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

New books

• Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams
• Pio Baroja - King Paradox
• Rex Beach - The Spoilers
• Hall Caine - Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question
• Paul Carus - Amitabha
• Mary Cholmondeley - Prisoners
• Joseph Conrad - The Mirror of the Sea
• 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
• 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, theatrical adaptation
• Baroness Orczy - The Sin of William Jackson

Non-fiction

• Hall Caine - My Story

Births

• January 22 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author (d. 1936)
• January 23 - Anya Seton, American romantic author (d. 1990)
• February 15 - Musa Calil, poet
• March 25 - A.J.P. Taylor, historian
• April 13 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1969
• June 20 - Catherine Cookson, best-selling novelist
• July 18 - Clifford Odets, dramatist
• August 30 - Elizabeth Longford, biographer
• September 25 - Franklin Garrett, historian of Atlanta
• October 10 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• October 14 - Hannah Arendt, German/US intellectual

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