New Student Book Experience
Archive - 2006 Nominations
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Selection Finalists:
- A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
- Kindred - Octavia Butler
- Love in the Driest Season - Neely Tucker
- Mountains Beyond Mountains- Tracy Kidder
- Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Additional Nominations:
- A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
- A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
- Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- Angels in America - Tony Kushner
- Anthem - Ayn Rand
- Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
- Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake - Frank W. Abagnale
- Catfish and Mandala - Andrew X. Pham
- Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct - P.M. Forni
- Cunt: A Declaration of Independence - Inga Muscio
- Dead Man Walking - Helen Prejean
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grow - Margaret Sidney
- Gifted Hands - Dr. Benjamin Carson
- Grendel - John Gardnerq
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowlings
- Hawksong - Amelia Atwater- Rhodes
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
- Last of the Donkey Pilgrims - Kevin O'Hara
- Laughter - Robert Provine
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
- Love - Toni Morrison
- Lucky - Alice Sebold
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
- My Antonia - Willa Cather
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Of Woman Born - Adrienne Rich
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel G. Marquez
- Orphan's Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express - Christopher Corbett
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
- Our America : Life And Death On The South Side Of Chicago – Lealan Jones
- Pandora - Anne Rice
- Persepolis- Marjane Satrapi
- Prayers for the Dead - Faye Kellerman
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
- Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson
- She's Not There Anymore - Jennifer F. Boylan
- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
- Six Questions of Socrates - Christopher Phillips
- Slaughterhouse- Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- The Art Of Deception - Kevin Mitnick
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Corner - David Simon and Edward Burns
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The Day After Tomorrow - Allan Folsom
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Known World - Edward P. Jones
- The Last American Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
- The Power and The Glory - Graham Greene
- The Princess Bride - William Goldman
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
- The Road to Perdition - Max A. Collins
- The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Sunflower - Simon Wiesenthal
- The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
- The Testament - John Grisham
- The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
- Through the Lookin- Glass - Lewis Carroll
- Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
- Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
- Wealth and Democracy - Kevin Philips
- When Rabbit Howls - Truddi Chase
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
- Winterdance - Gary Paulsen
- Woman: An Intimate Geography - Natalie Angier
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde
- Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig