Alexandra Moss's "Books I've read in 2006"

1. 1. Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture by Marvin Harris Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Granta 26: Travel Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia Drag me to re-order

5. 5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux Drag me to re-order

7. 7. The Chinese Gold Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story (Judge Dee Mysteries) by Robert Van Gulik Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Where I Was From by Joan Didion Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Drag me to re-order

11. 11. In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs : A Memoir of Iran by Christopher de Bellaigue Drag me to re-order

12. 12. The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper Drag me to re-order

13. 13. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Drag me to re-order

14. 14. Seeing by Jose Saramago Drag me to re-order

15. 15. In Siberia by Colin Thubron Drag me to re-order

16. 16. The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating by Melissa Caldwell Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Southeast Asia: An Introductory History by Milton Osborne Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell Drag me to re-order

19. 19. The Lost Messiah by John Freely Drag me to re-order

20. 20. God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme by Chris Roberts Drag me to re-order

24. 24. The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) by Trevor Corson Drag me to re-order

25. 25. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer Drag me to re-order

27. 27. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Drag me to re-order

29. 29. A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge Drag me to re-order

30. 30. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge Drag me to re-order

31. 31. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson Drag me to re-order

32. 32. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte Drag me to re-order

33. 33. My Life in France by Julia Child Drag me to re-order

34. 34. The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste (P.S.) by Elin McCoy Drag me to re-order

35. 35. Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret Drag me to re-order

36. 36. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford Drag me to re-order

37. 37. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts Drag me to re-order

38. 38. Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution by Steven Poole Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Drag me to re-order

41. 41. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower Drag me to re-order

42. 42. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Drag me to re-order

43. 43. ? Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray Drag me to re-order

44. 44. Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips Drag me to re-order

45. 45. The Crusades: A History; Second Edition by Jonathan Riley-Smith Drag me to re-order

46. 46. I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves Drag me to re-order

47. 47. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami Drag me to re-order

48. 48. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card Drag me to re-order