Slate's Best Books of 2006

1. 1. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies by Lauren Redniss Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Happiness: A History by Darrin M. McMahon Drag me to re-order

5. 5. The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro Drag me to re-order

6. 6. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Angle of Yaw by Ben Lerner Drag me to re-order

9. 9. The Mystery Guest: An Account by Gregoire Bouillier Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Heat by Bill Buford Drag me to re-order

11. 11. Collected Poems by C.K. Williams Drag me to re-order

12. 12. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright Drag me to re-order

13. 13. The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud Drag me to re-order

14. 14. Letters of Martha Gellhorn Drag me to re-order

15. 15. ? The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher Drag me to re-order

16. 16. The Last Supper by Charles McCarry Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Arguments with England: A Memoir by Michael Blakemore Drag me to re-order

20. 20. The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey Drag me to re-order

22. 22. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Old Filth by Jane Gardam Drag me to re-order