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
* 100-Minute Bible, Michael Hinton, religion, ISBN 978-09551324-0-7
* , Charles C. Mannhistory, history ISBN 978-1-4000-4006-3
* 1776 (book), David McCullough, history, ISBN 0-7432-2671-2
* 21st Century Game Design, Chris Bateman and Richard Boon, ISBN 978-1-58450-429-0

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* 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
* , Garth Nix, ISBN 978-0-00722-145-5
* , Stephen Breyer, current events, philosophy of law ISBN 978-0-307-26313-1
* Advanced Perl Programming, Simon Cozens, computer programming, ISBN 978-0-59600-456-9
* Adventures of a Jelly Baby, Judy Cornwell, autobiography, ISBN 0-283-07001-3
* Agile Web Development with Rails, computer programming
* Air Babylon Imogen Edwards-Jones and "anonymous", British business book about the travel industry ISBN 978-0-593-05456-7
* , 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
* , comic book
* , Norman G. Finkelstein, current events
* , 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 lawcreated by Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham, comic book series
* , Matt Curtin, about cryptography

C

* Candyfreak
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* Captivating (book)
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* 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

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* The Debian System
* Democratizing Innovation
* Demons in Eden
* The Devil In Brisbane
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* The Dittohead's Guide to Adult Beverages, humor book for fans of The Rush Limbaugh Show
* , Peter Schweizer, current events
* Does the World Hate the United States?, edited by Andrea C. Nakaya, part of the "At Issues" series, current events
* , Robert A. Pape, ISBN 978-1-4000-6317-8, military, current events

E

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* Everything Bad is Good for You
* The Ezekiel Option

F

* Female Chauvinist Pigs
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* Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, economics
* Freedom of Expression®
* The Friend Who Got Away

G

* GURPS Infinite Worlds
* GURPS Powers
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* Gastronomicon
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* Grantville Gazette V
* The Grinding House

H

* , Deirdre Kent, ISBN-13: 978-1877333293 , personal finance
* , 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

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* The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965
* The Industry Standard Anthology
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* Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
* Is This My Ride? Seeking Divine Guidance in Our Lives.
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* It Takes a Family

J

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* The Journey of the Lost Boys

K

* King Nicholas and the Copeman Empire
* Kokopelli & Company

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 Jake
* Lords of Madness
* Lords of the Levee
* Lucky Child
* Lunar Park

M

* A Man Without a Country
* Manga Kenkanryu
* , Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, biography
* Master of Space and Time
* Maximum Fantastic Four
* Milk
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* The Music and Art of Radiohead
* , Colby Buzzell, a soldier deployed in Iraq (2003–2005), ISBN 978-0-399-15327-3, military, current events
* , 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
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* 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

* , David Downie, 30 essays about Paris, travel
* Petit Larousse
* Platinum Pohl, Frederik Pohl, ISBN 978-0-312-87527-5, 30 science fiction stories
* , David M. Oshinsky, ISBN 978-0-19-515294-4, history
* Postwar (book)
* The Profits of Extermination

Q

* The Quotable Robertson Davies

R

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* 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

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* The Secret King
* The Secret Mulroney Tapes
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* Silence on the Wire
* The Singularity Is Near
* Sister Freaks
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* A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
* South Park Conservatives
* Standing Alone in Makah
* Starwater Strains
* Stories of Strength
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* The Success Principles
* The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley

T

* Tales of Adam
* Teacher Man
* , Candice E. Jackson, ISBN 978-0-9746701-3-3, current events
* To Charles Fort, With Love
* Toad Heaven
* Today's New International Version
* Together (2005 children's book)
* The Truth (with jokes)
*"", Edward Klein, Sentinel

U

* UML in a Nutshell
* Under and Alone
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* Universe (book)

V

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* Vox (The Edge Chronicles)

W

* War - Opposing Viewpoints
* 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
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Z

* , John Mortimer, ISBN 978-1-84549-024-9, biography

Novels published in 2005

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* 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
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* 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
* Death of a Washington Madame
* Designated Targets
* The Deviant Strain
* Dirge
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* Dragonsblood
* Drowned Wednesday

E

* The Eagle
* Echoes (Time Hunter)
* Elantris
* Eldest
* Eleven on Top
* 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
* Foreign Babes in Beijing
* Forever Odd
* Four and Twenty Blackbirds

G

* The Gallifrey Chronicles
* Gentlemen & Players
* George and Rue
* Ghost (John Ringo novel)
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* 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 (fantasy book)
* 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
* Hypnosis

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

* La Morsure du dragon
* 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
* Mary, Mary
* Match of the Day
* Mean Spirits
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* The Mermaid Chair
* The Minotaur
* Mists of Everness
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* Monster
* Monster Nation
* Monster Planet
* The Monsters Inside

N

* Never Let Me Go
* Night Terrors (Buffy novel)
* 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

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
* Pop Goes the Weasel
* PopCo
* The Possibility of an Island
* Predator
* Primal Tears
* Prodigal Son
* Punk Farm
* Pushing Ice

Q

* Q and 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

* Saturday
* The Sea
* The Secret River
* The Serpent on the Crown
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* Seven Ancient Wonders
* Shadow Patriots
* Shadow of the Giant
* Shalimar the Clown
* Shaman's Crossing
* A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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* 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)
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* 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
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* To the Slaughter
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* 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)
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* The Truth About Diamonds
* The Truth-Teller's Tale
* Twilight

U

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

V

* Vellum, Hal Duncan, fantasy
* Velocity, Dean Koontz, mystery, suspen se

W

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* 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)

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"

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* 2005 in literature