2005 Year-Ender Book Recommendations

[korvac]

Some might say it's a tad early, but I have some free time and nothing else to talk about.

Herein you will find a list of everything I read this year that I can heartily recommend to everyone. I have emboldened the cream of the crop. I read a lot of good non-genre fiction this year, it seems.

The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler (nonfiction)
The Wizard - Gene Wolfe
The Complete Bone - Jeff Smith
An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Oracle Night - Paul Auster
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
Exultant - Stephen Baxter
Venus - Ben Bova
Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel (nonfiction)
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (nonfiction)
Set This House in Order - Matt Ruff
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence (nonfiction)
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
Twisty Little Passages - Nick Montfort (nonfiction)
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
The Third World War - General Sir John Hackett (semi-nonfiction)
The Double Helix - James Watson (nonfiction)
Collapse - Jared Diamond (nonfiction)
Olympos - Dan Simmons
For Want of a Nail - Robert Sobel (semi-nonfiction)
The Demon in the Freezer - Richard Preston (nonfiction)
Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Bloodsucking Fiends - Christopher Moore
and lastly
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susannah Clarke

Most of the really good books came earlier in the year...