2006 Reading/Viewing List

Explore a curated 2006 reading and viewing list featuring the year's top books and must-see titles. Discover literary gems and notable works from 2006 in this comprehensive collection.

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In defense of elitism

 

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The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic …
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Moneyball

 

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

 

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Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

Memoir of three Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother in twentieth-century China.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

by Dai Sijie

New York Times Bestseller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic …
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Perfume

by Patrick Suskind

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest …
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The Day of the Jackal

by Frederick Forsyth

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service …
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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession …
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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth, which results in tragedy.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. …
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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and …
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Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard

This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters …