2005 Reading List - Part II

Explore the second part of our 2005 Reading List featuring top book recommendations. Discover must-read titles and expand your literary horizons with this curated collection.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared M. Diamond

The fates of human societies.
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Memorial Day

by Vince Flynn

CIA operative Mitch Rapp has one week to derail a terrorist attack on Washington, D.C., during the unveiling of the World War II memorial.
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Hour Game

by David Baldacci

He's copying famous serial killers. And the HOUR GAME has just begun... A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple …
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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

The biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California.
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The Cider House Rules

by John Irving

Wilbur Larch, a physician, philosopher, obstetrician, and abortionist at St. Cloud's orphanage struggles through his relationship with his apprentice and surrogate son, Homer Wells.
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Whiteout

 

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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Congo diary is an enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism.
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Bel canto

 

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Annals of the Former World

by John McPhee

The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his …
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Five Past Midnight

by James Stewart Thayer

Escaping from Germany's Colditz Castle where he was being held as a prisoner of war, Captain Jack Cray fights his way to Berlin in April …
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Map of Bones

by James Rollins

The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date—a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to …
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Crimes Against Nature

by Robert Francis Kennedy

A case study of the link between money and political power charges the Bush administration with compromising mainstream America through its proposed changes to environmental …
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The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

A group of expatriates travel from Paris to the Pamplona bullfights.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

A book about love and courage and decency and glory. It is written with a wisdom that washes the mind and cools it. With an …
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Night Fall

by Nelson DeMille

A John Corey Novel On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bob Mitchell and Janet Whitney conduct their illicit love affair in front of a …
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The Twelfth Card

by Jeffery Deaver

Killing machine Thompson Boyd is after high school student Geneva Settle, and it's up to detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee to figure out why. …
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Path Between The Seas

by David McCullough

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was …