Good Reads 2005

In 10 days it will be 2006! As always, I feel pretty excited thinking about what books I will get to read in the new year.

2005 was a good reading year. I read a lot of books, mostly cause I had, for work (poor me!), but luckily it was often as case of "business but a pleasure too".

Anyway, here is my list of the "best of 2005". They're all books I enjoyed for the first time this year and include old and new titles, but it's likely that I have forgotten something really good cos I'm compiling the list off the top of my head. Well, if I do think of more books I will add them on later.

Good Reads 2005
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Ithaka by Adele Geras

Godless by Pete Hautman

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Here be Monsters by Alan Snow

Madness or Magic by Justine Labalestier

A Sudden Wild Magic by Diana Wynne Jones

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen and Questin Blake

On My Way to Buy Eggs by Chih-Yuan Chen

I, Coriander by Sally Gardner

On My Way to buy Eggs by Chih-Yuan Chen

The Red Book by Barbara Lehmann

The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi

Hardboiled/Hardluck by Banana Yoshimoto

The Ring by Koji Suzuki

Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Botchan by Soseki Natsume

Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami

Don't You Have Time to Think by Richard P. Feynmann

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

The Assassin Trilogy by Robin Hobb

(And I still haven't read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke)

Comments

[nerr]

i love diana wynne jones! that one's good yeah? i'll look out for it :)