Things I Read in 2006

Explore my curated list of books read in 2006, featuring top picks, hidden gems, and personal reviews. Discover must-read titles and literary favorites from that year.

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Black Swan Green

by David Stephen Mitchell

A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he …
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An American Tragedy

by Theodore Dreiser

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War and Peace

by graf Leo Tolstoy

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families
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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Originally published in 1990 by North Point Press.
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Fledgling

by Octavia E. Butler

A young girl suffering from amnesia wakes up to find that she's actually a middle-aged vampire.
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The Night Watch

by Sarah Waters

“[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”—Chicago Tribune Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out …
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty

by Edmund White

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big …
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A Man Without a Country

by Kurt Vonnegut

Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, "Only Kidding" delivers Vonnegut …
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A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov

In its adventurous happenings–its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues–A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, …
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Into Thin Air

by Jon Krakauer

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in …
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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and …
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The Sandman: The Doll's House. Originally published in single magazine form as The Sandman 9-16 Cover
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The Sandman: The Doll's House. Originally published in single magazine form as The Sandman 9-16

by Neil Gaiman

An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother, Dream, instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, …
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The Sandman

by Neil Gaiman

A collection of eight comics that introduce the series' lead character, the Sandman, Lord of Dreams.
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by Brian K. Vaughan

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