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jillelvish's "Books I've read in 2006"

I read over 100 books a year, and these twenty titles listed here are my 10 nonfiction "best" and my 10 fiction "best" picks from my 2006 reading.
1. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
  
2. Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics)
by Jessica Mitford
  
3. Nicholas and Alexandra
by Robert K. Massie
  
4. Woman: An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier
  
5.
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 The Power of Now
by Eckhart Tolle
  
6. Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
by Susan Nagel
  
7. Even the Stars Look Lonesome
by Maya Angelou
  
8. The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die
by Clarissa Pin Estes
  
9. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated
by David D. Burns
  
10. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
  
11. The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property/In Chancery/To Let (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by John Galsworthy
  
12.
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 Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
by C.S. Lewis
  
13. The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
by Pearl S. Buck
  
14.
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 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
  
15.
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 Brideshead Revisted
by Evelyn Waugh
  
16. Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (Loyola Classics Series)
by Rumer Godden
  
17. The Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald
  
18. Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Jerome K. Jerome
  
19. Crampton Hodnet
by Barbara Pym
  
20. Sleeping with Schubert : A Novel
by BONNIE MARSON
  
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Created by jillelvish on Sep 24, 2008.