- 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
Adult Fiction Winner
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell bySusanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)Adult Fiction Honor Books
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Eventide byKent Haruf (Knopf)
*The Birth of Venus bySarah Dunant (Random House)
*The Plot Against America byPhilip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
*The Shadow of the Wind byCarlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin Press)Adult Nonfiction Winner
*Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by
Robert Kurson (Random House)Adult Nonfiction Honor Books
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Candyfreak bySteve Almond (Algonquin and Harcourt)
*The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker ,Robert Mankoff (Ed.) (Black Dog & Leventhal)
*Magical Thinking byAugusten Burroughs (St. Martin's)
*Truth & Beauty byAnn Patchett (HarperCollins)Children's Literature Winner
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Chasing Vermeer byBlue Balliett , illustrated byBrett Helquist (Scholastic Press)Children's Literature Honor Books
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Becoming Naomi Leon byPam Munoz Ryan (Scholastic)
*Ida B ... and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World byKatherine Hannigan (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
*Peter and the Starcatchers byDave Barry andRidley Pearson (Disney Editions)
*The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Antheneum/Simon & Schuster)Children's Illustrated Winner
*Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Children's Illustrated Honor Books
*Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henke (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
*Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
*Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle (Philomel/Penguin USA)
*Wild About Books by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Marc Brown (Knopf Books for Young Readers)References
*http://www.bookweb.org/btw/awards/BSBY.html
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