This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2005.
Events February 25 – Canada Reads selects Rockbound by Frank Parker Day as the novel to be read across the nation. March 26 – The classic U.K. science fiction series Doctor Who returns to television with a script by Russell T Davies, the executive producer. April 23 – The Grande Bibliothèque at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is officially opened. It actually opens on April 30. June 13 – The poet Dannie Abse is injured and his wife Joan killed in an accident on the M4 in South Wales.BBC News – "Poet tells of wife's crash death", 26 July 2006. Accessed 16 November 2014 August 15 – An integrated National Library of Norway opens to readers in Oslo for the first time.
New books
Fiction Tariq Ali – A Sultan in Palermo Rajaa Alsanea – Girls of Riyadh (بنات الرياض, Banat al-Riyadh) Avi – Never Mind Tash Aw – The Harmony Silk Factory Steve Aylett – Lint Doreen Baingana – Tropical Fish (short stories) John Banville – The Sea Sebastian Barry – A Long Long Way Nelson Bond – Other Worlds Than Ours Dionne Brand – What We All Long For Orson Scott Card Magic Street Shadow of the Giant Cormac McCarthy – No Country for Old Men Rita Chowdhury – Deo Langkhui Wendy Coakley-Thompson – What You Won't Do for Love Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception Bernard Cornwell – The Pale Horseman Colin Cotterill – Thirty-Three Teeth Robert Crais – The Forgotten Man Mitch Cullin – A Slight Trick of the Mind Michael Cunningham – Specimen Days Rana Dasgupta – Tokyo Cancelled Lindsey Davis – See Delphi and Die Abha Dawesar – Babyji L. Sprague de Camp – Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp Troy Denning The Joiner King The Swarm War The Unseen Queen Bret Easton Ellis – Lunar Park Alicia Erian – Towelhead Steve Erickson – Our Ecstatic Days Sebastian Faulks – Human Traces Amanda Filipacchi – Love Creeps Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Nicci French – Catch Me When I Fall Gayleen Froese – Touch Cornelia Funke – Inkspell David Gibbins – Atlantis Kate Grenville – The Secret River (Melbourne) Abdulrazak Gurnah – Desertion Margaret Peterson Haddix – Among the Enemy Joanne Harris – Gentlemen & Players Carl Hiaasen – Flush Charlie Higson – SilverFin Peter Hobbs – The Short Day Dying John Irving – Until I Find You Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go Uzodinma Iweala – Beasts of No Nation Raymond Khoury – The Last Templar Stephen King – The Colorado Kid Dean Koontz – Velocity Elizabeth Kostova – The Historian Sharon Krum – The Thing About Jane Spring Stieg Larsson – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Marina Lewycka – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Yiyun Li – A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short stories) James Luceno Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader Labyrinth of Evil Mike McCormack – Notes from a Coma Ian McEwan – Saturday Elizabeth McKenzie – Stop That Girl Kevin MacNeil – The Stornoway Way Gregory Maguire – Son of a Witch Gabriel García Márquez – Memories of My Melancholy Whores Stephenie Meyer – Twilight David Michaels – Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda Robert Muchamore Maximum Security The Killing Péter Nádas – Parallel Stories Garth Nix – Drowned Wednesday Chuck Palahniuk – Haunted Christopher Paolini – Eldest Robert B. Parker – School Days Ruth Rendell – End in Tears Salman Rushdie – Shalimar the Clown Darren Shan – Lord Loss (first of The Demonata series) Zadie Smith – On Beauty Wesley Stace – Misfortune Olen Steinhauer – 36 Yalta Boulevard Matthew Stover – Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Thomas Sullivan – Second Soul Jean-François Susbielle – La Morsure du dragon Vikas Swarup – Q & A Rupert Thomson – Divided Kingdom Harry Turtledove (editor) – The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp Andrew Vachss – Two Trains Running Catherynne M. Valente – Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams Michal Viewegh – Lekce tvůrčího psaní Narayan Wagle – Palpasa Cafe (पल्पसा क्याफे) David Weber – At All Costs Samantha Weinberg – The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel Kirby Wright – Punahou Blues Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
Children and young people David Almond – ClayHahn 2015, p. 21 Charlie Jane Anders – Choir Boy Lysa Divine -Drama High Jackie French – They Came on Viking Ships Jonathon Scott Fuqua – King of the Pygmies John Green – Looking for AlaskaHahn 2015, p. 246 Charlie Higson – SilverFinHahn 2015, p. 274 Julius Lester – The Old African Claire and Monte Montgomery - Hubert Invents the Wheel Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors Jane O'Connor – Fancy Nancy (first in a series of over 70 books) Margie Palatini (with Barry Moser) – The Three Silly Billies Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson – And Tango Makes Three Philip Reeve – Infernal DevicesHahn 2015, p. 492 Rick Riordan – The Lightning ThiefHahn 2015, p. 449 J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceHahn 2015, p. 264-265 Lemony Snicket – The Penultimate Peril Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin Jonathan Stroud – Ptolemy's GateHahn 2015, p. 557 Scott Westerfeld – Uglies (first in the Uglies series of four books) Markus Zusak – The Book ThiefHahn 2015, p. 652
Drama Catherine Filloux – Lemkin's House debbie tucker green stoning mary generations Oleg Kagan – The Black Hat Carlos Lacamara – Nowhere on the Border Peter Morris – Guardians Vern Thiessen – Shakespeare's Will Laura Wade Colder Than Here Breathing Corpses Vincent Woods – A Cry from Heaven
Poetry
Carol Ann Duffy – Rapture
