Books 2005

Since I'm keeping track of the books I'm reading in 2006, I thought I'd try to list all the books I read last year. Here is an incomplete list of books I read during 2005. It's incomplete because I deliberately excluded books I'd already read in earlier years, and because it's pretty likely I've just forgotten some of them. Graphic novels are listed separately. Both lists are in alphabetical order by title. Titles I particularly enjoyed are in red.

Books I read in 2005:

1. Lawrence Block, All the Flowers Are Dying
2. Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
3. Karen McCullah Lutz, The Bachelorette Party
4. Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
5. Michael Connelly, Blood Work
6. Douglas Brinkley, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion
7. John Grisham, The Broker
8. Julie Kenner, Carpe Demon
9. Michael Drosnin, Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness
10. Mark Gimenez, The Color of Law
11. Joseph Finder, Company Man
12. Kurt Eichenwald, Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
13. Steve Bogira, Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
14. Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
15. Kristoffer Garin, Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America's Cruise-Ship Empires
16. Rick Moody, The Diviners
17. Christopher Paolini, Eragon
18. Robert Crais, The Forgotten Man
19. Elise Juska, Getting Over Jack Wagner
20. Julie Kenner, The Givenchy Code
21. Naomi Schaefer Riley, God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
22. Jim Wallis, God's Politics
23. Janet Tashjian, The Gospel According to Larry
24. Deborah LeBlanc, Grave Intent
25. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
26. Kerrelyn Sparks, How To Marry a Millionaire Vampire
27. Neil Olson, The Icon
28. Kurt Eichenwald, The Informant
29. Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
30. Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
31. Rosemary Martin, It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder
32. Tom De Haven, It's Superman!
33. Susan Coll, karlmarx.com
34. Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
35. Will Clarke, Lord Vishnu's Love Handles
36. Jonathan Harr, The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
37. Bruce Campbell, Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way
38. Sarah L. Thompson, The Manny
39. Walter Kirn, Mission to America
40. Hannah McCouch, Mountain Betty
41. Avi and Rachel Vail, Never Mind
42. Jennifer Apodaca, Ninja Soccer Moms
43. Charles McCarry, Old Boys
44. Helen Fielding, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
45. Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
46. Joseph Finder, Paranoia
47. Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
48. Greg Rucka, Private Wars
49. Cass Sunstein, Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America
50. Candice Millard, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
51. Susan Coll, Rockville Pike
52. Jeff Byles, Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition
53. Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, The Rule of Four
54. Christopher Stasheff, Saint Vidicon to the Rescue
55. Clare Naylor and Mimi Hare, The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder
56. Kurt Eichenwald, Serpent on the Rock: Crime, Betrayal and the Terrible Secrets of Prudential Bache
57. Linda Park, A Single Shard
58. Tony Hillerman, Skeleton Man
59. Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, vol. 1: The Field Guide
60. Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles, vol. 2: The Seeing Stone
61. Bill Napier, Splintered Icon
62. Michael Crichton, State of Fear
63. Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel
64. Michael Chabon, Summerland
65. John Harris, The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
66. Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
67. Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord
68. Ted Dekker, Three
69. John Twelve Hawks, The Traveler
70. Julia Spencer-Fleming, To Darkness and To Death
71. Nate Blakeslee, Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
72. Max Allan Collins, The War of the Worlds Murder
73. Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder

Graphic novels I read during 2005:

1. Andy Diggle and Pascal Ferry, Adam Strange: Planet Heist
2. Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous
3. Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, Astonishing X-Men: Gifted
4. John Ridley and Ben Oliver, The Authority: Human on the Inside
5. Ed Brubaker and Dustin Nguyen, The Authority: Revolution, Book One
6. Judd Winick and Doug Mahnke, Batman: Under the Hood
7. Jill Thompson, The Dead Boy Detectives
8. Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris, Ex Machina: Tag
9. Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham, Fables: The Mean Seasons
10. Hiroyuki Tamakoshi, Gacha Gacha vol. 1
11. Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, Gotham Central: Half a Life
12. Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, Green Lantern: Rebirth
13. Giffen, DeMatteis, Maguire, and Rubinstein, I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League
14. Kurt Busiek and Ron Garney, JLA: Syndicate Rules
15. Geoff Johns and others, JSA: Black Reign
16. Geoff Johns and others, JSA: Lost
17. Geoff Johns and others, JSA: Princes of Darkness
18. Mark Waid and Barry Kitson, Legion of Super-Heroes: Teenage Revolution
19. Don Rosa, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
20. Ken Akamatsu, Negima! Magister Negi Magi vol. 1
21. Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch, New Avengers: Breakout
22. A cast of thousands, The OMAC Project
23. Judd Winick and others, Outsiders: Wanted
24. Brian K Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, Runaways: The Good Die Young
25. Dan Slott and Ty Templeton, Spider-Man/Human Torch: I'm With Stupid
26. Geoff Johns and Mike McKone, Teen Titans: Beast Boys and Girls
27. Geoff Johns and Mike McKone, Teen Titans: The Future is Now
28. Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, We3
29. Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y: The Last Man: Girl on Girl
30. Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, Young Avengers: Sidekicks

Looking over this list, I'm surprised so few of them (17) are non-fiction titles. I usually try to maintain a better balance between fiction and non-fiction than that.