TIME Magazine Best Fiction Books of 2006

The TIME Magazine Best Fiction Books of 2006 are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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TIME Magazine Best Fiction Books of 2006

The Road by Cormac McCarthy Winner! 3962 reviews (2006) (256p) (PP) (NBCCA) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=1 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford 130 reviews (2006) (496p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=6 UnqBooks=4 PPNom=2 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=2 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart 130 reviews (2006) (352p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=0 UnqBooks=0 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 409 reviews (2006) (304p) (TIME) (LATimes) (ALA) Author: TotNom=3 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=0 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

What Is the What by Dave Eggers 418 reviews (2006) (386p) (NBCCA) (TIME) (Amazon) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page