Best Books of 2006

Customers' Favorites: Top 50 Books

Cesar's Way, Cesar Millan's training program for dog owners (and their pets), leads our list of the top 50 topselling books on Amazon.com during 2006. (Ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2006 are eligible.) See more editors' picks and customers' favorites in our Best of 2006 Store.


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Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems
Cesar Millan
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Harmony
April 4, 2006
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Fans of the National Geographic Channel's The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan will be grateful for Cesar's Way, an accessible guide to help new and current dog owners better understand the needs of their beloved pets. If you are not yet a fan, try to catch a couple of ... Read more

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The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 18, 2006
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Updated Edition: Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are ... Read more

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State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
Bob Woodward
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Simon & Schuster
September 30, 2006
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Starred Review. If there ever was a crystalline indictment of a president's wartime decisions, this is it. In the third volume exploring the political carnage and bureaucratic infighting prompted by the September 11 attacks, legendary investigative journalist Woodward (Bush at War, Plan of Attack) dissects the Bush administration's ... Read more

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Ultrametabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss
Mark Hyman
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Scribner
March 10, 2006
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Physician Hyman (Ultra-Prevention: The 6 Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life) delivers plenty of scientifically grounded information about weight loss myths, effective individualized strategies centered around the theme of stoking metabolism and a detailed six-week plancomplete with menus and recipesthat "will help you lose 11 to ... Read more

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Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum, No. 12)
Janet Evanovich
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St. Martin's Press
June 20, 2006
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The mixture of slapstick and gunplay that has put Evanovich's series about a sassy, less than competent New Jersey bounty hunter at the top of bestseller lists once again works its magic in Stephanie Plum's latest caper (after 2005's ... Read more

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
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Penguin Press HC, The
April 11, 2006
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[Signature]Reviewed by Pamela KaufmanPollan (The Botany of Desire) examines what he calls "our national eating disorder" (the Atkins craze, the precipitous rise in obesity) in this remarkably clearheaded book. It's a fascinating journey up and down the food chain, one that might change the way you read the label ... Read more

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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
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Penguin Press HC, The
July 25, 2006
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Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed ... Read more

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The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)
Lemony Snicket
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HarperCollins
October 13, 2006
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Picking up from the final pages of the Pentultimate Peril, this farewell installment to the ridiculously (and deservedly!) popular A Series of Unfortunate Events places our protagonists right where we last left them: on a large, wooden boat in the middle of the ocean, trapped with their nemesis Count ... Read more

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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron
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Knopf
August 1, 2006
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[Signature]Reviewed by Toni BentleyThe honest truth is that it's sad to be over sixty," concludes Nora Ephron in her sparkling new book about aging. With 15 essays in 160 pages, this collection is short, a thoughtful concession to pre- and post-menopausal women (who else is there?), like herself, who ... Read more

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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury
Kevin Phillips
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Viking Adult
March 21, 2006
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The title of political analyst Phillips's latest book may overstate his case (in the text, he prefers the term "theocratic direction"), but his analysis likely will strike chords among those troubled by our current political moment. Phillips (... Read more

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Godless: The Church of Liberalism
Ann Coulter
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Crown Forum
June 6, 2006
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Coulter prides herself on stirring things up in politics, and this audiobook will leave her fans cheering and the subjects of her scorn steaming. This sort of tome works well as an audiobook; it's like conservative talk radio honed to a sharp focus and pre... Read more

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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham
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Doubleday
October 10, 2006
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John Grisham tackles nonfiction for the first time with ... Read more

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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Al Gore
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Rodale Books
May 26, 2006
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The much-discussed and highly regarded 2006 book and film by Gore arrives on audio two years later. While the material and central focus on global warming is clearly the most important aspect of the book, Beau Bridges is the only truly captivating reader h... Read more

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Cell: A Novel
Stephen King
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Scribner
January 24, 2006
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Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. ... Read more

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The Fat Smash Diet: The Last Diet You'll Ever Need
Ian K. Smith
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St. Martin's Griffin
April 4, 2006
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Dr. Smith’s diet has been featured on VH1’s number-one rated show, Celebrity Fit Club, where Hollywood celebrities follow his customized diet plan and compete to lose weight. Now, with The Fat Smash Diet, everyone will have access to the revolutionary eating plan that leads to lifestyle changes and permanent ... Read more

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Suite Française
Irene Nemirovsky
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Knopf
April 11, 2006
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Starred Review. Celebrated in pre-WWII France for her bestselling fiction, the Jewish Russian-born Nmirovsky was shipped to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942, months after this long-lost masterwork was composed. Nmirovsky, a convert to Catholicism, began a planned five-novel cycle as Nazi forces overran northern France in 1940. This ... Read more

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The Alphabet Of Manliness
Maddox
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Citadel Press
May 30, 2006
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Lumberjacks, pirates, and Chuck Norris all agree that there is but one arbiter of manliness, and he has but one name: Maddox. The longtime proprietor of the absurdly popular website, The Best Page in the Universe, Maddox has thoughtfully collected his vast... Read more

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The Covenant with Black America
Tavis Smiley
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Third World Press
January 1, 2006
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This collection of essays is both a plea and a response to the self-assessed critical circumstances of black America today. Tavis Smiley provides the introduction, touching on the issues he explores as host and interviewer on public television and radio; C... Read more

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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
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