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Best Books from 2006
Berenbaum, Michael. The world must know : the history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Berg, Elizabeth. The handmaid and the carpenter
Davenport, Kiana. House of many gods : a novel
Kushner, Lawrence . Kabbalah : a love story
March, Stephen. Catbird : a novel
Mitgutsch, Anna. House of childhood
Poulin, Jacques. La traduction est une histoire d'amour
 
Books I Loved

Aboulela, Leila. Minaret
Aboulela, Leila. The translator
Baldwin, James. Another country
Baldwin, James. If Beale Street could talk
Banti, Anna. Artemisia
Baricco, Alessandro. Silk
Barolini, Helen. Love in the middle ages
Bartolomeo, Christina. Cupid and Diana
Berg, Elizabeth. Never change
Berg, Elizabeth. Open house
Berg, Elizabeth. Say when
Berg, Elizabeth. Until the real thing comes along
Berg, Elizabeth. The year of pleasures
Berger, John. To the wedding
Bergman, Deborah. River of Glass
Bloom, Amy. A blind man can see how much I love you : stories
Bloom, Amy. Love invents us
Blume, Judy. Forever
Cecala, Kathy. Secret vow
Chais, Pamela. Split Ends
Chandraratna, Bandula. Mirage
Ciresi, Rita. Sometimes I dream in Italian
Cirino, Linda D. Eva's story
Clarke, Arthur Charles. Childhood's end
Coelho, Paulo. By the River Piedra I sat down and wept
Coelho, Paulo. Eleven minutes
Coelho, Paulo. The fifth mountain
Coffman, Elaine. Someone like you
Cook, Claire. Must love dogs
Cook, Claire. Ready to fall
Cookson, Catherine. The bonny dawn
Cookson, Catherine. The dwelling place
Cookson, Catherine. The fifteen streets
Cookson, Catherine. Kate Hannigan
Cookson, Catherine. Kate Hannigan's girl
Coupland, Douglas. Generation X : tales for an accelerated culture
Czuchlewski, David. Empire of light
Da'ehu, B. D. With all my heart, with all my soul
Danticat, Edwidge. The dew breaker
Danticat, Edwidge. The farming of bones
Dibdin, Michael. Thanksgiving
Eagle, Kathleen. The last true cowboy
Eagle, Kathleen. Night falls like silk
Eagle, Kathleen. The night remembers
Eagle, Kathleen. You never can tell
Edghill, India. Wisdom's daughter : a novel of Solomon and Sheba
Ephron, Amy. A cup of tea : a novel of 1917
Ephron, Amy. White rose : una rosa blanca
Fowler, Connie May. Remembering Blue
Friedman, Carl. The gray lover : three stories
Gardner, Theodore Roosevelt. Give gravity a chance : a love story
Gertler, Stephanie. Jimmy's girl
Gibbons, Kaye. A virtuous woman
Gibbons, Reginald. Sweetbitter
Gifford, Barry. Wild at heart : the story of Sailor and Lula
Goldstein, Naama. The place will comfort you : stories
Gordimer, Nadine. The pickup
Graham, Janice. Firebird
Grayson, Emily. Waterloo Station
Green, Jane. Jemima J. : A Novel about Ugly Ducklings and Swans
Greene, Thomas Christopher. Mirror lake
Greenwood, T. Undressing the moon
Hackett, Joyce. Disturbance of the inner ear
Halter, Marek. Zipporah, wife of Moses
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Helmreich, Helaine G. The chimney tree
Hesse, Hermann. Demian : the story of Emil Sinclair's youth
Hesse, Hermann. Narziss and Goldmund
Hesse, Hermann. Rosshalde
Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha
Hijuelos, Oscar. A simple Habana melody : from when the world was good
Humphreys, Helen. The lost garden
Hwang, Caroline. In full bloom
Jaffe, Rona. After the reunion
Jaffe, Rona. Class reunion
Jin, Ha. Waiting
Joe, Yolanda. My fine lady
Kane, Andrew W. Rabbi, Rabbi
Kata, Elizabeth. Patch of blue
King, Ruchama. Seven blessings
Kingsbury, Karen. A thousand tomorrows
Klein, Norma. Give me one good reason
Klein, Norma. Sunshine
Knowles, John. A separate peace
Koren, Yeshayahu. Funeral at noon
Krauss, Nicole. The history of love
Langley, Lee. Distant music
Leahy, Syrell Rogovin. A book of Ruth
Leahy, Syrell Rogovin. Circle of love
Leahy, Syrell Rogovin. Family ties
Leahy, Syrell Rogovin. Family truths
Leahy, Syrell Rogovin. Only yesterday
Liu, Aimee. Cloud mountain
Lowell, Elizabeth. This time love
McCullers, Carson. The heart is a lonely hunter
Mapson, Jo-Ann. Hank & Chloe
Mark, Andrew. Falling bodies
Marquis, Christopher. A hole in the heart
Melnyk, Eugenie. My darling Elia
Miller, Walter M. A canticle for Leibowitz
Min, Anchee. Wild ginger
Minot, Susan. Evening
Minot, Susan. Folly
Mirvis, Tova. The outside world
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the wind
Mitgutsch, Anna. Lover, traitor : a Jerusalem story
Moggach, Deborah. Tulip fever
Monardo, Anna. The courtyard of dreams
Montero, Mayra. Messenger
Moore, Lorrie. Like life : stories
Moran, Thomas. Water, carry me
Morton, Brian. Starting out in the evening
Morton, Brian. A window across the river
Myerson, Julie. Something might happen
Oates, Joyce Carol. I lock my door upon myself
Oz, Amos. My Michael
Patterson, James. Sam's letters to Jennifer
Phillips, Caryl. A distant shore
Potok, Chaim. The chosen
Poulin, Jacques. Autumn rounds
Prager, Emily. Eve's tattoo
Ragen, Naomi. Sotah
Ragen, Naomi. The sacrifice of Tamar
Rambach, Peggy. Fighting gravity
Rand, Ayn. Atlas shrugged
Ratner, Rochelle. The lion's share
Ravel, Edeet. Ten thousand lovers
Redhill, Michael. Martin Sloane
Satran, Pamela Redmond. The man I should have married
Schine, Cathleen. The love letter
Schlink, Bernhard. Flights of love
Schlink, Bernhard. The reader
Segal, Erich. The class
Segal, Erich. Love story
Segal, Erich. Man, woman, and child
Segal, Erich. Oliver's story
Segal, Erich. Only love
Segal, Lore Groszmann. Her first American
Setton, Ruth Knafo. The road to Fez
Shan, Sa. The girl who played go
Shields, Carol. The republic of love
Shreve, Anita. Where or when
Smith, Deborah. A place to call home
Smith, Deborah. The stone flower garden
Strong, Jonathan. Secret words
Sussman, Ellen. On a night like this
Swados, Elizabeth. Flamboyánt
Swann, E. L. Night gardening
Templeton, Karen. Loose screws
Ternar, Yeshim. Rembrandt's model
Thayer, Nancy. Three women at the waters' edge
Updike, John. Brazil
Valadés, Anne James. In the shadow of the Amates
Valdés, Zoé. I gave you all I had
Vandever, Jennifer. The Brontë project : a novel of passion, desire, and good PR
Vreeland, Susan. Girl in hyacinth blue
Weber, Katharine. The music lesson
Wiesel, Elie. Night
Williams, Philip Lee. The song of Daniel
Wilson, Susan. Beauty
Wilson, Susan. Cameo Lake
Wilson, Susan. Hawke's Cove
Wright, Richard Bruce. Adultery
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose

