2005 in books

Books and publishing in 2005.

Books published in 2005

• 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37), Bernard Goldberg, current events, ISBN 978-0-06-076128-8
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mannhistory, history ISBN 978-1-4000-4006-3
• 1776, David McCullough, history, ISBN 0-7432-2671-2
• 21st Century Game Design, Chris Bateman and Richard Boon, ISBN 978-1-58450-429-0

A

• A Turning Point in National History, Karel van Wolferen and Jan Sampiemon, a Dutch book ("Een keerpunt in de vaderlandse geschiedenis") on the foreign policy of the United States, current events, ISBN 90-290-7698-4
• Accelerando, Charles Stross, science fiction short stories, ISBN 0-441-01284-1
• Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories, Garth Nix, ISBN 978-0-00-722145-5
• Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution, Stephen Breyer, current events, philosophy of law ISBN 978-0-307-26313-1
• Advanced Perl Programming, Simon Cozens, computer programming, ISBN 978-0-596-00456-9
• Adventures of a Jelly Baby, Judy Cornwell, autobiography, ISBN 0-283-07001-3
• Air Babylon Imogen Edwards-Jones and "anonymous", British business book about the travel industry ISBN 978-0-593-05456-7
• Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works, Christopher Eamon, editor; art, film
• Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide, Maureen Dowd, current events
• The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman, humor
• Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell, humor, travel

B

• Bad Company (comics), comic book
• Baseball Before We Knew It, David Block, about the history of baseball
• Batman: The Man Who Laughs, comic book
• Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, Norman G. Finkelstein, current events
• Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America, Keith Boykin, ISBN 978-0-7867-1704-0, sexuality, African-American concerns, current events
• The Bible and Its Influence, high school textbook on religion
• Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Thomas Sowell, current events
• Blink (book), Malcolm Gladwell, psychology
• Blood Sisters, Barbara and Stephanie Keating, novel
• Bookless in Baghdad, Shashi Tharoor, literary criticism
• A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book), science
• Brodie's law created by Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham, comic book series
• Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard, Matt Curtin, about cryptography

C

• Candyfreak
• Captivating (book)
• Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
• Chiaroscuro (comics)
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
• Chris Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat
• The City in Europe and the World
• The City of Falling Angels
• Cloud, Castle, Lake
• Collapse (book)
• Commonwealth Saga
• Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace, essays
• Conviction (novel)
• The Crime of Napoleon

D

• Dead Men Don't Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa
• The Debian System
• The Devil In Brisbane
• Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, Peter Schweizer, current events
• Does the World Hate the United States?, edited by Andrea C. Nakaya, part of the "At Issues" series, current events
• Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Robert A. Pape, ISBN 978-1-4000-6317-8, military, current events

E

• The Elf on the Shelf
• The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp
• Everything Bad Is Good for You
• The Ezekiel Option

F

• Female Chauvinist Pigs
• Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant
• Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
• Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies
• Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, economics
• Freedom of Expression®
• The Friend Who Got Away

G

• GURPS Infinite Worlds
• GURPS Powers
• Gastronomicon
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
• Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
• The Grinding House

H

• Heavy Metal: a Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad, Captain Jason Conroy with Ron Martz, military, current events
• Herding Cats, A Life in Politics, Trent Lott, current events, autobiography
• Hitlers Bombe, Rainer Karlsch, history

I

• ICon: Steve Jobs
• The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965
• Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
• It Takes a Family

J

• Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda
• The Journey of the Lost Boys

K

• King Nicholas and the Copeman Empire

L

• Labyrinth (novel)
• The Last Knight
• The Latham Diaries
• Lawless World (book)
• Learning Perl
• Legion of the Lost
• Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, Michael Savage, ISBN 978-1-59555-006-4, current events
• Lipstick Jihad, Azadeh Moaveni, autobiography, current events
• Livewires
• The Long Emergency
• Looking for Alaska
• Looking for Jake
• Lords of Madness
• Lords of the Levee
• Lucky Child
• Lunar Park

