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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

Barbara Meade
Co-owner, Politics & Prose Bookstore

The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud

The Keep
by Jennifer Egan

The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos

This I Believe
edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman

Uncommon Carriers
by John McPhee

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

So Few of Me
by Peter Reynolds

Framed
by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine

The Green Glass Sea
by Ellen Klages

A Creature Was Stirring
by Carter Goodrich

Todd Stewart
Co-owner, Vertigo Books

Red Weather: A Novel
by Pauls Toutonghi

Chourmo
by Jean-Claude Izzo

Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension
by Sally Price and Richard Price

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