Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books2005

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66 Works 123,758 Books 3,214 Reviews ½ 3.8
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All, Arts and Literature (89), Best of the Year Title (1), Biography (204), Biography & Memoir (8), Booklist Editor's Choice (2), Business (1), Fiction (554), Genre Fiction (19), Geography & Travel (4), Graphic Novels for Adults (1), Health & Medicine (11), Health and Medicine (2), History (139), History & Travel (10), Illus: Fred Marcellino (1), Memoir (2), Nonfiction (1), Philosophy (1), Philosophy and Psychology (1), Poetry (41), Reference Sources (2), Religion (5), Science (63), Science & Technology (15), Social Sciences (169), Technology (1), Top of the List (7), Travel (2), No Category (267)
Years:
All, 2023 (61), 2022 (62), 2021 (66), 2020 (65), 2019 (68), 2018 (58), 2017 (65), 2016 (60), 2015 (67), 2014 (63), 2013 (65), 2012 (58), 2011 (65), 2010 (66), 2009 (58), 2008 (66), 2007 (66), 2006 (67), 2005 (66), 2004 (61), 2003 (62), 2002 (68), 2001 (62), 2000 (69), 1999 (66), 1993 (1), 1990 (1), 1990 ed. (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Puppetry: A World History by Eileen Blumenthal
Arts and Literature2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Arts and Literature2005
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus
Arts and Literature2005
We All Die Alone by Mark Newgarden
Arts and Literature2005
No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous by Trav S.D.
Arts and Literature2005
How the Bible Was Built by Charles Merrill Smith
Arts and Literature2005
Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John Updike
Arts and Literature2005
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States, Volume 3 by Suzanne Oboler
Best of the Year Title2005
The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber
Biography2005
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry
Biography2005
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
Biography2005
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Biography2005
Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco
Biography2005
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet by Charlotte Gordon
Biography2005
Burning Fence: A Western Memoir of Fatherhood by Craig Lesley
Biography2005
Eudora Welty: A Biography by Suzanne Marrs
Biography2005
Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels by Deborah Martinson
Biography2005
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
Biography2005
When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O'Toole
Biography2005
Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Biography2005
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Biography2005
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James S. Shapiro
Biography2005
D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen
Biography2005
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Fiction2005
The Sea by John Banville
Fiction2005
It's All Right Now: A Novel by Charles Chadwick
Fiction2005
Mambo Peligroso: A Novel by Patricia Chao
Fiction2005
The March by E. L. Doctorow
Fiction2005
Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan
Fiction2005
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Fiction2005
One Sunday Morning by Amy Ephron
Fiction2005
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2005
26a by Diana Evans
Fiction2005
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fiction2005
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Fiction2005
The Goat Bridge: A Novel (Sweetwater Fiction: Originals) by T. M. McNally
Fiction2005
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
Fiction2005
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
Fiction2005
The Diviners by Rick Moody
Fiction2005
A Changed Man by Francine Prose
Fiction2005
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Fiction2005
Last Night by James Salter
Fiction2005
Beautiful Inez: A Novel by Bart Schneider
Fiction2005
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Fiction2005
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Fiction2005
Shane Comes Home by Rinker Buck
History2005
Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It by Noah Feldman
History2005
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood
History2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
History2005
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore
History2005
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
History2005
1776 by David McCullough
History2005
Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do by Michael J. Tougias
History2005
Overlord: Poems by Jorie Graham
Poetry2005
Luck Is Luck: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Lucia Perillo
Poetry2005
The Bomb: A Life by Gerard J. De Groot
Science2005
The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers by Alan Lightman
Science2005
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul by Scott Weidensaul
Science2005
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, And the Fight for Seadrift, Texas by Diane Wilson
Science2005
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry
Social Sciences2005
Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by Marla Cone
Social Sciences2005
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
Social Sciences2005
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers
Social Sciences2005
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal
Social Sciences2005
Looking for Alaska by John Green
2005
Black Storm Comin' by Diane Lee Wilson
2005

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