2006 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
Adult Fiction Winner
- The Historian: A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown)
Adult Fiction Honor Books
- Kafka on the Shore: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
- The March: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow (Random House)
- Saturday: A Novel by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See (Random House)
Adult Nonfiction Winner
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow)
Adult Nonfiction Honor Books
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Scribner/S&S)
- The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr (Random House)
- Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
- The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion)
Children's Literature Winner
- Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Chicken House/Scholastic)
Children's Literature Honor Books
- A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic)
- Eldest: Inheritance, Book 2 by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Children's Illustrated Winner
- Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth (Scholastic Press)
Children's Illustrated Honor Books
- Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin; illustrated by Harry Bliss (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins)
- Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt Children's Books)
- Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Children)
- Seen Art? By Jon Scieszka; illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking Juvenile/Penguin USA)