2006 in literature
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- See also: 2005 in literature, other events of 2006, 2007 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- June 26, 2006: J.K. Rowling reaveals that two characters will die in the seventh book of the Harry Potter series.
Books
- Demon Thief - Darren Shan (second in The Demonata series)
- The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Bobby Henderson
- The Archimedes Effect - Tom Clancy
- The Architecture of Happiness - Alain de Botton
- Bec - Darren Shan (fourth in The Demonata series)
- Behind the Mask - Thomas Harris (fourth in the Hannibal Lecter series)
- Betrayal - Aaron Allston
- Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
- Blood Fever - Charlie Higson (Young James Bond series)
- Bloodlines - Karen Traviss
- Blow the House Down - Robert Baer
- Book the Thirteenth - Lemony Snicket
- Cell - Stephen King
- The Cold Moon - Jeffery Deaver (seventh in the Lincoln Rhyme series)
- Company - Max Barry
- Dark Side of the Moon - Sherrilyn Kenyon (fifteen in the Dark-Hunter Series)
- Echo Park - Michael Connelly
- The Fires Fish - John Nickle
- Flyte - Angie Sage
- Freegalder (US) - Paul Stewart
- - Masamune Shirow
- Glenn Ford: A Life in Film - Peter Ford and Christopher Nickens
- The Grave Tattoo - Val McDermid
- How Would a Patriot Act? - Glenn Greenwald
- Inger! - James Sites
- The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
- Outbound Flight - Timothy Zahn
- Path of Destruction - Drew Karpyshyn
- Peter and the Shadow Thieves - Dave Barry
- Phantom - Terry Goodkind
- Pig Island - Mo Hayder
- Slawter - Darren Shan (third in The Demonata series)
- The Pregnant Widow - Martin Amis
- The Quillan Games - D.J. MacHale
- - Karen Traviss
- Teatro Grottesco - Thomas Ligotti
- ''Tempest - Troy Denning
- Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier
- Ultraviolet - Yvonne Navarro
- Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett (third in the Tiffany Aching series)
Deaths
- January 4 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet, 93
- January 16 - Jan Mark, British children's writer, 62
- January 30 - Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright, 55
- February 2 - Chris Doty, dramatist, 39
- February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist writer, 85
- February 8 - Michael Gilbert, British crime writer, 93
- February 11 - Peter Benchley, American novelist, 65
- February 17 - Sybille Bedford, novelist and non-fiction writer, 94
- February 21
- *Gennadiy Aygi, Chuvashian poet and translator, 71
- *Theodore Draper, historian, 93
- February 22 - Hilde Domin, German writer, 96
- March 27 - Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer
- March 30 - John McGahern, novelist, dramatist and short story writer, 72
- April 6 - Leslie Norris, Anglo-Welsh poet and author, 84
- April 13 - Dame Muriel Spark, novelist, 88
- May 9 - Jerzy Ficowski, poet, writer and translator, 81
- May 17 - Clare Boylan, novelist
- May 18 - Gilbert Sorrentino, novelist and poet, 77
- June 17 - James McClure, crime writer, 66
Awards
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