The Sunday Times 100 best holdiay reads - 2006
Submitted by stubee on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 07:18
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- Fiction
- Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
- Cormac McCarthy – The Road
- Clare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare
- Joanne Harris – The Lollipop Shoes
- Alice McDermott – After This
- Sarah Waters – The Night Watch
- Philip Roth – Everyman
- Joshua Ferris – Then We Came To the End
- Margaret Forster – Keeping the World Away
- Xiaolu Guo – A Concise Chinese – English Dictionary for Lovers
- Arturo Perez-Reverte – The Sun over Breda
- Paul Today – Salmon Fishing in Yemen
- Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Sylvia Brownrigg – The Delivery Room
- Bernard MacLaverty – Matters Of Life & Death
- Don DeLillo – Falling Man
- Naomi Alderman – Disobedience
- Edward St Aubyn – Mother’s Milk
- Elinor Lipman – My Latest Grievance
- Robert Harris – Imperium
- Marina Lewycka – Two Caravans
- William Boyd – Restless
- Daniel Kehlmann – Measuring the World
- Charlotte Mendleson – When We Were Bad
- Jane Harris – The Observations
- Matthew Kneale – When We Were Romans
- Kiran Desai – The Inheritance Loss
- David Mitchell – Black Swan Green
- Philippa Gregory – The Boleyn Inheritance
- John Preston – The Dig
- David Pearce – The Damned Utd
- Alaa Al Aswany – The Yacoubian Building
- Vanora Bennett – Portrait of an Unknown Woman
- Stef Penny – The Tenderness of wolves
- Joseph O’Connor – Redemption Falls
- CJ Sampson – Sovereign
- Carl Hiaasen – Nature Girl
- Jason Goodwin – The Jansen Tree
- Boris Akunin – Special Assignments
- Andrew Martin – The Lost Luggage Porter
- Thomas Harris – Hannibal Rising
- Donna Leon – Through a Glass Darkly
- Andrea Camilleri – The Secret of the Night
- Ian McEwan – On Chesil Beach
- Anne Tyler – Digging To America
- Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of the Yellow Sun
- Frank Tallis – Vienna Blood
- Fred Vargas – Wash This Blood Clean
- Alexander McCall Smith – The Good Husband
- Non Fiction
- Biography
- Steven Bach – Leni
- Neal Gabler - Walt Disney: The Biography
- Tim Jeal – Stanley
- Patrick Marnham – Wild Mary: A Life of Mary Wesley
- Donald Spoto – Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates
- Ben Macintyre – Agent Zigzag
- Terence Blacker – You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not end up Like This
- William Dalrymple – The Last Mughai
- William Hague – William Wilberforce
- Mick Brown – Tearing down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and fall of Phil Spector
- Walter Isaacson – Einstein
- Lee Server – Ava Gardner
- Martin Gayford – The Yellow House: Van Gough, Gaugin and Nie Turbulent Weeks in Arles
- History
- David Kynaston – Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
- James Walvin – The Trader, the Owner, the Slave
- Tim Blanning – The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
- Patrick Bishop – Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
- Antony Beevor – The Battle of Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- Jerry White – London in the Nineteenth Century
- Memoir
- John Cornwell – Seminary Boy
- Miranda Seymour – In My Father’s House
- Peter Godwin – When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- Sarah Bradford – Diana
- Tina Brown – The Diana Chronicles
- Lauren St John – Rainbow’s End
- Piers Morgan – Don’t You Know Who I Am?
- Paul Rusesabagina – An Ordinary Man
- Deborah Rodriguez – The Kabul Beauty School
- Bill Bryson – The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
- Keith Allen – Grow Up
- Current Affairs
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran – Imperial Life in the Emerald City
- Richard Dawkins – The God Delusion
- Christopher Hitchens – God Is Not Great: The Case against Religion
- Nick Cohen – Who’s left? How liberals lost Their Way
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Infidel: My Life
- James Lovelock – The Revenge of Gaia
- Rory Stewart – Occupational Hazards
- General
- Rory MacLean – Magic Bus
- Ryszard Kapuscinski – Travels with Herodotus
- Harry Pearson – Achtung Schweinehund!
- Craig Brown – The Tony Years
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney – The Cloudspotter’s Guide
- Michael Simkins – Faffty Batter
- Andrew Keen – The Cult of the Amateur
- Atul Ganwande – Better
- Rupert Everett – Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
- Harry Thompson – Penguins Stopped Play
- Kenneth Tynan – Theatre Writings/Profiles
This is a list of 100 books listed by the Sunday Times as the books of the summer (2006)