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)
i love diana wynne jones! that one's good yeah? i'll look out for it :)
Posted by: nerr | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 14:37