What were the best books of 2006?
LIBERATION MOVEMENTS, by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur). Volume four in a shrewdly understated series which tells the post World War II political history of an unnamed Eastern European country through a cast of military investigators.
RED SKY LAMENT, by Edward Wright (Orion). Like previous novelists who wrestled with Los Angeles before and after WWII (John Fante of Ask the Dust and Horace McCoy of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? come to mind), Wright knows how to capture the smell of something burning in the hot fields and streets of that 1940s city and turn it into the kind of art that both stirs up old memories and pierces the soul.
A CORPSE IN THE KORYO, by James Church (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur) Another alien world brought to life by a former intelligence agent who seems to know North Korea down to its skin.
NBCC member Dick Adler
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posted by Critical Mass 4:41:00 AM
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If you're looking for great baseball books, one up-and-coming writer -- Charles Euchner -- had two books out in 2006. "Little League, Big Dreams" looks at the changing world of youth sports. "The Last Nine Innings" explores the inside game of baseball at the big-league levcel; (he uses a gripping account of a 2001 Workld Series game as his narrative spine). Frank Defiord calls that book "the last word on the inside game of baseball."
BZ in Chicago
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