New Books of 2005

These are all the books that I’ve read for the first time in 2005.

Adult Fiction

The Nanny Diaries — Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Jemima J — Jane Green
The Red Tent — Anita Daimant
The Dark Tower — Stephen King
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles — Haruki Murakami
Cast of Shadows — Kevin Guilfoile

Juvenile/YA Fiction

Realistic

Seventeenth Summer — Maureen Daly
Rules of the Road — Joan Bauer
Born Confused — Tanuja Desai Hidier
Breathing Underwater — Alex Flinn
Dreamland — Sarah Dessen
An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio — Judith Ortiz Cofer
Fallen Angels — Walter Dean Myers

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

The Merlin Conspiracy — Diana Wynne Jones
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm — Nancy Farmer
Midnight Magic — Avi
The Dark Side of Nowhere — Neal Shusterman
Elsewhere — Will Shetterly
In the Forests of the Night — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Nonfiction

The Best of James Herriot — James Herriot
Catch Me If You Can — Frank W. Abagnale
Three Among the Wolves — Helen Thayer
The Kid — Dan Savage

Graphic Format

Understanding Comics — Scott McCloud

Re-Reads of 2005

I re-read books a lot. I rarely keep a book that I wouldn’t want to re-read. These are all the books I’ve re-read in 2005.

Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle — Avi
The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton
Weetzie Bat — Francesca Lia Block
Eva — Peter Dickinson