Best and Worst: 2005: Books: Best, Favorite and/or Top Lists

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    Amazon.com Customers' Favorites
  1. Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
  2. A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R.R. Martin
  3. Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Woodring Stover
  4. Chainfire: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 1 (Sword of Truth, Book 9) by Terry Goodkind
  5. Straken (High Druid of Shannara, Book 3) by Terry Brooks
  6. Labyrinth of Evil (Star Wars, Episode III Prequel Novel) by James Luceno
  7. Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
  8. Thud! A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
  9. Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
  10. Olympos by Dan Simmons
    Amazon.com Editors' Picks
  1. The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
  2. Accelerando by Charles Stross
  3. Looking for Jake: Stories by China Mieville
  4. Olympos by Dan Simmons
  5. Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
  6. Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
  7. Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11) by Robert Jordan
  8. A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin
  9. The Narrows by Alexander C. Irvine
  10. Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs Novels) by Richard K. Morgan
    Borders
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • At All Costs by David Weber
  • A Feast for Crows, A Song of Ice and Fire Series #4 by George R. R. Martin
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
  • Knife of Dreams, Wheel of Time Series #11 by Robert Jordan
  • Promise of the Witch King, Forgotten Realms Ser. Series #2 by R. A. Salvatore
  • Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
  • Straken, High Druid of Shannara Series #3 by Terry Brooks
  • Thud! by Terry Pratchett
    Matthew Cheney
    Jeffrey Ford
  • The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  • Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
  • Austerlitz by W.G. Sebold
  • From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
  • Spotted Lilly by Anna Tambour
  • Tumbling After by Paul Witcover
  • The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
  • Vellum by Hal Duncan
  • Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
  • Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan Deniro
  • McSweeny’s Quarterly Concern #13
  • The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana by Jess Nevins
  • Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas
  • Tooth And Claw by T. C. Boyle
    Paula Guran
    Rich Horton
    Greg L. Johnson
  1. Accelerando by Charles Stross
  2. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  3. Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
  4. Counting Heads by David Marusek
  5. Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder
  6. The Well Of Stars by Robert Reed
  7. Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
  8. Burn by James Patrick Kelly
  9. Godplayers by Damien Broderick
  10. Heart of Whitenesse by Howard Waldrop
    Renee A. Mallett
  1. The Town that Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey
  2. Platinum Pohl by Frederick Pohl
  3. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
  5. When Gravity Fails by George Effinger
  6. Nobody Runs Forever by Richard Stark
  7. The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
  8. Post Secret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren
  9. Deadlands by Scott A. Johnson
  10. Ghost Story by Peter Straub
    Chris Roberson
    The SF Site: Editor's Choice
  1. The House of Storms by Ian R. MacLeod
    Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  2. Accelerando by Charles Stross
  3. Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
  4. The Silences of Home by Caitlin Sweet
  5. 9-Tail Fox by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
    Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
  6. The Hounds of Avalon by Mark Chadbourn
    The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach, translated by Doryl Jensen
  7. The Ultimates 2 by Mark Millar, illustrated by Bryan Hitch
  8. Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
  9. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco, translated by Geoffrey Brock
    Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
  10. Life by Gwyneth Jones

    The Very Near Misses and Other Honourable Mentions:
    Burn by James Patrick Kelly
    Counting Heads by David Marusek
    Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder
    Thud! by Terry Pratchett
    Trash Sex Magic by Jennifer Stevenson
    Air by Geoff Ryman
    Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson
    Ravenor Returned by Dan Abnett
    In Search of Myths and Heroes by Michael Wood
    Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp edited by Mark L. Olson

    The SF Site: Reader's Choice
  1. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  2. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
  3. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
  4. Accelerando by Charles Stross
  5. Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
  6. The Warrior-Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
  7. Thud! by Terry Pratchett
  8. Looking for Jake by China Miéville
  9. River of Gods by Ian McDonald
    Mélusine by Sarah Monette
    Olympos by Dan Simmons
  10. Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold
    Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

    Near Misses and Honourable Mentions:
    The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
    Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip
    Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
    Crystal Soldier by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
    Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
    Designated Targets by John Birmingham
    Godslayer by Jacqueline Carey
    Burn by James Patrick Kelly
    The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod
    Fledgling by Octavia Butler
    Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
    Counting Heads by David Marusek
    A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park

    Abigail Nussbaum
  • Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • Beasts by John Crowley
  • Grendel by John Gardner
  • The Kindly Ones: The Sandman, Volume 9 by Neil Gaiman and Marc Hempel
  • The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
  • Mortals by Norman Rush
  • Old School by Tobias Wolff
  • Wise Children by Angela Carter
    Kelly Shaw
  1. A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
  2. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
  3. Vellum by Hal Duncan
  4. Tumbling After by Paul Witcover
  5. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  6. The Cosmology of the Wider World by Jeffrey Ford
  7. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  8. To Charles Fort, With Love by Caitlin R. Kiernan
  9. Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
  10. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes
  11. In the Palace of Repose by Holly Phillips
    Jonathan Strahan
  1. Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link
  2. Mister Boots, Carol Emshwiller
  3. Laughin' Boy, Bradley Denton
  4. Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
  5. Accelerando, Charles Stross
  6. The Girl in the Glass, Jeffrey Ford
  7. Thud!, Terry Pratchett
  8. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow
  9. Heart of Whitenesse, Howard Waldrop
  10. Rocket Science, Jay Lake
    Andy Wolverton
  • A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
  • The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
  • November Mourns by Tom Piccirili
  • Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
  • Tiger Eye by Marjorie M. Liu
  • The Closers by Michael Connelly
  • Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
  • The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
  • The Good House by Tananarive Due
  • My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
  • Declare by Tim Powers
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) by Susanna Clarke
  • Tainaron (2004) by Leena Krohn
  • Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
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Best and Worst: 2004: Books: Individual Best/Favorite Lists