1906 in literature

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

Deaths

 * February 9 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet
 * March 2 - Ellen Mary Clerke, novelist
 * April 6 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian novelist (b. 1849)
 * April 11 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher
 * April 14 - Nora Chesson, poet
 * May 23 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (b. 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