KIRKUS REVIEWS - Best Books of 2005

Kirkus Reviews is one of the review journals used by MCPL to choose new books.

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Best Mysteries

Box, C. J. - Out of Range
Garcia-Roza, Luis Alfredo - A Window in Copacabana
Kerley, Jack - The Death Collectors
King, Laurie R. - Locked Rooms
Leon, Donna - Blood from a Stone
McCall Smith, Alexander - In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Robotham, Michael - Suspect
Rusch, Sheldon - For Edgar
Spencer-Fleming, Julia - To Darkness and to Death
Swain, James - Mr. Lucky

 

Best Novels

Coupland, Douglas - Eleanor Rigby
Cunningham, Michael - Specimen Days
Doctorow, E. L. - The March
Ellis, Bret Easton - Lunar Park
Gaitskell, Mary - Veronica
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore
Rushdie, Salman - Shalimar the Clown
Smith, Zadie - On Beauty
Wolff, Maritta - Sudden Rain

 

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy


Baker, Kage - The Children of the Company
Eschbach, Andreas - The Carpet Makers
Gemmell, David - Lord of the Silver Bow
Harrison, M. John - Viriconium
MacLeod, Ken - Learning the World: A Scientific Romance
Modesitt, L. E., Jr. - The Eternity Artifact
Reed, Robert - The Well of Stars
Robson, Justina - Silver Screen
Watson, Jules - The White Mare: The Dalraida Triolgy, Book One
Wright, John C - Orphans of Chaos

Click here to see the Kirkus Best Non-fiction of 2005