The Best Books I Read In 2006

Discover the best books of 2006 with this curated list of top reads. Find your next favorite novel, memoir, or nonfiction pick from this handpicked selection.

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

by Robert Shea

Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle …
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Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Thomas Pynchon

A Penguin Classic Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half …
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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism …
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The Emigrants

by Winfried Georg Sebald

Four narratives weave history and fiction together as refugees from the Holocaust remember their experiences.
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Underworld

by Don DeLillo

A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld …
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Child of God

by Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man …
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The Engineer of Human Souls

by Josef Škvorecký

"So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud." Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Martin Dressler

by Steven Millhauser

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as …
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