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Everything about 2006 In Literature totally explainedThe year 2006 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Books
Literature
Adventure and thriller
The Archimedes Effect (February 7) - Tom Clancy
Children's and young adult
Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (September 12) - Eoin Colfer (fifth in the Artemis Fowl series)
The Book Thief (March 14) - Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
Black Swan Green (April 11) - David Mitchell
Blood Fever (January 1) - Charlie Higson (second in the Young James Bond series)
The End (October 13) - Lemony Snicket (13th in A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Escape from the Carnivale: a Never Land Book (September 1) - Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Freeglader (US) (February 28) - Paul Stewart (eighth in The Edge Chronicles) fantasy
Peter and the Shadow Thieves (July 15) - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Ptolemy's Gate - Jonathan Stroud
The Quillan Games (May 16) - D. J. MacHale
The Riddle of the Poisoned Monk (September 1) - Sarah Matthias
Wintersmith (October 1) - Terry Pratchett (third in the Tiffany Aching series)
Sir Thursday (March 1) - Garth Nix (fourth in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
Fantasy
Bec (October 2) - Darren Shan (fourth in The Demonata series)
The Blade Itself (May 4) - Joe Abercrombie (first in The First Law series)
The Blood Knight (July 11) - Gregory Keyes (third in The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone series)
The Bonehunters (March 1) - Steven Erikson (sixth in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
Brother Odd (November 28) - Dean Koontz (third in the Odd Thomas series)
The Chalice of Life (December 31) - Karen Anne Webb (first in the Adventurers of the Carotian Union series
Dark Side of the Moon (May 30) - Sherrilyn Kenyon (15th in the Dark-Hunter Series)
Demon Thief (June 7) - Darren Shan (second in The Demonata series)
Flyte (March 1) - Angie Sage (second in the Septimus Heap series)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (June 27) - Scott Lynch (first in the Gentleman Bastards series)
Mistral's Kiss (December 12) - Laurell K. Hamilton (fifth in the Merry Gentry series)
Phantom (July 18) - Terry Goodkind (10th in the Sword of Truth series)
Piratica II - Tanith Lee (second in The Piratica Series)
School's Out — Forever (May 23) - James Patterson (second in the Maximum Ride series)
(August 8) - Jeff VanderMeer
Slawter (November 1) - Darren Shan (third in The Demonata series)
The Thousandfold Thought (January 20) - R. Scott Bakker (third in the Prince of Nothing trilogy)
Historical fiction
Knights of the Black and White (August 8) - Jack Whyte (first in the Templar Trilogy)
The Lords of the North - Bernard Cornwell
Mission Accomplished (Novel) (November 6) - Patrick S. Johnston
The Night Watch (March 23) - Sarah Waters
Racists - Kunal Basu
Sharpe's Fury - Bernard Cornwell
Soldier of Sidon (October 31) - Gene Wolfe (third book in the Soldier series)
Stet (January 7) - James Chapman
Temeraire (January 7) - Naomi Novik
Thirteen Moons (October 3) - Charles Frazier
The Vengeance of Rome (January 5) - Michael Moorcock (fourth in the Pyat Quartet)
Horror
Beach Road (May 1) - James Patterson & Peter de Jonge
Book of Legion (October 31) - Victor Heck
Cell (January 24) - Stephen King
A Darkness Inbred (January 20) - Victor Heck
Downward Spiral (November 27) - Victor Heck
Lisey's Story (October 24) - Stephen King
Teatro Grottesco - Thomas Ligotti
Evermore - edited by James Robert Smith and Stephen Mark Rainey
Humor, satire
Company (January 17) - Max Barry
Chart Throb - Ben Elton
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (March 28) - Bobby Henderson
The Alphabet of Manliness (June) - Maddox
Nature Girl (November 14) - Carl Hiaasen
Mystery, suspense, thriller, espionage and crime fiction
The Act of Roger Murgatroyd - Gilbert Adair
At Risk (May 23) - Patricia Cornwell (first in the At Risk series)
Blow the House Down a novel, (May 30) - Robert Baer
Book of the Dead (October 24) - Patricia Cornwell (15th in the Kay Scarpetta series)
The Cold Moon (May 30) - Jeffery Deaver (seventh in the Lincoln Rhyme series)
Cross (November 14) - James Patterson (12th in the Alex Cross series)
The Eagle (December 26) - Jack Whyte (ninth in the Camulod Chronicles series)
Echo Park (October 9) - Michael Connelly
The 5th Horseman (February 13) - James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
The Grave Tattoo (February 6) - Val McDermid
Hannibal Rising (December 5) - Thomas Harris (fourth in the Hannibal Lecter series)
The Husband (May 30) - Dean Koontz
Judge & Jury (July 31) - James Patterson
Kamikaze (November 7) - Michael Slade
More Twisted - (December 16) - Jeffery Deaver
Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark
Mask Market - Andrew Vachss
The Shape Shifter (November 1) - Tony Hillerman (12th in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee series)
- Samantha Weinberg
Treasure of Khan (December 5) - Clive Cussler
The Water Wolf (October 3) - Thomas Sullivan
Wild Fire (novel) (November 6) - Nelson DeMille
Romance
Darkfever (October 31) - Karen Marie Moning
Dear John (October 30) - Nicholas Sparks
H.R.H. (October 31) - Danielle Steel
Science fiction
Betrayal (May 30) - Aaron Allston (first in the Legacy of the Force series)
Blindsight (October 3) - Peter Watts
Bloodlines (August 29) - Karen Traviss (second in the Legacy of the Force series)
Born in Death (November 7) - J. D. Robb (23rd in the In Death series)
From Black Rooms (October 31) - Stephen Woodworth (fourth in the Violet series), alternate history crime novel
- Masamune Shirow
Glasshouse (June 27) - Charles Stross
Infoquake (July 5) - David Louis Edelman (first in the Jump 225 trilogy)
Outbound Flight (January 31) - Timothy Zahn
: a Novel of the New Republic (September 26) - Drew Karpyshyn
The Plot to Save Socrates (February 6) - Paul Levinson
The Road (September 26) - Cormac McCarthy
- Karen Traviss (second in the series)
Tempest - Troy Denning
Three Days to Never (August 1) - Tim Powers
Ultraviolet (March 1) - Yvonne Navarro
New drama
Salvatore Antonio - In Gabriel's Kitchen
Howard Brenton - In Extremis
Richard Greenberg - Three Days of Rain
David Lindsay-Abaire - Rabbit Hole
Martin McDonagh - The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Poetry
See 2006 in poetry
Non-fiction
Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme - My Life in France
Deborah Davis - Party of the Century
Alain de Botton - The Architecture of Happiness
Wayne Federman (with Terrill and Maravich) - MARAVICH: The Definitive biography of Pistol Pete Maravich.