M

• A Man Without a Country
• Manga Kenkanryu
• Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, biography
• Master of Space and Time
• Maximum Fantastic Four
• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
• Milk
• Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture
• The Music and Art of Radiohead
• My War: Killing Time in Iraq, Colby Buzzell, a soldier deployed in Iraq (2003–2005), ISBN 978-0-399-15327-3, military, current events
• The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Rabbi David G. Dalin, history, religion

N

• Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About
• The New Book of Lists
• New Cambridge Paragraph Bible
• New English Translation
• Nil: A Land Beyond Belief
• Nothing's Sacred

O

• Odysseus Unbound
• Off the Main Sequence
• Oh the Glory of it All
• On Bullshit
• Other Worlds Than Ours
• The Outcast (anthology)

P

• Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light, David Downie, 30 essays about Paris, travel
• Petit Larousse
• Platinum Pohl, Frederik Pohl, ISBN 978-0-312-87527-5, 30 science fiction stories
• Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky, ISBN 978-0-19-515294-4, history
• Postwar (book)

R

• Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail
• The Rats of Hamelin
• The Rebel Sell
• Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible
• Revenge of the Wannabes
• Rough Crossings
• Rude Britain
• Runny Babbit

S

• The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
• The Secret Mulroney Tapes
• Short Trips: A Day in the Life
• Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins
• Short Trips: The Solar System
• The Singularity Is Near
• SMARTBOMB: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution
• A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
• South Park Conservatives
• Starwater Strains
• Stories of Strength
• The Success Principles

T

• Teacher Man
• Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine, Candice E. Jackson, ISBN 978-0-9746701-3-3, current events
• To Charles Fort, With Love
• Today's New International Version
• Together (2005 children's book)
• The Truth (with jokes)
• The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President, Edward Klein, Sentinel
• Twilight

U

• Under and Alone
• Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild

• Universe (book)

V

• A View For Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks
• Voices From The Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis
• Vox (The Edge Chronicles)

W

• Warped Passages
• We3
• Where Troy Once Stood
• Wild Ducks Flying Backward
• Wildthyme on Top
• Winning the Future
• With Every Mistake
• The World Before
• The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman, economics, current events
• Wrong about Japan

Y

• The Year of Magical Thinking
• Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp

Novels published in 2005

• 1812: The Rivers of War
• 44 Scotland Street
• 4th of July (novel)
• 9tail Fox

A

• After the Long Goodbye
• Air
• Airborn (novel)
• Amber and Iron
• The Ambler Warning
• An Unkindness of Ravens
• Anansi Boys
• Ark Angel
• Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
• Arthur & George
• As Seen on TV
• At All Costs
• Atlanta Nights
• Atom Bomb Blues
• Avalon High

B

• Babyji
• Back in Black
• Beasts of No Nation
• The Big Over Easy
• Blades of the Tiger
• Brass Man
• A Breath of Snow and Ashes
• The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
• The Brightonomicon
• The Broker
• Brooklyn Follies
• The Brothers Bishop
• Building Harlequin's Moon
• Burning Tower

C

• Cast of Shadows
• Catch Me When I Fall
• Chainfire
• The Children of the Company
• Children of the Lamp
• City of Night
• The Clockwise Man
• Colony (Buffy novel)
• The Colorado Kid
• Comfort Food
• The Conqueror Worms
• Criss Cross
• Cryptid Hunters

D

• Dance of Death
• The Dark Crusade
• Darkwitch Rising
• The Dead Alive
• The Death Collectors
• Designated Targets
• The Deviant Strain
• Dirge
• A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
• Dragonsblood
• Drowned Wednesday

E

• The Eagle
• Echoes (Time Hunter)
• Elantris
• Eldest
• Eleven on Top
• End in Tears
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

F

• Fear Itself
• A Feast for Crows
• The First Casualty
• Flashman on the March
• Fledgling
• Flush
• Foreign Babes in Beijing
• Forever Odd
• Four and Twenty Blackbirds

G

• The Gallifrey Chronicles
• Gentlemen & Players
• George and Rue
• Ghost (John Ringo novel)
• Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
• Gods of Aberdeen
• The Gods of War

