2005 in books

Books and publishing in 2005.
Books published in 2005
* , Bernard Goldberg, current events,
* 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mannhistory, history
* 1776, David McCullough, history,
* 21st Century Game Design, Chris Bateman and Richard Boon,
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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,
* Accelerando, Charles Stross, science fiction short stories,
* Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories, Garth Nix,
* Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution, Stephen Breyer, current events, philosophy of law
* Advanced Perl Programming, Simon Cozens, computer programming,
* Adventures of a Jelly Baby, Judy Cornwell, autobiography,
* Air Babylon Imogen Edwards-Jones and "anonymous", British business book about the travel industry
* 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
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* , 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, , 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
* , Malcolm Gladwell, psychology
* Blood Sisters, Barbara and Stephanie Keating, novel
* Bookless in Baghdad, Shashi Tharoor, literary criticism
* , 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
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* Candyfreak
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* Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
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* 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
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* Commonwealth Saga
* Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace, essays
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* The Crime of Napoleon
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* Dead Men Don't Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa
* The Debian System
* The Devil In Brisbane
* , 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, , military, current events
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* 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
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* 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
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* GURPS Infinite Worlds
* GURPS Powers
* Gastronomicon
* Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
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* The Grinding House
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* 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
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* ICon: Steve Jobs
* The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965
* Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
* It Takes a Family
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* Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda
* The Journey of the Lost Boys
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* King Nicholas and the Copeman Empire
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* The Last Knight
* The Latham Diaries
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* Learning Perl
* Legion of the Lost
* Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, Michael Savage, , 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
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* 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), , military, current events
* , Rabbi David G. Dalin, history, religion
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* 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
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* Odysseus Unbound
* Off the Main Sequence
* Oh the Glory of it All
* On Bullshit
* Other Worlds Than Ours
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* Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light, David Downie, 30 essays about Paris, travel
* Petit Larousse
* Platinum Pohl, Frederik Pohl, , 30 science fiction stories
* Polio: An American Story, David M. Oshinsky, , history
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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 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
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* Teacher Man
* Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine, Candice E. Jackson, , current events
* To Charles Fort, With Love
* Today's New International Version
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*', Edward Klein, Sentinel
* Twilight
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* Under and Alone
* Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
* Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide
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* A View For Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks
* Voices From The Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis
* Midnight Library: Voices
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* 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
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* 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
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* 9tail Fox
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* After the Long Goodbye
* Air
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* Amber and Iron
* The Ambler Warning
* Among the Enemy
* 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
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* 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
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* Cast of Shadows
* Catch Me When I Fall
* Chainfire
* The Children of the Company
* Children of the Lamp
* City of Night
* The Clockwise Man
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* The Colorado Kid
* Comfort Food
* The Conqueror Worms
* Criss Cross
* Cryptid Hunters
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* 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
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* The Eagle
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* Elantris
* Eldest
* Eleven on Top
* End in Tears
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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* 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
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* The Gallifrey Chronicles
* Gentlemen & Players
* George and Rue
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* Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
* Gods of Aberdeen
* The Gods of War
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* Hades' Daughter
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* Hardboiled & Hard Luck
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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* 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
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* If You Could See Me Now
* Inexcusable
* Infernal Devices
* Inkheart
* Inkspell
* Inside Job
* The Interruption of Everything
* Island of Death
* The Italian Secretary
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* The Joiner King, Troy Denning, Star Wars book, science fiction
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* Keep Me In Mind
* Keepers
* The Key
* Knife of Dreams
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* 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
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* 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
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* Never Let Me Go
* No Country for Old Men
* No Present Like Time
* Nothing Serious
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* Old Man's War
* On Beauty
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* Only Human
* Orphans of Chaos
* The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege
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* The Pale Horseman
* Panic
* Peculiar Lives
* The Penelopiad
* The Penultimate Peril
* The People of Paper
* Pet Peeve
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* Playgrounds: a portrait of rave culture
* Pop Goes the Weasel
* PopCo
* The Possibility of an Island
* Predator
* Prodigal Son
* Punk Farm
* Pushing Ice
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* Q & A
* Queen of the Slayers
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* Ready or Not
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* The Rivers of Zadaa
* The Road to Dune
* Running from the Deity
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* 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
* Spiral Scratch
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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
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* Unleash the Night
* The Unseen Queen
* Until I Find You
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* Velocity, Dean Koontz, mystery, suspense
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* Wag the Dog: A Novel
* War of the Worlds: New Millennium
* Warring States
* The Warrior Prophet
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* Whispering Nickel Idols
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* Wizards at War
* Woken Furies
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* Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
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* 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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