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Metacritic's complete Best of 2006 coverage: High Scores | Awards | Critic Top Ten Lists

2006 Man Booker Prize Nominees

The full longlist is displayed below. Shortlisted titles are denoted with an asterisk. The winner is denoted with two asterisks.

Theft by Peter Carey
** The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai
Gathering The Water by Robert Edric
Get A Life by Nadine Gordimer
* The Secret River by Kate Grenville
* Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Seven Lies by James Lasdun
The Other Side Of The Bridge by Mary Lawson
So Many Ways To Begin by Jon McGregor
* In The Country Of Men by Hisham Matar
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
The Testament Of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
* Mother’s Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
The Ruby In Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
* The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

More Information: themanbookerprize.com

2006 National Book Awards

Finalists are listed below. Winners are denoted with an asterisk.

FICTION
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
A Disorder Peculiar To The Country by Ken Kalfus
* The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Eat The Document by Dana Spiotta
The Zero by Jess Walter

NONFICTION
At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch
Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
* The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

POETRY
Averno by Louise Gluck
Chromatic by H.L. Hix
Angle Of Yaw by Ben Lerner
* Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey
Capacity by James McMichael

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
* The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing, Traitor To The Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
Keturah And Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Rules Of Survival by Nancy Werlin
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

More Information: nationalbook.org

2006 Nobel Prize for Literature

Orhan Pamuk, novelist, Turkey

More Information: nobelprize.org

2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards

FICTION
The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai

GENERAL NONFICTION
Rough Crossings by Simon Schama

BIOGRAPHY
James Tiptree, Jr. by Julie Phillips

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn

CRITICISM
Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler

POETRY
Tom Thomson in Purgatory by Troy Jollimore

More Information: bookcritics.org

2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner is marked with an asterisk.

Finalists
The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D’Ambrosio
Twilight Of The Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
* Everyman by Philip Roth

More Information: penfaulkner.org

2007 Pulitzer Prize

Fiction
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Nonfiction
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Biography
The Most Famous Man In America by Debby Applegate

History
The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

Poetry
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

More Information: pulitzer.org