Peter Ford and Christopher Nickens -Glenn Ford: A Life in Film
Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth
Glenn Greenwald - How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
John Grisham - The Innocent Man
Hywel Williams - Days That Changed the World: the 50 Defining Events of World History
John McQuaid & Mark Schleifstein -Path of Destruction: the Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms
Larry Miller -
Max and Monique Nemni -
Richard Sennett - The Culture of the New Capitalism
James Sites - Inger!
Short stories
Out of 40 stories published in both of these two annual anthologies, stories from The New Yorker are represented eight times, four times, Tin House and One Story three times each, and all of these magazines had stories in both collections.
Best American Short Stories 2006
Of 20 stories, four came from The New Yorker, three from and two each from The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House and One Story.
O. Henry Prize stories
Of this year's 20 stories, four came from The New Yorker, four from Epoch, and two each from Harper's Magazine, One Story and The Georgia Review
* Full title: "Letters in the Snow—for kind strangers and unborn children—for the ones lost and most beloved"
** "Juror favorites"
Deaths
January 4 - Irving Layton, age 93, Canadian poet
January 16 - Jan Mark, 62, British children's writer
January 30 - Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright
February 2 - Chris Doty, 39, dramatist
February 4 - Betty Friedan, 85, feminist writer
February 8 - Michael Gilbert, 93, British crime writer
February 11 - Peter Benchley, 65, American novelist
February 17 - Sybille Bedford, 94, novelist and non-fiction wirter
February 20 - Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish writer, journalist and traveller
February 21 - Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Chuvashian poet and translator
February 21 - Theodore Draper, 93, historian
February 22 - Hilde Domin, 96, German writer
February 24 - Octavia E. Butler, 59, American science fiction writer
February 25 - Margaret Gibson, 57, Canadian novelist and short story writer
March 27 - Stanisław Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer
March 30 - John McGahern, 73, novelist, dramatist and short story writer
April 6 - Leslie Norris, age 84, Anglo-Welsh poet and author
April 13 - Muriel Spark, 88, novelist
April 25 - Jane Jacobs, 89, urban planning critic and activist
May 9 - Jerzy Ficowski, 81, poet, writer and translator
May 17 - Clare Boylan, 58, Irish novelist
May 18 - Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, novelist and poet
June 17 - James McClure, age 66, crime writer
June 17 - Mickey Spillane, 88, crime writer
June 28 - Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist
June 28 - David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist
August 21 - S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli novelist
August 30 - Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian novelist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature
September 1 - György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator
September 4 - Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author
September 25 - John M. Ford, 49, American science fiction writer and poet
November 1 - William Styron, age 81, American novelist
November 4 - Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer
November 9 - Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist and critic
November 10 - Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author
November 13 - G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher
November 15 - George G. Blackburn MC,90, Canadian author of Guns of Normandy
November 23 - Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine
November 23 - Richard Clements, 78, British journalist
November 23 - Richard Leopold, 94, American historian
November 24 - William Diehl, 81, American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine)
November 24 - Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, writer, and publisher
November 24 - Mostafa Mesbahzadeh, 98, exiled Iranian newspaper publisher
November 24 - George W. S. Trow, 63, American writer and media critic
November 27 - Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, Negro author (What You Owe Me)
Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature: Orhan Pamuk
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Cormac McCarthy, The Road
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Byron Rogers, The Man Who Went into the West: The life of R.S. Thomas
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Belinda Castles, The River Baptists
Compton Crook Award: Maria Snyder, Poison Study
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Urban Myths: 210 Poems
Eric Gregory Award: Fiona Benson, Retta Bowen, Frances Leviston, Jonathan Morley, Eoghan Walls
2006 Governor General's Awards: see article
Griffin Poetry Prize: Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall and Kamau Brathwaite, Born to Slow Horses
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jaya Savige, Latecomers
Man Booker Prize: Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss.
Miles Franklin Award: Roger McDonald, The Ballad of Desmond Kale
Premio Nadal: Eduardo Lago, Llámame Brooklyn
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Fleur Adcock
Scotiabank Giller Prize: Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Wallace Stevens Award: Michael Palmer
Whiting Writers' Awards:
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