San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFiction2006

Given by San Francisco Chronicle

Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
64 Works 83,703 Books 2,764 Reviews ½ 3.7
Categories:
All, Biography (6), Essay/Criticism (19), Fiction (598), Fiction/Poetry (108), Historical Fiction (3), History (15), Journalism/nonfiction (9), Memoir (16), Non-fiction (2), Nonficion (5), Nonfiction (539), Science Fiction (1), Short stories (19), No Category (151)
Years:
All, 2023 (8), 2022 (12), 2021 (7), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (58), 2015 (66), 2014 (60), 2011 (49), 2010 (50), 2009 (50), 2008 (49), 2007 (56), 2006 (64), 2005 (58), 2004 (1)
WorkYear
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
2006
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2006
The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
2006
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
2006
Cellophane by Marie Arana
2006
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
2006
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
2006
Frost by Thomas Bernhard
2006
Last Evenings On Earth by Roberto Bolaño
2006
The Mystery Guest: An Account by Grégoire Bouillier
2006
Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
2006
Brothers by Da Chen
2006
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories by Charles D'Ambrosio
2006
The Thin Place by Kathryn Davis
2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2006
The Driftless Area by Tom Drury
2006
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
2006
What Is the What by Dave Eggers
2006
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
2006
The Contract with God Trilogy by Will Eisner
2006
My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up by Stephen Elliott
2006
Brief Encounters With Che Guevara: Stories by Ben Fountain
2006
The Eagle's Throne by Carlos Fuentes
2006
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
2006
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
2006
Intuition by Allegra Goodman
2006
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
2006
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
2006
Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henríquez
2006
Grief by Andrew Holleran
2006
The World to Come by Dara Horn
2006
Forgetfulness by Ward Just
2006
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
2006
The Willow Field by William Kittredge
2006
Giraffe by J. M. Ledgard
2006
Matters of Life and Death by Bernard MacLaverty
2006
Gallatin Canyon: Stories by Thomas McGuane
2006
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
2006
A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy
2006
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
2006
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
2006
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
2006
Awake in the Dark: Stories by Shira Nayman
2006
The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
2006
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
2006
The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien
2006
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
2006
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
2006
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
2006
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
2006
Mohr: A Novel by Frederick Reuss
2006
Blue Nude: A Novel by Elizabeth Rosner
2006
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories by Karen Russell
2006
There Will Never Be Another You by Carolyn See
2006
The Ruins of California by Martha Sherrill
2006
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
2006
The Accidental by Ali Smith
2006
Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea
2006
Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2006
The Return of the Player by Michael Tolkin
2006
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić
2006
Memorial: A Novel by Bruce Wagner
2006
A Season of Fire & Ice by Lloyd Zimpel
2006

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