Non-fiction Matthew Bortolin – The Dharma of Star Wars Edwin Bryant – Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history Francis Chalifour – AfterGoodreads, After, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-23. Jung Chang & Jon Halliday – Mao: The Unknown Story Theodore Dalrymple – Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses Michel Déon – Horseman, Pass By! (Cavalier, passe ton chemin!) Jared Diamond – Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Joan Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking Robert Fisk – The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Randy Grim – Miracle Dog John Grogan – Marley & Me Michael Gross – 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building James Whitney Hicks – 50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health Adam Hochschild – Bury the Chains Tom Holland – Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West Tony Judt – Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne – Blue Ocean Strategy Lawrence M. Krauss – Hiding in the Mirror Mark Levin – Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America Alexander Masters – Stuart: A Life Backwards Azadeh Moaveni – Lipstick Jihad Peter C. Newman – The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister Lisa Randall – Warped Passages Paul A. Robinson – Queer Wars Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn – Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing James S. Shapiro – 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare Masamune Shirow – Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost David Southwell – Secrets and Lies James B. Stewart – DisneyWar
Films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Oliver Twist Pride & Prejudice Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Deaths January 4 – Humphrey Carpenter, English biographer, children's fiction writer and radio broadcaster (born 1946) January 7 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (born 1913) January 14 – Charlotte MacLeod, American mystery writer (born 1922) January 15 Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (born 1920) Elizabeth Janeway, American feminist author (born 1913) January 19 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (suicide; born 1974) January 20 – Roland Frye, American theologian and critic (born 1921) January 21 John L. Hess, American journalist and critic (born 1917) Theun de Vries, Dutch writer and poet (born 1907) January 24 – Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian science fiction writer (born 1933) January 25 – Max Velthuijs, Dutch writer and illustrator (born 1923) January 29 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dramatist, and screenwriter (born 1924) February 10 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (born 1915) February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American science fiction writer (born 1944) February 20 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer, creator of Gonzo journalism (born 1937) February 21 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (born 1929) February 25 – Phoebe Hesketh, English poet (born 1909) March 7 – Willis Hall, English playwright (born 1929) March 8 Alice Thomas Ellis, English novelist, essayist and cookery book author (born 1932) Anna Haycraft, English novelist (born 1932) March 10 – Patience Gray, English cookery and travel writer (born 1917) March 17 – Andre Norton, American science fiction writer (born 1912) March 22 – Anthony Creighton, English playwright (born 1922) March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (born 1926) April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian writer (born 1915) April 7 – Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwean novelist (meningitis, born 1964) April 26 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (born 1917) May 7 – Tristan Egolf, American novelist (suicide, born 1971) June 9 – Hovis Presley, English poet (heart attack, born 1960) June 10 – Nick Darke, Cornish playwright (cancer, born 1948) June 14 – Norman Levine, Canadian short story writer (born 1923) June 16 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican novelist (born 1905) June 20 – Larry Collins, American novelist (born 1929) June 22 – William Donaldson, English satirist (born 1935) June 27 – Shelby Foote, American novelist (born 1916) June 28 – Philip Hobsbaum, Scottish poet and critic (born 1932) June 30 – Christopher Fry, English dramatist (born 1907) July 6 Evan Hunter, American novelist (born 1926) Claude Simon, French Nobel laureate in literature (born 1913) July 7 – Gustaf Sobin, American poet (born 1935) July 17 – Gavin Lambert, English novelist and biographer (born 1924) July 19 – Edward Bunker, American crime writer (born 1933) August 9 – Judith Rossner, American novelist (born 1935) August 16 – William Corlett, English author and playwright (born 1938) August 21 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (born 1036) August 29 – Sybil Marshall, English novelist (born 1913) September 3 – R. S. R. Fitter, English nature writer (born 1913) September 26 – Helen Cresswell, English children's writer (born 1934) September 27 Ronald Pearsall, English writer (born 1927) Mary Lee Settle, American novelist (born 1918) October 2 – August Wilson, American playwright (born 1945) October 17 – Ba Jin (巴金), Chinese novelist (born 1904) October 31 – Amrita Pritam, Indian Punjabi poet and novelist (born 1919) November 1 – Michael Thwaites, Australian poet (born 1915) November 2 – Gordon A. Craig, Scottish historian November 4 – Michael G. Coney, Canadian science-fiction writer (born 1932) November 5 – John Fowles, English writer (born 1926) November 21 – Aileen Fox, English archaeologist (born 1907) November 26 – Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1923) December 1 – Mary Hayley Bell, dramatist December 2 – Christine Pullein-Thompson, English novelist (born 1925) December 9 – Robert Sheckley, American short story writer (born 1928) December 15 – Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher and author (born 1914) December 16 – Kenneth Bulmer, English novelist and short story writer (born 1921)
Awards Nobel Prize in Literature: Harold Pinter Camões Prize: Lygia Fagundes Telles
Australia The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew T. O'Connor, Tuvalu C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: M. T. C. Cronin, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Samuel Wagan Watson, Smoke Encrypted Whispers Miles Franklin Award: Andrew McGahan, The White Earth
Canada Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China