Best Books I Read in 2005

Discover the best books I read in 2005—a curated list of top reads from that year. Find your next favorite book with these must-read recommendations!

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The Algebraist

by Iain Banks

A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction. It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made …
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Under the Skin

by Michel Faber

The novel centres around a female character, Isserly, who seems to be obsessed with picking up male hitch-hikers, as long as they are muscular and …
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The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks

Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily …
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Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in …
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Look to windward

 

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Life of Pi

 

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Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt

"Steven D. Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives - how people get what they want, …
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