1906 in literature

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The year 1906 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• December 24 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, broadcasts.
• Annie Carroll Moore opens the children's department at the New York Public Library.

New books

• Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
• Pio Baroja - King Paradox
• L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub
  • - Annabel (as "Suzanne Metcalf")
  • - Aunt Jane's Nieces (as "Edith Van Dyne")
  • - Daughters of Destiny (as "Schuyler Staunton")
  • - Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea (as "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald")
  • - The Twinkle Tales (as "Laura Bancroft")
• Rex Beach - The Spoilers
• Hall Caine - Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question
• Paul Carus - Amitabha
• Mary Cholmondeley - Prisoners
• William de Morgan - Joseph Vance
• Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Nigel
• Ford Madox Ford - The Fifth Queen
• Zona Gale - Romance Island
• John Galsworthy - The Man of Property
• Ellen Glasgow - The Wheel of Life
• Elinor Glyn - Beyond the Rocks
• Remy de Gourmont - A Night in the Luxembourg
• O. Henry - The Four Million
• Hermann Hesse - Beneath the Wheel
• Selma Lagerlöf - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson
• Arthur Machen - The House of Souls
• George Moore (novelist) - My Dead Life
• Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children
  • The Story of the Amulet
• Baroness Orczy - I Will Repay (novel)
  • A Son of the People
• David Maclean Parry - The Scarlet Empire
• Felix Salten (attributed) - Josephine Mutzenbacher
• Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
• Natsume Sōseki - Botchan
• Frank Thiess - Men At War
• Mark Twain - What Is Man?
• Mary Augusta Ward - Fenwick's Career
• H. G. Wells - In the Days of the Comet
• Owen Wister - Lady Baltimore

New drama

• John Galsworthy - The Silver Box
• Harley Granville-Barker - Waste
• George Barr McCutcheon - Brewster's Millions (adaptation)
• Emma Orczy - The Sin of William Jackson

Non-fiction

• Hall Caine - My Story
• Joseph Conrad - The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions

Births

• January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (died 1936)
• January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (died 1990)
• February 8 - Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer (died 1995)
• February 15 - Musa Calil, poet (died 1944)
• March 25 - A.J.P. Taylor, historian (died 1990)
• April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (died 1989)
• June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist (died 1998)
• July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist (died 1963)
• August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer (died 2002)
• September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Atlanta (died 2000)
• October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (died 2001)
• October 16 - Dino Buzzati, Italian author (died 1972)
• October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual (died 1975)
• November 30 - John Dickson Carr, American detective fiction author (died 1977)

Deaths

• February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
• March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke, novelist
• April 6 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (born 1849)
• April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
• April 14 - Nora Chesson, poet
• May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (born 1828)
• June 29 - Albert Sorel, historian
• June 30 - Jean Lorrain, Symbolist poet
• December 6 - Anne Ross Cousin, poet

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Giosuè Carducci