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linggeek's "NPR Holiday Books 2006"

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"The titles listed below have been included in roundups of best 2006 literature and recommended gifts for NPR and NPR.org." Excludes cookbooks.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6616366

  1. 1.
    365 Penguins
    by Jean-Luc Fromental

  2. 2.
    Eddie's Kingdom
    by D.B. Johnson

  3. 3.
    Zuzu's Wishing Cake
    by Linda Michelin

  4. 4.
    Flamingos on the Roof
    by Calef Brown

  5. 5.
    Mr. Maxwell's Mouse
    by Frank Asch

  6. 6.
    Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
    by Rudyard Kipling

  7. 7.
    Shlemiel Crooks
    by Anna Olswanger

  8. 8.
    The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
    by Diane Setterfield

  9. 9.
    Magic Time: A Novel
    by Doug Marlette

  10. 10.
    Thirteen Moons: A Novel
    by Charles Frazier

  11. 11.
    Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
    by William J. Mann

  12. 13.
    On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News'
    by John Dickerson

  13. 14.
    Humankind
    by Yoshio Komastu

  14. 16.
    Chairs: A History
    by Florence de Dampierre

  15. 17.
    Mexican Calendar Girls: Chicas de calendarios Mexicanos
    by Angela Villalba

  16. 18.
    Cancer Vixen: A True Story
    by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

  17. 19.
    Chicken with Plums
    by Marjane Satrapi

  18. 20.
    Puccini's Ghosts
    by Morag Joss

  19. 21.
    The Night Gardener
    by George Pelecanos

  20. 22.
    Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
    by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

  21. 24.
    The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
    by Daniel Mendelsohn

  22. 26.

  23. 27.
    A Godly Hero : The Life of William Jennings Bryan
    by Michael Kazin

  24. 28.
    Intuition
    by Allegra Goodman

  25. 29.
    The Emperor's Children (Vintage)
    by Claire Messud

  26. 30.
    Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
    by Deborah Eisenberg

  27. 31.
    A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel
    by Ken Kalfus

  28. 32.
    Triangle: A Novel
    by Katharine Weber

  29. 33.
    The View from Castle Rock: Stories
    by Alice Munro

  30. 34.
    After This
    by Alice McDermott

  31. 36.
    Special Topics in Calamity Physics
    by Marisha Pessl

  32. 37.
    Please, Mr. Einstein
    by Jean-Claude Carriere

  33. 38.
    The Ghost at the Table: A Novel (Shannon Ravenel Books)
    by Suzanne Berne

  34. 39.
    On Agate Hill: A Novel
    by Lee Smith

  35. 43.
    Against the Day
    by Thomas Pynchon

  36. 44.
    Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
    by Jonathan Lear

  37. 45.
    The Echo Maker: A Novel
    by Richard Powers

  38. 46.

  39. 48.
    Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Sigrid Undset

  40. 49.
    The Zero
    by Walter Jess

  41. 51.
    Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Eileen Chang

  42. 52.
    Resurrection
    by Tucker Malarkey

  43. 53.
    BLOOD AND THUNDER: AN EPIC OF THE AMERICAN WEST
    by HAMPTON SIDES

  44. 54.
    Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days
    by James Salter

  45. 55.
    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
    by Brooks Max

  46. 57.
    American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom
    by Harold Bloom

  47. 59.
    The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
    by Steven Lee Beeber

  48. 60.
    Winslow Homer: An American Vision
    by Randall C. Griffin

  49. 62.

  50. 63.
    Life: A Journey Through Time

  51. 64.
    Seedheads in the Garden
    by Noël Kingsbury

  52. 67.
    Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods
    by Julie Zickefoose

  53. 68.
    Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (HOW)
    by Dr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey

  54. 72.
    A Field Guide to Roadside Technology
    by Ed Sobey

  55. 73.
    This Jazz Man
    by Karen Ehrhardt

  56. 74.
    Dizzy
    by Jonah Winter

  57. 75.
    Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
    by Adam Rex

  58. 76.
    G Is for One Gzonk!: An Alpha-number-bet Book
    by Tony DiTerlizzi

  59. 77.
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    The Snow Globe Family
    by Jane O'Connor

  60. 78.
    Merry Un-Christmas
    by Mike Reiss

  61. 79.
    Eight Wild Nights: A Family Hanukkah Tale
    by Brian P. Cleary

  62. 81.
    The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea
    by Anne Sibley O'Brien

  63. 82.
    Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters
    by Robert Sabuda

  64. 83.
    To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
    by Siena Cherson Siegel

  65. 84.
    Born to Rock
    by Gordon Korman

  66. 85.
    Sold
    by Patricia McCormick

  67. 86.
    A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
    by Laura Amy Schlitz

  68. 87.
    American Born Chinese
    by Gene Luen Yang

  69. 88.
    Kampung Boy
    by Lat

  70. 89.
    Chowder
    by Peter Brown

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