Best Fiction and Fantasy-2005
Discover the best fantasy and fiction books of 2005! Explore our curated list of top-rated titles that defined the year in magical storytelling and epic adventures.
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The Book of Flying
by Keith Miller
When Pico falls in love with one of the winged people in the City by the Sea, the orphaned young librarian embarks on a quest …
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Tumbling After
by Paul Witcover
The long-awaited second novel by Paul Witcover, acclaimed author of the remarkable Waking Beauty, is a stunning and provocative masterwork ofingenious imagination -- part-coming-of-age story, …
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Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, …
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Freddy and Fredericka
by Mark Helprin
Ridiculed by the British press, Prince of Wales Freddy and his wife, the frivolous Fredericka, are sent to colonize the barbaric land of America, during …
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Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
When master mechanic Peter Lake attempts to rob a mansion on the Upper West Side, he is caught by young Beverly Penn, the terminally ill …
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Od Magic
by Patricia A. McKillip
Possessing a unique talent for connecting with the agricultural environment, Brenden Vetch is hired as a gardener by the wizard Od, but Brenden's gifts could …
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Harrowing the Dragon
by Patricia A. McKillip
McKillip presents a book of previously uncollected short stories--full of beautiful dragons, rueful princesses, and handsome bards--all wrapped up in the finery of fairy tales.
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Glass Dragons
by Sean Mcmullen
Now in paperback--the second novel in the Moonworlds Saga, a fantasy epic of daunting skill and scope, delivered by one of Australia's leading fantasy writers.
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Vellum
by Hal Duncan
In the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch - the unkin are gathering for war. In …
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The House of Storms
by Ian R. MacLeod
To save her only son from the ravages of consumption, the great-grandmistress of the Telegraphers Guild, Alice Meynell, has made a bargain with her former …
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Breathmoss and Other Exhalations
by Ian R. MacLeod
This collection of literary short fiction combines fantasy, science fiction, and horror in vivid settings, peopled with ordinary humans with normal relationships, and the interaction …
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The Girl in the Glass
by Jeffrey Ford
The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the …
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A New Universal History of Infamy
by Rhys Hughes
From 1933 to 1934, Jorge Luis Borges, the master of fiction whose work would change the literary world, published a series of "falsifications and distortions" …