Winter 2006 Reading List
This year's recommendations for the best winter reading from book editors and independent bookstore owners
Barbara Hoffert
Editor, Library Journal Book Review
Against the Day
by Thomas Pynchon
The Lay of the Land
by Richard Ford
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Giraffe: A Novel
by J. M. Ledgard
The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
Forgetfulness
by Ward Just
The Echo Maker: A Novel
by Richard Powers
Awake in the Dark: Stories
by Shira Nayman
Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves
by Helene Grimaud
Barbara Meade
Co-owner, Politics & Prose Bookstore
The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
by Edward JOnes
The Meaning of Night: A Confession
by Michael Cox
The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos
This I Believe
edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Uncommon Carriers
by John McPhee
Dinah Paul
Owner, A Likely Story Children’s Bookstore
Flotsam
by David Weisner
Dooby Dooby Moo
by Doreen Cronin; Illustrations by Betsey Lewin
Library Lion
by Michelle Knudsen
Clementine
by Sarah Pennypacker; Illustrated by Marla Frazee
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate DiCamillo
So Few of Me
by Peter Reynolds
Framed
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine
The Green Glass Sea
by Ellen Klages
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
by M.T. Anderson
A Creature Was Stirring
by Carter Goodrich
The Miracle of Hanukkah: Blue Apple Books
by Seymour Chwast
Todd Stewart
Co-owner, Vertigo Books
Red Weather: A Novel
by Pauls Toutonghi
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
by Thomas Mullen
Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
by Doreen Baingana
Borkmann's Point: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
by Hakan Nesser
Chourmo
by Jean-Claude Izzo
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
by Nicholas Lemman
Voices of Time: A Life in Stories
by Eduardo Galeano
A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension
by Sally Price and Richard Price

