Editors' Picks: Stewart Times TwoOne of the great pleasures of our year of reading was finding a new voice from Scotland, by way of Afghanistan and Iraq: Rory Stewart. First came The Places in Between, Stewart's calm and observant account of his intrepid (read: crazy) walk across Afghanistan, which leads our Memoirs list. Just a few months later followed The Prince of the Marshes, recounting his year as a provincial administrator in occupied Iraq. The only others with two books in our overall Top 50? Stephen King and pop-up maestro Matthew Reinhart. |
Editors' Picks: Top 50 Books of 2006In a year of superb fiction debuts and eye-opening accounts of the Iraq War, climate change, and the way we eat, the top choice on our list of the 50 best books of 2006 was written decades before, in 1942. The story of the writing and the rediscovery of Irène Némirovsky's novel Suite Française is incredible, but no more so than the novel itself, a clear-eyed and stunningly compassionate account of the Nazi occupation of France (an occupation that would soon take its author's life). Following close behind Némirovsky on the list of our favorites of the year: ›See all Top 50 Editors' Picks Customers' Favorites: Top 50 Bestsellers of 2006On the Chinese calendar, this was the Year of the Dog, and it was on Amazon.com too. The most popular new book among our customers in 2006 was Cesar Millan's Cesar's Way, a guide from the hugely popular "Dog Whisperer" that emphasizes that dog owners need training as much as their dogs. (And the bestselling book overall? 2005's bad-dog charmer, Marley & Me.) Our list of the year's bestsellers through October also includes a half-dozen critiques of the Bush Administration, the grim finale to an unfortunate series, books by once and future presidential candidates, a report on the state of black America, and these runners-up, which follow Cesar's Way at the top of the list: ›See all Top 50 Customers' Favorites |
Browse Customers' FavoritesCustomers' Favorites: Newsmaking BooksGive it a few more weeks, and Bob Woodward's State of Denial would likely have passed Cesar's Way as our topselling book of 2006. But Woodward's latest is just one of the current events blockbusters that broke inside news and topped bestseller lists this year, including his Washington Post colleague Tom Ricks's Fiasco, Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor's Cobra II, Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, and Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine. Customers' Favorites: Women and MenTwo books in our customers' top 20 tell the timeless tale of the sexes in ways that could not be more different. Hair tints and skin creams? There's screenwriter Nora Ephron's wryly funny I Feel Bad About My Neck. Wondering who would win a fight between a pirate and a lumberjack? Try the deeply scatological The Alphabet of Manliness, from the blogger Maddox. Our only question: did any customer buy both? Best Books of the AughtsFeeling nostalgic? Dig deep in our archives to see our choices and yours for the best books of the last six years: |
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