The 2005-2006 New York City Book Awards

The 2005 winners were honored at a ceremony on May 3, 2006.

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Covers of the 2005-2006 NYC Book Awards winning books

Book of the Year

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore (Knopf)

Award for Photography

The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940 by Donald Albrecht (Princeton Architectural Press)

Award for Biography

Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth by Steven G. Kellman (W.W. Norton & Co.)