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Booklist Editors' Choice 2005 (January 2006)
Booklist compiled a list of the top books for public-library collections from their Editors' Choice selections for 2005. The list includes fiction and nonfiction titles for children, young adults, and adults, and appeared in the January 1 & 15, 2006 issue of the magazine. Booklist, v. 102, January 1 & 15, 2006. Copyright (c) 2006 by the American Library Association. Reproduced by permission.
Down the Rabbit Hole--Peter AbrahamsThe Language of Baklava--Diana Abu-JaberAfricana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 2nd Ed.--Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis GatesZorro--Isabel AllendeSharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries--Suad AmiryAntisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution--Richard S. Levy; Robert LevyThe Sea--John BanvilleHitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow--Susan Campbell BartolettiMidnight at the Dragon Cafe--Judy Fong BatesBerkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport--David Levinson; Karen ChristensenMy Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations--Mary Frances BerryGranite Baby--Lynne Bertrand; Kevin HawkesBiographical Encyclopedia of Artists--Lawrence GowingAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer--Kai Bird; Martin SherwinThe Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy--Jeanne BirdsallBlack Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia: 2nd Edition--Darlene Hine; Rosalyn Terborg-PennPuppetry: A World History--Eileen BlumenthalElectric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World--David BodanisShane Comes Home--Rinker BuckMy Mom's Having a Baby!--Dori Hillestad Butler; Carol ThompsonIt's All Right Now--Charles ChadwickMao: The Unknown Story--Jung Chang; Jon HallidayMambo Peligroso--Patricia ChaoThe Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands--Sneed B. CollardSilent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic--Marla ConeChameleon, Chameleon--Joy Cowley; Nic BishopThe Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal--Vicki Constantine CrokeWiggle--Doreen Cronin; Scott MenchinOur Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are--Frans De WaalThe Bomb: A Life--Gerard DeGrootRevenge of the Witch--Joseph Delaney; Patrick ArrasmithMelville: His World and Work--Andrew DelbancoTwins--Marcy DermanskyThe Summer We Got Saved--Pat Cunningham DevotoThe Year of Magical Thinking--Joan DidionThe March--E.L. DoctorowDeath of an Ordinary Man--Glen DuncanThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana--Umberto Eco; Geoffrey BrockEncyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States--Ilan StavansEncyclopedia of African History: Volumes 1-3--Kevin ShillingtonEncyclopedia of Disability--Gary AlbrechtEncyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity--Dinah SheltonThe Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an American Region--Burt Feintuch; David WattersThe Encyclopedia of New York State--Peter R. Eisenstadt; Laura-Eve MossEncyclopedia of Racism in the United States--Pyong Gap MinEncyclopedia of Religion: Second Edition--Lindsay JonesEncyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics--Carl MitchamEncyclopedia of Television: 2nd Ed.--Horace NewcombThe Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social, and Military History--Spencer C. TuckerOne Sunday Morning--Amy EphronThe Game of Silence--Louise ErdrichThe Painted Drum--Louise Erdrich26a: A Novel--Diana EvansFacts on File Encyclopedia of Art--Lawrence GowingInvisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives--Jeanette FarrellDivided by God: America's Church-State Problem and What We Should Do about It--Noah FeldmanThe Fifties in America--John SuperGrant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War--Charles Bracelen FloodUnderstanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict--Mitch FrankChildren of the Great Depression--Russell FreedmanThe Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence--Kristine M. Krapp; Jeff WilsonAs Simple as Snow--Gregory GallowayMemories of My Melancholy Whores--Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Edith GrossmanCarolinda Clatter!--Mordicai GersteinWillow Run--Patricia Reilly GiffTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln--Doris Kearns GoodwinMistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet--Charlotte GordonTaking Wing--Nancy Price GraffOverlord: Poems--Jorie GrahamLooking for Alaska: A Novel--John GreenThe Greenwood Library of American War Reporting--David CopelandTraction Man Is Here!