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2006

THE FOUR BEST NOVELS
Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
Suite Francaise	Irene Nemirovsky
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Absurdistan	Gary Shteyngart
Amalgamation Polka	Stephen Wright
Breakable You	Brian Morton
Black Swan Green	David Mitchell
Brookland	Emily Barton
Emperor's Children	Claire Messud
The Keep	Jennifer Egan
Madonnas of Leningrad	Debra Dean
Million Nightingales	Susan Straight
Night Watch	Sarah Waters
People's Act of Love	James Meek
Restless	William Boyd
Space Between Us	Thrity Umrigar
Thin Place	Kathryn Davis
Triangle	Katharine Weber
When Madeline was Young	Jane Hamilton

SHORT STORIES
All Aunt Hagar's Children	Edward P. Jones
Dead Fish Museum	Charles D'Ambrosio

CLOSE, BUT "NO CIGAR"
After This	Alice McDermott
Forgetfulness	Ward Just
Whole World Over	Julia Glass

GOOD READS
Devotion	Howard Norman
Digging to America	Anne Tyler
Special Topics in Calamity Physics	Marisha Pessl
Water for Elephants	Sara Gruen

WATCH FOR
Against the Day	Thomas Pynchon
Burning Bright	Tracy Chevalier
Collected Stories of Amy Hempel	Amy Hempel
Dissident	Nell Freudenberger
Far Country	Daniel Mason
Lay of the Land	Richard Ford
Moral Disorder	Margaret Atwood
On Agate Hill	Lee Smith
Other Side of the Bridge	Mary Lawson
Post-Birthday World	Lionel Shriver
Rise and Shine	Anna Quindlen
Ten Days in the Hills	Jane Smiley
Thirteen Moons	Charles Frazier
View from Castle Rock	Alice Munro
You Don't Love Me Yet	Jonathan Lethem

NONFICTION
American Bloomsbury	Susan Cheever
Book Club Companion	Diana Loevy
Reading Like a Writer	Francine Prose
Leonard Woolf	Victoria Glendinning
The Lost	Daniel Mendelsohn
Mayflower	Nathaniel Philbrick

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR
Fun Home	Alison Bechdel
Strange Piece of Paradise	Terri Jentz
Strong West Wind	Gail Caldwell
Three Dog Life	Abigail Thomas

	Marta Campbell, Head of Collection Management
	Tel: 203-291-4842	E-mail: mcampbell@westportlibrary.org

Last Updated 10/10/06