2005 book recommendations

[jinian]

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.

Nonfiction:
Mongo: Adventures in Trash, Ted Botha.
The Emperor of Scent, Chandler Burr.
The Art of Being a Parasite, Claude Combes.
Bitten, Pamela Nagani.


Comics:
Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan et al.
Paradise Kiss, Ai Yazawa.
Fruits Basket, Natsuki Takaya.
Amy Unbounded, Rachel Hartman.


Older books:
The Changeling Sea, Patricia McKillip.
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson.
Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand.
Cotillion, Georgette Heyer.
Nobody's Son, Sean Stewart.
Thursday, Catherine Storr.
Hellspark, Janet Kagan.