Favorite Books of 2005

12/28/2005

Hard work, sacrifice, and focus will never show up in tests.
Lance Armstrong

Bonnie and I had less time for pleasure reading this year, but still managed to digest a few we really enjoyed. Here are our Top Ten Books of 2005:

The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Hidden Kitchens by Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson
How to Be Bad by David Bowker
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky by Jeanne Ray
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Frank Foer
Fatima’s Good Fortune by J & G Dryansky

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PS: For those brave souls who in the past have received occasional offerings of humor from me and wondered why they have stopped coming — it’s because I cleverly managed to delete my entire e-mail address book and am having to rebuild it one address at a time.

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