January Magazine’s writers and editors reviewed thousands of books in 2006 and came up with five "best of" lists--for fiction, crime fiction, art & culture, non-fiction, and books for children.Click here to read them all.
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- Tom Wolfe's ghost in the machine
- January Magazine’s best books of 2006
- The worst pun in a book title
- Pg. 69: "Satan: A Biography"
- A top ten list of crime fiction
- Five top books on space
- The best book cover of 2006?
- Pg. 69: "You Kill Me"
- Chandler’s “Ten Commandments for the Detective Novel”
- The Best Book Covers of 2006
- Twice-told tales
- Ed Gorman's 2006 book list
- The sadness of George III
- Pg. 69: "The Last Spymaster"
- Rocky Mountain News favorite books of 2006
- Pg. 69: "The Phony Marine"
- The Village Voice's top 25 of 2006
- "New Yorker" writers' bedside reading
- Pg. 69: "James Tiptree, Jr."
- Essential books for understanding Christianity
- What is Carl Hiaasen reading?
- The page 69 test: 100 authors...and counting
- Pg. 69: "Blind Submission"
- Susan Cheever's favorite books
- Pg. 69: "Indecent"
- Political books
- Top 10 US out of print books of 2006
- Pg. 69: "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo"
- The most overrated books of 2006?
- Pg. 69: "The White Man's Burden"
- Guy Browning's top 10 Christmas books
- Pg. 69: "Falling Through the Earth"
- The sharpest satire on Hollywood
- Pg. 69: "Pigeons"
- "A Confederacy of Dunces," a film?
- Pg. 69: "A Christmas Secret"
- Zoë Heller's favorite books
- Women in the news
- How Richard Dawkins writes
- Pg. 69: "Faculty Towers"
- What is Martha Stewart reading?
- English books in America
- Pg. 69: "Greywalker"
- "The Blonde," the movie
- Pg. 69: "Choices Under Fire"
- Anthony Lane on "Hannibal Rising"
- Pg. 69: "The Camel Bookmobile"
- Pg. 69: "Gracefully Insane"
- Salon's 2006 best fiction picks
- Pg. 69: "Redemption"
- Rediscovering Homer
- The true story of the Blackout Ripper
- Pg. 69: "There Goes My Everything"
- A literary guide to The Netherlands
- Pg. 69: "Venus in Exile"
- Salon's 2006 book awards
- "Hannibal Rising"
- Pg. 69: "Democracy’s Privileged Few"
- Pg. 69: "Pale Immortal"
- Pg. 69: "The Blind Side"
- The best spy stories
- Pg. 69: "The First Total War"
- Six top literary killers
- Oral histories
- Pg. 69: "The Lightning Rule"
- Slate's best books of 2006
- Pg. 69: "Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice"
- Turn over a new leaf every day of 2007
- Pg. 69: "Lights Out"
- "One Good Turn"
- Pg. 69: "America's Kingdom"
- German books in English
- Pg. 69: "My Girlfriend Comes To The City And Beats...
- Pg. 69: "The Power of Movies"
- Structural racism in "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
- Pg. 69: "Big City, Bad Blood"
- Book forum: "America's Kingdom"
- Pg. 69: "The Last of Her Kind"
- Pg. 69: "How Milton Works"
- An "alternate history" of the Civil War
- Pg. 69: "The Resistance to Poetry"
- A.L. Kennedy's bad Booker beat
- Index: structural racism in fiction
- Pg. 69: "Season of Betrayal"
- "Shakespeare's Philosophy"
- Pg. 69: "The Good Good Pig"
- Jonathan Yardley's 2006 book picks
- Pg. 69: "The House Beautiful"
- Five funny American classics
- Alex Beam tries out the page 69 test
- Roz Chast's reading list
- Pg. 69: "Marriage, A History"
- Comic novels
- Rilke's last poem
- TLS: books of the year
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