San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year2005

Given by San Francisco Chronicle

Other Names: San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of the Year
128 Works 212,915 Books 5,493 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Biography (6), Essay/Criticism (19), Fiction (598), Fiction/Poetry (108), Historical Fiction (3), History (15), Journalism/nonfiction (9), Memoir (16), Non-fiction (2), Nonficion (5), Nonfiction (539), Science Fiction (1), Short stories (19), No Category (151)
Years:
All, 2023 (14), 2022 (27), 2021 (15), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2016 (97), 2015 (94), 2014 (100), 2013 (100), 2012 (99), 2011 (99), 2010 (99), 2009 (100), 2008 (100), 2007 (128), 2006 (121), 2005 (128), 2004 (84), 2003 (64)
WorkCategoryYear
Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio
Fiction2005
War by Candlelight by Daniel Alarcón
Fiction2005
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Fiction2005
The History of Vegas by Jodi Angel
Fiction2005
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
Fiction2005
When It Burned to the Ground: A Novel by Yolanda Barnes
Fiction2005
Follies: New Stories by Ann Beattie
Fiction2005
The Stone That the Builder Refused by Madison Smartt Bell
Fiction2005
Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender
Fiction2005
Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths by John Berger
Fiction2005
God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories by Tom Bissell
Fiction2005
Fascination by William Boyd
Fiction2005
Tooth and Claw: and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle
Fiction2005
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz
Fiction2005
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Fiction2005
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
Fiction2005
Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
Fiction2005
The March by E. L. Doctorow
Fiction2005
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Fiction2005
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Fiction2005
A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
Fiction2005
The Great Inland Sea by David Francis
Fiction2005
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fiction2005
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Fiction2005
House of Thieves by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Fiction2005
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2005
Matches by Alan Kaufman
Fiction2005
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Fiction2005
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Fiction2005
Angry Black White Boy: A Novel by Adam Mansbach
Fiction2005
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Fiction2005
San Francisco Noir by Peter Maravelis
Fiction2005
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Fiction2005
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Fiction2005
Crawl Space: A Novel by Edie Meidav
Fiction2005
The Diviners by Rick Moody
Fiction2005
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Fiction2005
The Magic Keys by Albert Murray
Fiction2005
The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan
Fiction2005
The Sound of Blue by Holly Payne
Fiction2005
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
Fiction2005
A Changed Man by Francine Prose
Fiction2005
The Devil's Wind by Richard Rayner
Fiction2005
Big Cats: Stories by Holiday Reinhorn
Fiction2005
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Fiction2005
Last Night by James Salter
Fiction2005
Responsible Men: A Novel by Edward Schwarzschild
Fiction2005
Collected Stories by Carol Shields
Fiction2005
No Direction Home by Marisa Silver
Fiction2005
Carnivore Diet: A Novel by Julia Slavin
Fiction2005
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Fiction2005
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
Fiction2005
Blinding Light by Paul Theroux
Fiction2005
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
Fiction2005
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Fiction2005
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Fiction2005
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Fiction2005
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li
Fiction2005
American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting by Steven Biel
Nonficion2005
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman
Nonficion2005
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman
Nonficion2005
Against depression by Peter D. Kramer
Nonficion2005
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
Nonficion2005
Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story by Said Hyder Akbar
Nonfiction2005
Epileptic by David B.
Nonfiction2005
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
Nonfiction2005
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe
Nonfiction2005
Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by Marla Cone
Nonfiction2005
Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies by Greg Critser
Nonfiction2005
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis M. Dabney
Nonfiction2005
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
Nonfiction2005
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch
Nonfiction2005
Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco
Nonfiction2005
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond
Nonfiction2005
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq by Larry Diamond
Nonfiction2005
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Nonfiction2005
Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life by David Ewing Duncan
Nonfiction2005
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe by Paula Fox
Nonfiction2005
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 by Philip L. Fradkin
Nonfiction2005
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) by John Hope Franklin
Nonfiction2005
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin
Nonfiction2005
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page by Lynn Freed
Nonfiction2005
Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray
Nonfiction2005
Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America by Rose Castillo Guilbault
Nonfiction2005
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
Nonfiction2005
Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood by Bill Hayes
Nonfiction2005
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild
Nonfiction2005
The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder by Rachel Howard
Nonfiction2005
Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth by John Hubner
Nonfiction2005
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
Nonfiction2005
Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan
Nonfiction2005
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
Nonfiction2005
And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life by Sharon R. Kaufman
Nonfiction2005
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
Nonfiction2005
My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder
Nonfiction2005
Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained by August Kleinzahler
Nonfiction2005
Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers by Mark Klett
Nonfiction2005
1776 by David McCullough
Nonfiction2005
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Nonfiction2005
Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq by Steve Mumford
Nonfiction2005
Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile by Daniel Nettle
Nonfiction2005
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon
Nonfiction2005
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Nonfiction2005
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Nonfiction2005
Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families by Pamela Paul
Nonfiction2005
New Art City by Jed Perl
Nonfiction2005
California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown by Ethan Rarick
Nonfiction2005
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
Nonfiction2005
San Francisco Noir by Nathaniel Rich
Nonfiction2005
At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention by David Rieff
Nonfiction2005
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Nonfiction2005
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light by Mort Rosenblum
Nonfiction2005
The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death by Anneli Rufus
Nonfiction2005
Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle
Nonfiction2005
Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald
Nonfiction2005
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Nonfiction2005
Children At War by P. W. Singer
Nonfiction2005
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra by Jordan Fisher Smith
Nonfiction2005
Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times by Kevin Smokler
Nonfiction2005
Dictionary Days by Ilan Stavans
Nonfiction2005
The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
Nonfiction2005
The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood by David Thomson
Nonfiction2005
February House by Sherill Tippins
Nonfiction2005
A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law by Mark Tushnet
Nonfiction2005
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner
Nonfiction2005
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Nonfiction2005
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber by Stephen Yafa
Nonfiction2005
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
2005

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