H

• Hades' Daughter
• Harbinger (Star Trek novel)
• Hardboiled & Hard Luck
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Haunted (Armstrong novel)
• Haunted
• The Hello, Goodbye Window
• The Hidden Family
• High Rhulain
• The Historian
• Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
• The Hot Kid
• How to Survive a Robot Uprising
• Human Traces

I

• If You Could See Me Now
• Inexcusable
• Infernal Devices
• Inkheart
• Inkspell
• Inside Job
• The Interruption of Everything
• Island of Death
• The Italian Secretary

J

• The Joiner King, Troy Denning, Star Wars book, science fiction

K

• Keep Me In Mind
• Keepers
• The Key
• Knife of Dreams

L

• Learning the World
• The Lighthouse
• Lipstick Jungle
• Locked Rooms
• A Long Long Way
• A Long Way Down
• Looking for Alaska
• Lord Loss
• The Loveday Loyalty
• The Loveday Pride
• Lunch Money

M

• Magic Street
• Magyk
• The Manticore's Secret
• March
• Marker
• Marley & Me
• Match of the Day
• Mean Spirits
• Measuring the World: A Novel
• The Mermaid Chair
• The Minotaur
• Mists of Everness
• The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
• Monster
• Monster Nation
• Monster Planet
• The Monsters Inside

N

• Never Let Me Go
• No Country for Old Men
• No Present Like Time
• Nothing Serious

O

• Obsessed (novel)
• Old Man's War
• On Beauty
• One Night @ the Call Center
• Only Human
• Orphans of Chaos
• The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege

P

• The Pale Horseman
• Panic
• Peculiar Lives
• The Penelopiad
• The Penultimate Peril
• The People of Paper
• Pet Peeve
• The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling
• Playgrounds: a portrait of rave culture
• Pop Goes the Weasel
• PopCo
• The Possibility of an Island
• Predator
• Prodigal Son
• Punk Farm
• Pushing Ice

Q

• Q & A
• Queen of the Slayers

R

• The Regime (Left Behind)
• Ready or Not
• The Rising (Left Behind)
• Resurrection (Forgotten Realms)
• The Rivers of Zadaa
• The Road to Dune
• Running from the Deity

S

• Saturday
• The Sea
• The Secret River
• The Serpent on the Crown
• Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
• Seven Ancient Wonders
• Shadow Patriots
• Shadow of the Giant
• Shalimar the Clown
• Shaman's Crossing
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• Short Trips: A Day in the Life
• Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins
• Short Trips: The History of Christmas
• Short Trips: The Solar System
• SilverFin
• Sky Burial
• Skybreaker
• Sleeper Cell
• Slow Man
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
• Son of a Witch
• Spark and Burn
• Specimen Days
• Spin
• Sp iral Scratch
• Spud (novel)
• Revenge of the Sith
• The Stealers of Dreams
• Straken
• The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
• A Stroke of Midnight
• The Summer Garden
• Sunstorm
• The Swarm War
• Swastika (Slade)

T

• Taking back Mary Ellen Black
• Ten Men
• The Tenor Wore Tapshoes
• The Thing About Jane Spring, chick lit romantic comedy by Sharon Krum
• Third Wish
• Three Day Road
• Thud!
• The Time Travellers
• A Time to Run
• To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh
• To the Slaughter
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
• Torpedo Juice
• The Train to Lo Wu, Jess Row, collection of seven short stories in and around Hong Kong
• Transcendent
• The Tree of Life (Bernice Summerfield)
• The Tricky Part : One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace
• The Truth About Diamonds
• The Truth-Teller's Tale
• Twilight

U

• Unleash the Night
• The Unseen Queen
• Until I Find You

V

• Velocity, Dean Koontz, mystery, suspen se

W

• Wag the Dog: A Novel
• War of the Worlds: New Millennium
• Warring States
• The Warrior Prophet
• What You Won't Do for Love
• Whispering Nickel Idols
• Whittington (novel)
• Winner Takes All (Doctor Who)
• Wizards at War
• Woken Furies
• World Game (Doctor Who)

Y

• Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente

Z

• Zorro. Isabel Allende, a fictional "biography" of Zorro and written as a prequel to the original Zorro story, Johnston McCulley's 1919 novella The Curse of Capistrano

See also

• 2005 in literature