Best Fiction I Read in 2006
Discover the best fiction books of 2006 with this curated list of top reads. Find your next favorite novel from standout titles and hidden gems published that year.
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The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
Chronicles the struggles and relationships of the wealthy Forsyte family in nineteenth and twentieth century England.
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Till We Have Faces
by Clive Staples Lewis
This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves Psyche. Much to Orual's frustration, Psyche is loved …
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The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country¹s …
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until …
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this …
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Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
by Rumer Godden
Lise Fanshawe, a prostitute and brothel manager in post-World War II Paris, finds God while serving time in prison for murder and joins an order …
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Sleeping with Schubert
by Bonnie Marson
When her body is surreptitiously possessed by the spirit of Franz Schubert, Brooklyn lawyer Liza Durbin struggles to retain her identity in the wake of …
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The Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald
When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for …
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Three Men in a Boat
by Jerome K. Jerome
"I had the general symptoms, the chief among them being a disinclination to work of any kind." So begin the hilarious misadventures of a merry, …
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Crampton Hodnet
by Barbara Pym
'A wonderfully accomplished farce beginning with the . . .unsuitabe romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in …