Books of the decade: Your best books of 2006

[Dave Monroe]

Books of the decade: Your best books of 2006
Desai and Penny stole the awards, but O'Hagan's Be Near Me and
Jacobson's Kalooki Nights were my choice for 2006. What were your
favourites?

[...]

This was also the year when Thomas Pynchon returned to bookshops for
the first time in nine years, with the whopping Against the Day. Its
settings range across the world at the beginning of the century from
London to Göttingen, Venice, Iceland, the Balkans and the deserts of
Central Asia, and its 1,100-odd pages include an encyclopaedic range
of topics from mayonnaise to mathematics. I am going to read it, but
life hasn't yet seemed quite long enough.

[...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/07/books-of-the-decade-2006