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This year’s survey asked readers to name the three works of fiction from 2006 they considered to be the finest.  Here are the top ten (the rest are listed here) for easy reference:

1. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
2. ___________, _________________ (left out because it the author was associated with the magazine that did the survey)
3. Chris Adrian, The Children’s Hospital
4. Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
5. David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
6. Richard Powers, The Echo Maker
7. Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan
8. Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
9. T. Cooper, Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
10. Daniel Handler, Adverbs

I haven’t heard of any of them.  I guess I’ll be looking them up soon.  Have you? Or maybe you’d like to recommend something a good book you’ve read.