Fiction read during 2005
Fifty books in a year? Bah. Of course, my kids are grown up, my yard’s a mess, and I have no social life.
Here’s a list of the books I read last year, excluding nonfiction and short stories.
- Anderson: The Broken Sword
- Anderson: Three Hearts and Three Lions
- Baker: The Anvil of the World
- Beagle: The Last Unicorn
- Bear: Songs of Earth and Power
- Bear: Darwin’s Radio
- Berg: Transformation
- Berg: Revelation
- Berg: Restoration
- Berg: Son of Avonar
- Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
- Bray: Devlin’s Luck
- Briggs: The Hob’s Bargain
- Brooks: The Sword of Shannara
- Brust and Bull: Freedom and Necessity
- Butcher: Fool Moon
- Carey: Banewreaker
- Carmody: Obernewtyn
- Carter: Heros and Villains
- Carter: The Fortunate Fall
- Coe: Rules of Ascension
- Cook: The Tower of Fear
- Cutter: Paper Mage
- Dick: A Scanner Darkly
- Dunkel: The Hollow Kingdom
- Edgerton: Child of Saturn
- Elliott: King’s Dragon
- Fallon: The Lion of Sennet
- Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
- Ford: The Last Hot Time
- Gaiman: Stardust
- Gilligan: The Silken Shroud
- Gilman: Staying Dead
- Glass: Daughter of Exile
- Haden Elgin: Native Tongue
- Haden Elgin: The Ozark Trilogy
- Hambly: Fever Season
- Hambly: Bride of the Rat God*
- Hendee: Dhampir
- Hetley: The Summer Country
- Hobb: Royal Assassin
- Holdstock: Mythago Wood
- Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Karr: Frost Flower and Thorn
- Keyes: The Briar King
- Kirstein: The Steerswoman’s Road
- Kirstein: The Lost Steersman
- Kirstein: The Language of Power
- Klasky: Season of Sacrifice
- Kritzer: Turning the Storm
- Kushner: Swordspoint
- Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
- Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan
- Le Guin: The Word for World is Forest
- Lisle: Vincalis the Agitator
- Marks: Fire Logic
- Marks: The Moonbane Mage
- Marley: The Maquisarde
- Martin: Dying of the Light
- McGarry: Illumination
- McHugh: China Mountain Zhang
- McHugh: Mission Child
- McIntyre: The Moon and the Sun
- McKee Charnas: The Furies
- McKee Charnas: The Conqueror’s Child
- McKillip: Riddle of Stars (Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy)
- McKillip: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
- McKinley: Rose Daughter
- McMaster Bujold: The Hallowed Hunt
- Micklem: Firethorn
- Mieville: The Scar
- Morrison: Song of Solomon
- Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress
- Nix: Sabriel
- Piercy: He, She, and It
- Pratchett: Equal Rites
- Pratchett: Lords and Ladies
- Pratchett: Night Watch
- Pratchett: The Fifth Element
- Rasmussen: The Labyrinth Gate
- Roberson: Sword Dancer
- Robinson: Forty Signs of Rain
- Salmonson: The Swordswoman
- Scott: Dreaming Metal
- Shetterly: Chimera
- Spencer: Tainted Trail
- Starhawk: The Fifth Sacred Thing
- Stewart: Earth Abides
- Stross: Singularity Sky
- Sturgeon: Venus Plus X
- Traviss: City of Pearl
- Traviss: Crossing the Line
- Van Vogt: Slan
- Vance: Lyonesse
- Vance: Madouc
- Wade Wellman: The Hanging Stones
- Wells: Death of the Necromancer
- Wells: The Wizard Hunters
- Welty: The Optimist’s Daughter
- West: Hunter’s Oath
- Wilhelm: The Dark Door
- Wrede and Stevermer: Sorcery and Cecelia
- Wrede: Snow White and Red Rose
- Wrede: The Raven Ring
- Wright: Native Son
- Wynne Jones: A Sudden Wild Magic
- Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock
- Wynne Jones: Howl’s Moving Castle
- Yolen: The Books of Great Alta
