2006 New Author Alphabet Challenge

I read a total of 42 new-to-me authors to complete the challenge on November 10, 2006!
Five of these books got a 10 in my rating system. Check them out!

Aslet, Don - Clutter's Last Stand 6/10
Barnes, Kim - Hungry for the World 8.5/10
Brodeur, Adrienne - Man Camp 7/10
Coben, Harlan - No Second Chance 7.5/10
Chaon, Dan - You Remind Me of Me 7.5/10
Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking 7/10
Evanovich, Janet - Metro Girl 9.5/10
Flock, Elizabeth - Me & Emma 8.5/10
Giordano, Marie - I Love You Like a Tomato 8/10
Gerritsen, Tess - Vanish 9/10
Gutcheon, Beth - Domestic Pleasures 9.5/10
Gregory, David - A Day With a Perfect Stranger 5/10
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner - 9.5/10
Isaacs, Susan - Any Place I Hang My Hat - 8/10
Jackson, Joshilyn - Gods in Alabama 10/10
Kuffel, Frances - Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself 7.5/10
Kersey, Cynthia - Unstoppable 7/10
Kimmel, Haven - A Girl Named Zippy 10/10
Kaysen, Susanna - Girl, Interrupted 7/10
Kaufman, Jennifer & Mack, Karen - Literacy & Longing in LA - 8.5/10
Lisner, Caren - Carrie Pilby 10/10
Leavitt, Caroline - Girls in Trouble 9.5/10
Moss, Barbara Robinette - Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter 8/10
Moran, Thomas - The Man in the Box - 8/10
Nichols, Linda - Handyman 6/10
Notaro, Laurie - The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club 7/10
Olson, Shannon - Children of God Go Bowling 9/10
Palmer, Liza - Conversations With the Fat Girl 8/10
Quarles, Heather - A Door Near Here 8/10
Ribon, Pamela - Why Girls Are Weird 9.5/10
Stewart, Leah - The Myth of You & Me 8/10
Shapiro, Dani - Family History 7/10
Shelton, Sandi Kahn - A Piece of Normal 9/10
Tucker, Lisa - Once Upon a Day 8.5/10
Tishy, Cecelia - All in One Piece 9/10
Thompson, Vicki Lewis - Talk Nerdy to Me 5/10
Unger, Lisa - Beautiful Lies 8.5/10
Voigt, Cynthia - Homecoming 9.5/10
Waldman, Ayelet - Love and Other Impossible Pursuits 9/10
Wiesel, Elie - Night 10/10
Wolitzer, Meg - The Wife 7/10
Xingjian, Gao - Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather 4/10
Young, Elizabeth - Asking for Trouble 8/10
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief 10/10