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linggeek's "NPR Holiday Books 2006"

"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

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1. 365 Penguins
by Jean-Luc Fromental
  
2. Eddie's Kingdom
by D.B. Johnson
  
3. Zuzu's Wishing Cake
by Linda Michelin
  
4. Flamingos on the Roof
by Calef Brown
  
5. Mr. Maxwell's Mouse
by Frank Asch
  
6. A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
  
7. Shlemiel Crooks
by Anna Olswanger
  
8.
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 The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield
  
9. Magic Time: A Novel
by Doug Marlette
  
10. Thirteen Moons: A Novel
by Charles Frazier
  
11. Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
by William J. Mann
  
12. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage)
by Gene Roberts
  
13. On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star
by John Dickerson
  
14. Humankind
by Yoshio Komastu
  
15. Life: The Platinum Anniversary Collection: 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography
by Editors of Life Magazine
  
16. Chairs: A History
by Florence de Dampierre
  
17. Mexican Calendar Girls: Chicas de calendarios Mexicanos
by Angela Villalba
  
18. Cancer Vixen: A True Story
by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
  
19. Chicken with Plums
by Marjane Satrapi
  
20. Puccini's Ghosts
by Morag Joss
  
21. The Night Gardener
by George Pelecanos
  
22. Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
  
23. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
by Dorothea Lange
  
24. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
by Daniel Mendelsohn
  
25. The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
by Ron Rosenbaum
  
26. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
by Debby Applegate
  
27. A Godly Hero : The Life of William Jennings Bryan
by Michael Kazin
  
28. Intuition
by Allegra Goodman
  
29. The Emperor's Children (Vintage)
by Claire Messud
  
30. Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
by Deborah Eisenberg
  
31. A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel
by Ken Kalfus
  
32. Triangle: A Novel
by Katharine Weber
  
33. The View from Castle Rock: Stories
by Alice Munro
  
34. After This
by Alice Mcdermott
  
35. The Lay of the Land (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Richard Ford
  
36. Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
  
37. Please, Mr. Einstein
by Jean-Claude Carriere
  
38. The Ghost at the Table: A Novel (Shannon Ravenel Books)
by Suzanne Berne
  
39. On Agate Hill: A Novel
by Lee Smith
  
40. ALPANA POURS: ABOUT BEING A WOMAN, LOVING WINE & HAVING GREAT RELATIONSHIPS
by Alpana Singh
  
41. Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape  
42. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
by Kitty Burns Florey
  
43.
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 Against the Day
by Thomas Pynchon
  
44.
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 Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
by Jonathan Lear
  
45.
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 The Echo Maker: A Novel
by Richard Powers
  
46. Leaves of Grass : The "Death-Bed" Edition (Modern Library)
by Walt Whitman
  
47. Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
  
48. Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Sigrid Undset
  
49. The Zero
by Walter Jess
  
50. The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships  
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