Presenting Rebecca's Book Awards for 2005!
I've looked very carefully over the lists of books for 2005 and handed out the following awards. To keep the awards from getting repetative, the rule is that no book can win twice. For example, Mr. Potter really should have won for Worst School-Required, but it had already won for Overall Worst and couldn't win again. I wrote comments for those I felt mostly strongly about. I read so many Holocaust-related books this year because I took an English courge on Literature of the Holocaust, which required me to read several books on it and convinced me to read several more.
Award-Winning Books of 2005.
Overall Best of 2005: The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant.
Overall Best Runner-Up: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares.
Overall Worst of 2005: Mr. Potter, by Jamaica Kincaid.
Overall Worst Runner-Up: Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih.
Best Holocaust Fictional Book: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli.
Best Holocaust Fictional Book Runner-Up: Auschwitz, by Pascal Croci.
Worst Holocaust Fictional Book: Night of the Broken Glass, by Peter Broner.
Worst Holocaust Fictional Book Runner-Up: The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski.
Best Holocaust Nonfictional Book: Hitler Youth, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Best Holocaust Nonfictional Book Runner-Up: Maus, by Art Spiegelman.
Best School-Required Book: Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville.
Best School-Required Book Runner-Up: The Contrast, by Royall Tyler.
Worst School-Required Book: The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper.
Worst School-Required Book Runner-Up: The Black Album, by Hanif Kureishi.
Most Suspenseful Book: Mary Rose, by JM Barrie.
Most Suspenseful Book Runner-Up: The She, by Carol Plum-Ucci.
Best Biography: Shirley Temple: American Princess, by Anne Edwards.
Worst Biography: JM Barrie, by FJ Harvey Darton.
Most Anticipated Book of 2005: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling.
Most Anticipated Runner-Up: A Sporting Proposition, by James Aldridge.
Breakout Author of 2005: Ann Brashares.
And here's the complete round-up for 2005. There are 46 altogether, arranged by author's last name. I wish I had read more.
All Books of 2005.
1. A Sporting Proposition, by James Aldridge.
2. The Admirable Chricton, by JM Barrie.
3. Mary Rose, by JM Barrie.
4. Sentimental Tommy, by JM Barrie.
5. Tommy and Grizel, by JM Barrie.
6. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
7. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares.
8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares.
9. Night of the Broken Glass, by Peter Broner.
10. Images From the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology, by Jean E. Brown, Elaine C. Stephens, and Janet E. Rubin.
11. The Goats, by Brock Cole.
12. The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper.
13. Auschwitz, by Pascal Croci.
14. JM Barrie, by FJ Harvey Darton.
15. The War Against the Jews: 1939-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz.
16. The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant.
17. Shirley Temple: American Princess, by Anne Edwards.
18. Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows, by George Eisen.
19. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
20. Olive's Ocean, by Kevin Henkes.
21. Mr. Potter, by Jamaica Kincaid.
22. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, by EL Konigsburg.
23. The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski.
24. The Black Album, by Hanif Kureishi.
25. Anastasia at This Address, by Lois Lowry.
26. The Silent Boy, by Lois Lowry.
27. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire.
28. Baby-Sitters' Summer Vacation, by Ann M. Martin.
29. Kristy's Mystery Admirer, by Ann M. Martin.
30. The Mystery at Claudia's House, by Ann M. Martin.
31. Snowbound, by Ann M. Martin.
32. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville.
33. The First Year: A Retirement Journal, by John Mosedale.
34. Crossing the River, by Caryl Phillips.
35. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling.
36. Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin, by Susan Goldman Rubin.
37. Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih.
38. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink.
39. Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, by Art Spiegelman.
40. Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman.
41. Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli.
42. The Contrast, by Royall Tyler.
43. The She, by Carol Plum-Ucci.
44. Mila 18, by Leon Uris.
45. Inventing Wonderland: Victorian Childhood and Fantasty, by Jackie Wullschlager.
46. Jacob Riis, by Bonnie Yochelsem.
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