Books of 2005

January/05
Forest House - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan - Sophie Kinsella
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
Wild Geese - Martha Ostenso
Barometer Rising - Hugh MacLennan
The Double Hook - Sheila Watson
The Captive - Mary Rowlandson
Scarlet Letter - Nathanial Hawthorne
The Cat Who Went up the Creek - Lilian Jackson Braun
His Bright Light - Danielle Steel
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler

February/05
Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
Princess in the Spotlight - Meg Cabot
A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
My Invented Country - Isabel Allende
Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
The Kiss - Kathryn Harrison
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Green Grass, Running Water - Thomas King

March/05
Icefields - Thomas Wharton
A Bend in the Road - Nicholas Sparks
Weird Sister - Kate Pullinger
Shampoo Planet - Douglas Coupland
The Rock Orchard - Paula Wall
The Hippopatumus Marsh - Pauline Gedge
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat - Lilian Jackson Braun
Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - James Patterson
The Cat Who Sang for the Birds - Lilian Jackson Braun

April/05
The White Bone - Barbara Gowdy
The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
Sam's Letters to Jennifer - James Patterson
Vinegar Hill - A. Manette Ansay
Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
Ya Yas in Bloom - Rebecca Wells
Here on Earth - Alice Hoffman
Jewel - Bret Lott
Delusions of Grandma - Carrie Fisher
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie - Jean Rhys
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

May/05
Nights in Rodanthe - Nicholas Sparks
Bringing out the Dead - Joe Connelly
Midwives - Chris Bohjalon
While I was Gone - Sue Miller
Paradise - Toni Morrison
The Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo
The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
Letters to my Husband - Fern Field Brooks
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Cat who Talked to Ghosts - Lilian Jackson Braun
Baker Towers - Jennifer Haigh
On Green Dolphin Street - Sebastian Faulks
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
From Bruised Fell - Jane Finlay-Young
City of Masks - Mary Hoffman
Princess in Love - Meg Cabot
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants - Ann Brahares

June/05
City of Stars - Mary Hoffman
The Cat and Curmudgeon - Cleveland Amory
East of the Moutains - David Guterson
Illumination Night - Alice Hoffman
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon - Billie Letts
Cinderella Man - Marc Cerasini
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood - Ann Brashares
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
July Issue of O! Magazine - Oprah Winfrey
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
River Angel - A. Manette Ansay
The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle
A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

July/05
One Thousand White Women: The Diary of May Dodd - Jim Fergus
My Century - Gunter Grass
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Bright Forever - Lee Martin
Heave - Christy Ann Conlin
Flesh and Blood - Michael Cunningham
Jack, the Giant Killer - Charles de Lint
Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
River, Cross my Heart - Breena Clarke
The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve
The Same River Twice - Alice Walker
August O! Magazine - Oprah Winfrey
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down - David Adam Richards
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
A Fairly Conventional Woman - Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Fortune's Rock - Anita Shreve
Shopaholic and Sister - Sophie Kinsella

August/05
Crazy Ladies - Michael Lee West
Lucid Stars - Andrea Barrett
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen
River of the Brokenhearted - David Adams Richards
Cape Light - Thomas Kinkade
Wifey - Judy Blume
All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
Short and Tall Tales - Lilian Jackson Braun
Seventh Heaven - Alice Hoffman
Witch Hill - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
Mister Sandman - Barbara Gowdy
Beach Girls - Luanne Rice
Resistance - Anita Shreve
Subterranean - James Rollins
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
Lady of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Bear Went Over the Mountain - William Kotzwinkle

September/05
Home Song - Thomas Kinkade
Cutting Through - Joan Hohl
Amazonia - James Rollins
Inge and Mira - Marianne Fredricksson
Bridget Jone's Diary - Helen Fielding
Summer's Child - Luanne Rice
The Frog King - Adam Davies
Cabbagetown - Hugh Garner
True to Form - Elizabeth Berg
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - Gregory Maguire

October/05
Zel - Donna Jo Napoli
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
King's Test - Margaret Weis
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
A Strange Manuscrpt Found in a Copper Cylinder - James De Mille
Guinivere - Sharan Newman
Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne-Jones
Where or When - Anita Shreve
The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town - Stephen Leacock

November/05
The Romantic - Barbara Gowdy
Sylvanus Now - Donna Morrissey
Silver Bells - Luanne Rice
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Left Behind -Tim LeHaye
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews

December/05
Amy and Isabelle - Elizabeth Strout
Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
October O! Magazine - Oprah Winfrey
A Little Stranger - Kate Pullinger
A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
Saints of Big Harbour - Lynn Coady
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Lucky - Alice Sebold
The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Other Boelyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
A Short History of Natives in Canada - Thomas King