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 0-06-076128-8
• 100-Minute Bible, Michael Hinton, religion
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mannhistory, history ISBN 1-4000-4006-X)
• 1776 (book), David McCullough, history
• 21st Century Game Design, Chris Bateman and Richard Boon, ISBN 1-58450-429-3

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
• Accelerando (book), Charles Stross, science fiction short stories
• Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories
• Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution, Stephen Breyer, current events, philosophy of law ISBN 0-307-26313-4
• Advanced Perl Programming, Sriram Srinivasan, computer programming
• Adventures of a Jelly Baby, Judy Cornwell, autobiography
• Agile Web Development with Rails, computer programming
• Air Babylon Imogen Edwards-Jones and "anonymous", British business book about the travel industry ISBN 0-593-05456-3
• Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works, Christopher Eamon, editor; art, film
• Anti-Semitism: At Issue (2005), Mark McKain, editor; current events ISBN 0-7377-2356-4
• 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
• 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 0-7867-1704-1, 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 lawcreated by Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham, comic book series
• Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard, Matt Curtin, about cryptography

C

• Candyfreak
• The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire
• 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 (book)
• The Crime of Napoleon

D

• Dead Men Don't Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa
• The Debian System
• Democratizing Innovation
• Demons in Eden
• The Devil In Brisbane
• The Dispossessed : Colombia
• The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages, humor book for fans of The Rush Limbaugh Show
• 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 1-4000-6317-5, military, current events

E

• Emotional Intelligence Quick Book
• 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
• 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
• Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games
• 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 (graphic novel)
• Grantville Gazette V
• Great Lies To Tell Small Kids
• The Grinding House

H

• Healthy Money, Healthy Planet: Developing Sustainability through New Money Systems, Deirdre Kent, ISBN 187733298, personal finance
• 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
• The Industry Standard Anthology
• Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington
• Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
• Is This My Ride? Seeking Divine Guidance in Our Lives.
• Israel: Opposing Viewpoints
• 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
• Kokopelli & Company

L

• Labyrinth (book)
• The Last Knight
• The Latham Diaries
• Lawless World (book)
• Learning Perl
• Legion of the Lost
• Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, Michael Savage, ISBN 1-59555-006-2, current events
• Lipstick Jihad, Azadeh Moaveni, autobiography, current events
• Livewires
• The Long Emergency
• Looking for Jake
• Lords of Madness
• Lords of the Levee
• Lost on the Darkside
• Love Smart
• 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
• Milk (book)
• 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 0-399-15327-6, 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
• 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 0-312-87527-4, 30 science fiction stories
• Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky, ISBN 0-19-515294-8, history
• Postwar (book)
• The Profits of Extermination
• Puzzles for Hackers

Q

• The Quotable Robertson Davies

R

• Race Relations: Opposing Viewpoints
• 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 King
• The Secret Mulroney Tapes
• Silence on the Wire
• The Singularity Is Near
• Sister Freaks
• Smartbomb
• A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
• South Park Conservatives
• Standing Alone in Mecca
• Starwater Strains
• Stories of Strength
• Strong at the Heart: How it feels to heal from sexual abuse
• The Success Principles
• The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley

T

• Tales of Adam
• Teacher Man
• Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine, Candice E. Jackson, ISBN 0974670138, current events
• To Charles Fort, With Love
• Toad Heaven
• 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

U

• UML in a Nutshell
• Under and Alone
• Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
• Universe (book)
• Unruly complexity

V

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

W

• War - Opposing Viewpoints
• Warped Passages
• We3
• Where Troy Once Stood
• Whittington (book)
• 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

Z

• Zerah Colburn: The Spirit of Darkness, John Mortimer, ISBN 184549024X, biography

Novels published in 2005

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

A

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

B

• Babyji
• Back in Black (novel)
• Beasts of No Nation
• The Big Over Easy
• Blades of the Tiger
• Bodmin Moor (novel)
• Brass Man
• A Breath of Snow and Ashes (novel)
• 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 (novel)
• The Clockwise Man
• Colony (Buffy novel)
• The Colorado Kid
• Comfort Food (novel)
• The Conqueror Worms
• Criss Cross (novel)
• Cryptid Hunters

D

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

E

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

F

• A Faerie Ring
• Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
• Fear Itself
• A Feast for Crows
• The First Casualty
• Flashman on the March
• Fledgling
• Flush (novel)
• Foreign Babes in Beijing
• Forever Odd
• Four and Twenty Blackbirds (novel)
• From the Files of the Time Rangers

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
• Hal Spacejock
• Harbinger (Star Trek novel)
• Hardboiled & Hard Luck (novel)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Haunted (fantasy book)
• Haunted (novel)
• 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
• Hypnosis (novel)

I

• If You Could See Me Now
• Inexcusable
• Infernal Devices
• Inkheart
• Inkspell
• Inside Job (novel)
• 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 (novel)
• Knife of Dreams

L

• La Morsure du dragon
• Learning the World
• The Legend of Dagad Trikon
• The Lighthouse (novel)
• Lipstick Jungle
• Locked Rooms
• A Long Long Way
• A Long Way Down
• Looking for Alaska
• The Loony: a novella of epic proportions
• Lord Loss
• The Loveday Loyalty
• The Loveday Pride
• Lunch Money (novel)

M

• Magic Street
• Magyk
• The Manticore's Secret
• March (novel)
• Maria Dracula
• Marker (novel)
• Marley & Me
• Mary, Mary
• Match of the Day (Doctor Who)
• Mean Spirits
• Measuring the World: A Novel
• The Mermaid Chair
• The Minotaur
• Mists of Everness
• The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel
• Monster (novel)
• Monster Nation (novel)

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• The Monsters Inside

N

• Never Let Me Go
• Night Terrors (Buffy novel)
• No Country for Old Men
• No Present Like Time
• Nothing Serious (novel)

O

• Obsessed (novel)
• Old Man's War
• On Beauty
• One Night @ the Call Center
• Only Human
• Orphans of Chaos

P

• The Pale Horseman
• Panic (novel)
• Peculiar Lives
• The Penelopiad
• The Penultimate Peril
• The People of Paper
• Pet Peeve
• The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling
• Pop Goes the Weasel (novel)
• PopCo
• The Possibility of an Island
• Predator (novel)
• Primal Tears
• Prodigal Son (novel)
• Punk Farm
• Pushing Ice

Q

• Q and A
• Queen of the Slayers

R

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

S

• Saturday (novel)
• The Sea (novel)
• 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 (novel)
• Sleeper Cell (book)
• Slow Man
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
• Son of a Witch
• Spark and Burn
• Specimen Days
• Spin (novel)
• Spiral Scratch (Doctor Who)
• Spud (book)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (novel)
• The Stealers of Dreams
• Straken
• The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
• A Stroke of Midnight
• The Suicide King (Buffy novel)
• The Summer Garden
• Sunstorm (novel)
• The Swarm War
• Swastika (Slade)

T

• Taking back Mary Ellen Black
• Ten Men
• The Tenor Wore Tapshoes
• 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 (novel)
• The Train to Lo Wu, Jess Row, collection of seven short stories in and around Hong Kong
• Transcendent (novel)
• Treason in the Flatlands
• 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 (novel)

U

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

V

• Velocity (novel), Dean Koontz, mystery, suspense

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
• Winner Takes All (Doctor Who)
• Wizards at War
• Woken Furies
• World Game (Doctor Who)

Z

• Zorro (novel). 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

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