Non-Fiction Books:

Author anonymous. Go ask Alice
Belushi, Judith Jacklin. Samurai widow
Confucius. The analects (Lun yü)
Dench, Judi. Scenes from my life
Breslin, Herbert H. The king and I : the uncensored tale of Luciano Pavarotti's rise to fame by his manager, friend, and sometime adversary
Doonan, Simon. Wacky chicks : life lessons from fearlessly inappropriate and fabulously eccentric women
Einstein, Albert. Albert Einstein Mileva Maric--the love letters
Fanon, Frantz. Studies in a dying colonialism
Gibran, Kahlil. The broken wings
Gibran, Kahlil. Mirrors of the soul
Gibran, Kahlil. The prophet
McCullers, Carson. The member of the wedding
Heymann, C. David. Liz : an intimate biography of Elizabeth Taylor Jacobson, Simon. Toward a meaningful life : the wisdom of the Rebbe Jungreis, Esther. The Jewish soul on fire
Kalinsky, George. Rabbis : the many faces of Judaism : 100 unexpected photographs of rabbis with essays in their own words
Lamb, Norman. A Hedge of roses : Jewish insights into marriage and married life
Radner, Gilda. It's always something
Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa
Noor, Queen. Leap of faith : memoirs of an unexpected life
Wolf, Laibl. Practical Kabbalah : a guide to Jewish wisdom for everyday life
Said, Edward W. Orientalism
Saint-Exupéry, Consuelo de. The tale of the rose : the passion that inspired The Little Prince
Shriver, Maria. And one more thing before you go
Tomasevic, Nebojsa. Gypsies of the world

 

French Books:

Abécassis, Eliette. Clandestin
Abécassis, Eliette. La répudiée
Bernheim, Emmanuèle. Sa femme
Bernheim, Emmanuèle. Vendredi soir
Biro, Adam. Quelqu'un d'ailleurs
Chedid, Andrée. Le message : roman
Courtemanche, Gil. Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali
Demers, Dominique. Là où la mer commence
Pinault, Danielle. Les amants de Judée
Sagan, Françoise. Dans un mois, dans un an
Shimazaki, Aki. Hotaru
Van Herk, Aritha. Judith et les cochons

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