Lists of Bests: linggeek's "NPR Holiday Books 2006" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/65261 "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 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:11:25 GMT en-us 0 50 89 50 0 365 Penguins http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2449782 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2449782"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/081094460X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Luc Fromental</div> Eddie's Kingdom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3453588 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3453588"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11PDDF7J6VL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by D.B. Johnson</div> Zuzu's Wishing Cake http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2529954 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2529954"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/061864640X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V52727952_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Linda Michelin</div> Flamingos on the Roof http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2815695 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2815695"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/118F4S15GAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Calef Brown</div> Mr. Maxwell's Mouse http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1381812 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1381812"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/155337486X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Asch</div> A Collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2939833 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2939833"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11x5nCQ3wVL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> Shlemiel Crooks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423586 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423586"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IZcMz6ACL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anna Olswanger</div> The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766007 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Setterfield</div> Magic Time: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2940456 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2940456"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11CEf2DU0FL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doug Marlette</div> Thirteen Moons: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781233 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781233"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01jXhLpoDpL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Frazier</div> Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4485267 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4485267"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41lD0Apx32L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William J. Mann</div> The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2818780 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2818780"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Y4VkqH0RL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gene Roberts</div> On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423666 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6423666"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rv8Eq-6XL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Dickerson</div> Humankind http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5934305 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5934305"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-MRnAVL0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yoshio Komastu</div> Life: The Platinum Anniversary Collection: 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/875035 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/875035"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933405171.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Editors of Life Magazine</div> Chairs: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2777069 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2777069"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810954842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Florence de Dampierre</div> Mexican Calendar Girls: Chicas de calendarios Mexicanos http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2351947 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2351947"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811853152.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Angela Villalba</div> Cancer Vixen: A True Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1154216 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1154216"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307263576.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marisa Acocella Marchetto</div> Chicken with Plums http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5838880 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5838880"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d4BARMT-L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marjane Satrapi</div> Puccini's Ghosts http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2854963 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2854963"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11L5ackSXLL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Morag Joss</div> The Night Gardener http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2814366 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2814366"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11zVXUsBAJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Pelecanos</div> Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105881 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1105881"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743279786.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith</div> Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3206659 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3206659"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11RA8tGGzQL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dorothea Lange</div> The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823724 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2823724"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11sJm-BgloL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Mendelsohn</div> The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3002442 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3002442"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01l%2BXJAzR4L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Rosenbaum</div> The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742526 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2742526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385513976.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Debby Applegate</div> A Godly Hero : The Life of William Jennings Bryan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1700079 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1700079"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000GCG9BG.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63226355_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Kazin</div> Intuition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2627747 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2627747"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385336101.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44910242_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Allegra Goodman</div> The Emperor's Children (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781628 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2781628"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11OmIxiBq9L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire Messud</div> Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664403 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1664403"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425937.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Eisenberg</div> A Disorder Peculiar to the Country: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482511 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2482511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060501413.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kalfus</div> Triangle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910841 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2910841"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01-rvFioEiL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katharine Weber</div> The View from Castle Rock: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025540 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1025540"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400042828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> After This http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2850115 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2850115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01CSeEQ5dWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Mcdermott</div> The Lay of the Land (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786449 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2786449"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01fnpWZt95L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Ford</div> Special Topics in Calamity Physics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143112120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46672918_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marisha Pessl</div> Please, Mr. Einstein http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1873526 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1873526"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0151014221.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V55313728_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Claude Carriere</div> The Ghost at the Table: A Novel (Shannon Ravenel Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5555417 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5555417"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412DKTZWTAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Suzanne Berne</div> On Agate Hill: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5095030 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5095030"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QTCDNwniL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lee Smith</div> ALPANA POURS: ABOUT BEING A WOMAN, LOVING WINE & HAVING GREAT RELATIONSHIPS http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2180075 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2180075"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0897335465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alpana Singh</div> Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/677501 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/677501"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595340246.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2926676 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2926676"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01cK1hEuRZL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kitty Burns Florey</div> Against the Day http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2765096 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3540130 <div id="position">44</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lear</div> The Echo Maker: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2588086 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Powers</div> Leaves of Grass : The "Death-Bed" Edition (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1276084 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1276084"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679600760.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walt Whitman</div> Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4758755 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4758755"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419KN8QPZSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lyanda Lynn Haupt</div> Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/116917 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/116917"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039164.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sigrid Undset</div> The Zero http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5357964 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5357964"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21q5rkZZjXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Jess</div> The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2182080 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2182080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590172035.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V50571662_.jpg" /></a></div>