May 30, 2006
Fiction
In the Shadows of the Sun by Alexander Parsons
Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen
Hello, I Must Be Going by Christie Hodgen
After Life: An Ethnographic Novel by Tobias Hecht
Mad Mouse by Chris Grabenstein
The Cottagers by Marshall N Klimasewiski
This is Not Chick Lit by Elizabeth Merrick
The Burning Time by Robin Morgan
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
Secondhand World by Katherine Min
The Seducer by Jan Kjaerstad
Road Story by Julienne Van Loon
The Bullet Trick by Louise Welsh
Long in the Tooth by David Turrill
Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau
Londonstani by Gautam Malkani
Lost Hearts in Italy by Andrea Lee
Strangers' Gate by Tom Casey
Conversations with Mr. Prain by Joan Taylor
Instant Love by Jami Attenberg
Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer
The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys by Dao Strom
Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
The O. Henry Prize Stories: The Best Stories of the Year edited by Laura Furman
The Birthdays by Heidi Pitlor
The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle
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May 27, 2006
Nonfiction
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperian Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier
Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas by Gillian Kendall
Women on the Civil War Battlefront by Richard H. Hall
Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 by James T. Campbell
Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life by Michael Dirda
The Affected Provincial's Companion: Volume 1 by Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsey
Patriots Act: Voices of Dissent and the Risk of Speaking Out by Bill Katovsky
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock by Andrew Beaujon
Skipping Towards Armageddon: The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire by Michael Standaert
Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart by Donald McRae
Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream by Jason Fagone
Mondo Cocktail: A Shaken and Stirred History by Christine Sismondo
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Nonfiction
Bodies of Work by Kathy Acker
Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing up Female by Willa Shalit
Salonica: City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers by Dan Rockmore
The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your 30s edited by Andrea N Richesin
The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time -- A True Story about Birdwatching by Sean Dooley
Gardening at Ginger: My Seven-Year Obsession with Designing and Planting a Personal Landscape by James Raimes
Is It Me or My Meds?: Living with Antidepressants by David A Karp
Hello I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity by Hal Niedzviecki
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache by Paula Kamen
Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy by Philipp Sarasin
The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet's Lost Paradise by Ian Baker
The Sandman Papers: An Exploration of the Sandman Mythology edited by Joe Sanders
Forensic Files: Five Famous Cases by Dr. Henry Lee
A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son by Clancy Sigal
The Truth About Caffeine by Marina Kushner
This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm by Scott Chaskey
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese by John A Glusman
The Great Starvation Experiment by Todd Tucker
Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe -- and Made it America's Game by Mark Lamster
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Fiction
When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton
The Theory of the Loser Class by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Lemon Hound by Sina Queyras
Framed by Tonino Benacquista
New Stories from the South edited by Allan Gurganus
You Are Not Here and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction edited by Keith Kachtick
The Rules of Perspective by Adam Thorpe
A Cabinet of Wonders by Renee Dodd
The Cleansing by George Rabasa
The Usual Mistakes by Erin Flanagan
Everfree by Nick Sagan
Lessons in Essence by Dana Standridge
Black Friday and Selected Stories by David Goodis
Let Me Finish by Roger Angell
Ordinary Genius by Thomas Fox Averill
The Girl I Wanted to Be by Sarah Grace McCandless
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
Apostraphe by Bill Kennedy
The Children of Men by PD James
The Destiny Mask by Martin Sketchley
The Crooked Letter: Books of the Cataclysm One by Sean Williams
Moonlight Hotel by Scott Anderson
The Catastrophist by Lawrence Douglas
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