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Selections for 2006

This page contains the list of 2006 finalists, alphabetized by author, that are being considered by the Common Book Selection Committee. To read the summaries and reviews of these books, click on the linked titles. You will be taken to the Barnes & Noble website.

  1. A Home at the End of the World
    Michael Cunningham
  2. White Noise
    Don Delillo
  3. Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
    Waris Dirie
  4. The Tipping Point
    Malcolm Gladwell
  5. Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
    David Goodstein
  6. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda
    Philip Gourevitch
  7. The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
  8. Geisha, A Life
    Mineko Iwasaki
  9. Amazing Grace
    Jonathon Kozol
  10. The Namesake
    Jhumpa Lahiri
  11. Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
    David Lipsky
  12. Life of Pi
    Yann Martel
  13. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
    Malika Oufkir
  14. Last Days of Socrates
    Plato (Harold Tarrant, Editor; Hugh Tredennick, Translator)
  15. Genome
    Matt Ridley

  16. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Mary Roach
  17. Soul of a Chef
    Michael Ruhlman
  18. Walk On Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit
    Michael Ruhlman
  19. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
    Loung Ung