Believers

The Believer, the literary magazine edited by Vendela Vida, recently conducted a reader and writer survey to throw up the best books of 2006. Here are the results. The Road takes the No. 1 spot, unsurprisingly. (Oh, and in typical faux-naif style, we're told that "two spots on the following list, for books whose authors are associated with this magazine, have been intentionally left blank because it would look creepy to include them. Many additional books have been completely omitted because they weren’t published in 2006, weren’t works of fiction, or because they don’t exist." Gee, thanks for the information.)