2006 Reader Awards: Best Book

March 1, 2006

Thanks to this baby I now have more money than God.

Receiving nearly five times as many votes as its nearest competitor, J.K. Rowling's sixth installment of the Harry Potter series wins the landslide award as well as the Reader Award for Best Book released in 2005. After that, results bunch up a bit, with Nick Hornby's "A Long Way Down" taking second by just 4%, and so it goes down the rest of the list, with each remaining entry a few paces behind the one in front of it.

Best Book
Position Author Title
1 J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2 Nick HornbyA Long Way Down
3 David McCullough1776
4 Neil GaimanAnansi Boys
5 Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close
6 Al FrankenThe Truth (With Jokes)
7 Bill MaherNew Rules
8 Elizabeth KostovaThe Historian
9 Malcolm GladwellBlink
10 Bernard Goldberg100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
11 Anne RiceChrist The Lord
12 Gene WilderKiss Me Like a Stranger
13 George R.R. MartinA Feast For Crows
14 Lemony SnicketThe Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12)
15 Bruce CampbellMake Love the Bruce Campbell Way





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