Best book lists

In addition to our favourite books of 2006, we're gathering together the picks of magazines and newspapers. The New York Times '10 best books' includes Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart, Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl, The looming tower, Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright and The omnivore's dilemma, a natural history of four meals by Michael Pollan. Check out what the Guardian, Times, New Statesman, Washington Post and others have to say on our fiction page.