books: 2005
(A star indicates a book I especially loved.)
December
- *Begin Again: Collected Poems by Grace Paley
- Fear of Subways by Maureen Seaton
- Dizzy by Cathy Cassidy
- Birdland by Tracy Mack
- Dailies & Rushes by Susan Kinsolving
- Valentine Place by David Lehman
- *Decreation by Anne Carson
- What Erika Wants by Bruce Clements
- Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
November
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
- Sad Little Breathing Machine by Matthea Harvey
- On Subbing: The First Four Years by Dave Roche
October
- Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West by Donald Worster
- *Elmer and the Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- *My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
September
- *The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
- Deliver Us From Normal by Kate Klise
- *Happiness and Education by Nel Noddings
August
- *Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- Vita-Sackville West: Selected Writings edited by Mary Ann Caws
- The Seas by Samantha Hunt
- *Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
- The Grey King by Susan Cooper
- *Possession by A.S. Byatt
July
- The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- *Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
- The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
- *Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
- *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
June
- *Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones (again!)
- The Misfits by James Howe
- Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
- When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman
- *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
May
- Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald, trans. Anthea Bell
- Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate
- *School of the Arts by Mark Doty
- Time's Magpie: A Walk in Prague by Myla Goldberg
- Knowing the East by Paul Claudel, trans. James Lawley
April
- *Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
- *Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty
March
- *Plastic Angel by Nerissa Nields
- Grammar is a Gentle, Sweet Song by Erik Orsenna, trans. Moishe Black
- *The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
February
- The Unbearable Heart by Kimiko Hahn
- A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books by Alberto Manguel
- I Can't Tell You by Hillary Frank
- The Good People of New York by Thisbe Nissen
- On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense by David Brooks
- The Stranger Next Door by Amélie Nothomb, trans. Carol Volk
January
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, trans. Jeremy Leggatt
- *The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon
- A Possible World by Kenneth Koch
- *Subway Memories by Camilo José Vergara
- The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems by Mina Loy selected and edited by Robert Conover
- The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
- Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke, trans. Anthea Bell
- Passages by Ann Quin
- The Iron Tonic by Edward Gorey
- Holes by Louis Sachar
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