december 2005 books

( 28 texts + a couple of comics )

2005 book recommendations

I read a whole lot of good stuff last year, and I owe most of it to you people who post about books. Thank you!

My top ten reasonably new books for 2005, in no particular order:

• A Paradigm of Earth, Candas Jane Dorsey.


• The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Minister Faust.


• In the Country of the Blind, Michael Flynn.


• A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin.


• Heat of Fusion and Other Stories, John M. Ford.


• Peeps, Scott Westerfeld.


• Princess Academy, Shannon Hale.


• Air, Geoff Ryman.


• A Rumor of Gems, Ellen Steiber.


• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell.

( Recommended nonfiction )

( Recommended comics )

( Recommended older books )