--Mini GreyThe Hero Project: How We Met Our Greatest Heroes and What We Learned from Them--Robert Hatch; William HatchThe Greenstone Grail--Amanda HemingwayWinter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts--Anna Grossnickle HinesA Long Way Down--Nick HornbyPrehistoric Actual Size--Steve JenkinsOnward: A Photobiography of African American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson--Dolores JohnsonNight Fisher--R. Kikuo JohnsonHistorical Fiction: A Guide to the Genre--Sarah L. JohnsonThe Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students--Suzanne JurmainGeorge Did It--Suzanne Jurmain; Larry DayThe Hello, Goodbye Window--Norton Juster; Chris RaschkaA Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms--Paul B. Janeczko; Chris RaschkaAbsolutely, Positively Not--David LaRochelleSomebody's Daughter--Marie Myung-Ok LeeNew York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan--Jill LeporeBurning Fence: A Western Memoir of Fatherhood--Craig LesleyDay of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue--Julius LesterThe Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science--Alan LightmanSundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America--James W. LoewenInexcusable: A Novel--Chris Lynch1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus--Charles C. MannLike a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads--Greil MarcusShhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping--Julie Markes; David ParkinsEudora Welty: A Biography--Suzanne MarrsLillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels--Deborah Martinson1776--David G. McculloughThe Goat Bridge--T.M. McNallyIf You Decide to Go to the Moon--Faith McNulty; Steven KelloggThe Hunter's Moon--O.R. MellingLost in the Forest--Sue MillerOh Pure and Radiant Heart--Lydia MilletHidden Child--Isaac MillmanThe Tender Bar--J.R. MoehringerThe Diviners--Rick MoodyA Wreath for Emmett Till--Marilyn Nelson; Philippe LardyNew Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Volumes 1-6--Maryanne Cline HorowitzWe All Die Alone--Mark Newgarden; Dan NadelYou & You & You--Per Nilsson; Tara ChaceThe Jump: Sebastian Telfair and the High Stakes Business of High School Ball--Ian O'ConnorThe Bake Shop Ghost--Jacqueline K. Ogburn; Marjorie PricemanWhen Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House--Patricia O'TooleThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States--Suzanne Oboler; Deena J. GonzalezJohn Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth--Elizabeth PartridgeLuck Is Luck: Poems--Lucia PerilloCriss Cross--Lynne Rae PerkinsEncyclopedia of North American Immigration--John PowellA Changed Man--Francine ProseThe Scarecrow and His Servant--Philip Pullman; Peter BaileyMy Jim--Nancy RawlesBaghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq--RiverbendMencken: The American Iconoclast--Marion RodgersGone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage--Heather RogersMichael Rosen's Sad Book--Michael Rosen; Quentin BlakeHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince--J.K. Rowling; Mary GrandpreShalimar the Clown--Salman RushdieLast Night--James SalterBeautiful Inez--Bart SchneiderTwo Lives--Vikram SethA Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599--James ShapiroSong of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems--Joyce Sidman; Beckie PrangePrep: A Novel--Curtis SittenfeldHow the Bible Was Built--Charles Merrill Smith; James W. BennettDrums, Girls and Dangerous Pie--Jordan SonnenblickThe Center of the World--Andreas SteinhofelSinger of Souls--Adam StempleSaving Fish from Drowning--Amy TanTen Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do--Michael TougiasNo Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous--Trav S.D.Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide--Martin ReesStill Looking: Essays on American Art--John UpdikeLizette's Green Sock--Catharina ValckxEurope Central--William T. VollmannWaking Up American: Coming of Age Biculturally: First-Generation Women Reflect on Identity--Angela Jane FountasThe Glass Castle: A Memoir--Jeannette WallsReturn to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul--Scott WeidensaulI Could Do That! : Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote--Linda Arms White; Nancy CarpenterBlack Storm Comin'--Diane Lee WilsonAn Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas--Diane WilsonShow Way--Jacqueline Woodson; Hudson TalbottD.H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider--John WorthenElsewhere--Gabrielle Zevin
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