Books Ive read in 2005
Discover a curated list of the best books read in 2005, featuring literary gems like *Life of Pi*, *Middlesex*, and *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*. Explore a diverse mix of fiction and unforgettable picks from this year's reading journey.
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Independent People
by Halldor Laxness
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
In an fantasy Britain, someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, must track down the criminal.
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Coming Home
by Rosamunde Pilcher
Judith Dunbar comes of age while confronting her feelings about love and sadness and journeying back to her childhood home.
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The Absence of Nectar
by Kathy Hepinstall
Alice is a precocious eleven-year-old growing up in rural East Texas with one wish on her mind: get rid of Simon Jester. Simon is the man who saved her mother from drowning. ... Alice and her saintly brother become convinced that Simon intends to poison them. Their mother, Megs getlls her children that they have wild imaginations. Until she come to kiss them one night and, instead of her usual endearments, whispers a single word: Run ... taken from cover.
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Cloud of Sparrows
by Takashi Matsuoka
In Japan in 1861, Lord Genji, a young nobleman with a gift for prophecy, joins forces with two Christian missionaries, a mysterious geisha, and a legendary swordsman to embark on a harrowing odyssey toward an ultimate battle.
