Reading List 2006
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Fiction:
- Snow: Orhan Pamuk
- The Night in Question: Tobias Wolff
- Crossing to Safety: Wallace Stegner
- Everyman: Philip Roth
- The Sea: John Banville
- The Woman Lit by Fireflies: Jim Harrison
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime: Mark Huddon
- Kingdom of Shadows: Alan Furst
Non-Fiction:
- Lincoln: David Herbert Duncan
- Bacchus and Me: Jay McInerney
- Istanbul: Memories and the City: Orhan Pamuk
- 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople: Roger Crowley
- The Dressing Station: Jonathan Kaplan
- The Number: Lee Eisenberg
- Persian Fire:The First World Empire and the Battle for the West Tom Holland
- The Accidental Masterpiece: Michael Kimmelman
- Crossword: Marc Romano
- Just Looking: John Updike
- Unconventional Success: David Swenson
- Assassination Vacation: Sarah Vowell
Gardening/Nature:
- A Very Good Year: Mike Weiss
- Stone: Andy Goldsworthy
- The Planets: Dana Sobol
- Passages: Andy Goldsworthy
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth: O. Wilson
- The Plausibility of Life: Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart
- The Weather Makers: Tim Flannery
Poetry/Drama:
- North of Boston: Robert Frost
- Moment to Moment: David Budbill
- Mountain Interval: Robert Frost
- New Hampshire: Robert Frost
- West Running Brook: Robert Frost
- While We’ve Still Got Feet: David Budbill
- The Vigil: CK Williams
- A Further Range: Robert Frost
Mystery/Detective:
- S is for Silence: Sue Grafton
- The Lincoln Lawyer: Michael Connelly
- Alban’s Fire: Archer Mayor
- Dark Harbor: Stuart Wood
- Dead Watch: John Sandford
- Sea Change: Robert Parker
- Hundred Dollar Baby: Robert Parker
