Below are several other notable books published in 2006 that we reviewed in previous issues of Boldtype.

FICTION
Severance by Robert Olen Butler
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
Ticknor by Sheila Heti
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan Kennedy
A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright

NONFICTION
Better For All the World by Harry Bruinius
Heat by Bill Buford
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Horsemen of the Esophagus by Jason Fagone
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz
Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky
Temptations of the West by Pankaj Mishra
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Molecular Gastronomy by Hervé This (Malcolm DeBevoise, trans.)

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