Books Read 2006 Part 2

Explore the second part of our 2006 books read list, featuring a curated selection of must-read titles from that year. Discover reviews, recommendations, and literary gems.

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2001: a Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars …
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King Rat

by China Miéville

A London man is enrolled by the King of Rats to assassinate the Pied Piper of Hamelin who dethroned him. The man is Saul, whose …
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The Age of Wire and String

by Ben Marcus

"A rare, genius-struck achievement . . . filled with great beauties, high themes, enormous sorrows." Kirkus Reviews
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Go Down, Moses

by William Faulkner

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but …
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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's …
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Everyman

by Philip Roth

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of …
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The cement garden

 

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The Penelopiad

by Margaret Atwood

The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin presents a cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the …
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Amsterdam

by Ian McEwan

Two friends meet at the funeral of their former lover, who had many lovers and make a pact that affects the rest of their lives …
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Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) …
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I Spit on Your Graves

by Boris Vian

Fiction. "In the tradition of Karl May and Franz Kafka, Boris Vian imagines an American even more amazing that the land he has never visited. …
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The Sea

by John Banville

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has …
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Herland, The Yellow Wall-paper, and Selected Writings

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) penned this sardonic remark in her autobiography, encapsulating a lifetime of frustration with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in turn-of-the-century …
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Woyzeck

by Georg BĂĽchner

New translation of German classic play
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