (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages

Image of Chourmo (Marseilles Trilogy)
Author: Jean-Claude Izzo
Publisher: Europa Editions (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages

Image of Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
Author: Nicholas Lemann
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages

Image of Voices of Time: A Life in Stories
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Metropolitan Books (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 368 pages

Image of A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
Author: Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 480 pages

Image of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Broadway (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages

Image of Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension
Author: Sally Price, Richard Price
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (2006)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages

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