As some concede defeat in the Fifty Book Challenge, you, gentle reader, have suffered through no fewer than 96 book reviews this year (and one forthcoming). Here’s my list from 2005*:
- Blood on the Arch by Robert J. Randisi
- Three Survived by Robert Silverberg
- Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe edited by Byron Preiss
- From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
- A Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais
- Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais
- Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
- Free Fall by Robert Crais
- Voodoo River by Robert Crais
- Savage Love by Dan Savage
- In the Shadow of the Bear by Michael Sheehan
- Sunset Express by Robert Crais
- Quotations from Speaker Newt edited by Amy D. and Peter W. Bernstein
- Indigo Slam by Robert Crais
- L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
- Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
- Kittens and Cats in colour
- Hostage by Robert Crais
- The Last Detective by Robert Crais
- The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais
- Treachery by Bill Gertz
- Entertainment Weekly The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
- A Century of Enterprise in St. Louis 1894-1994 by Rockwell Gray
- Star Trek 5 by James Blish
- The American Zone by L. Neil Smith
- Cold Service by Robert B. Parker
- Star Trek 6 by James Blish
- Duty by Bob Greene
- Three from the 87th by Ed McBain
- Go Directly to Jail edited by Gene Healy
- Needlepoint on Plastic Canvas by Elisabeth Brenner De Nitto
- It by Stephen King
- The Official Rules at Work by Paul Dickson
- The Weather of the Heart by Madeleine L’Engle
- Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story by Paul Aurandt
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Dick Tracy Casebook Selected by Max Allan Collins and Dick Locher
- A Man of Affairs by John D. MacDonald
- Supercomputer by Edward Packard
- Area of Suspicion by John D. MacDonald
- Star Trek 7 by James Blish
- I Can’t Fight This Feeling…. Edited by David Cassidy
- Jump the Shark by Jon Hein
- The Action Hero’s Handbook by David Borgenicht and Joe Borgenicht
- N-Space by Larry Niven
- Felton & Fowler’s Best, Worst, and Most Unusual by Bruce Fenton and Mark Fowler
- Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz
- Easy Prey by John Sandford
- The Enforcer by Wesley Morgan
- Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker
- The Last Dance by Ed McBain
- Mobtown by Jack Kelly
- Modern Manners by P.J. O’Rourke
- The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
- Chosen Prey by John Sandford
- Naked Prey by John Sandford
- The Last Jihad by Joel C. Rosenberg
- Ring of Truth by Nancy Pickard
- Desperately Seeking Susan by Susan Dworkin
- Borderline by Gerry Boyle
- The Precipice by Ben Bova
- Murder in the Wind by John D. MacDonald
- Star Trek 9 by James Blish
- Cyber Way by Alan Dean Foster
- The Best of National Lampoon #3
- Partisans by Alistair MacLean
- Star Trek 10 by James Blish
- Caravan to Vaccares by Alistair MacLean
- Deliver Us From Evil by Sean Hannity
- Strip Tease by Carl Hiaasen
- Movies and TV: The New York Public Library Book of Answers by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa
- The Empty Copper Sea by John D. MacDonald
- Hark by Ed McBain
- The Devil’s Code by John Sandford
- The Power of Judyism by Judy Tenuta
- The World’s Best Dirty Jokes by “Mr. J”
- American Diplomacy 1900-1950 by George F. Kennan
- TV Superstars ’83 by Ronald W. Lockmann
- The World of Raymond Chandler edited by Miriam Gross
- Superstitious by R.L. Stine
- Killing Raven by Margaret Coel
- The Season to be Wary by Rod Serling
- The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank
- The Night Spider by John Lutz
- School Days by Robert B. Parker
- What’s It All About, Charlie Brown? By Jeffrey H. Loria
- All These Condemned by John D. MacDonald
- Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
- The Book of Lists 3 by Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Irving Wallace
- Bag Limit by Steven F. Havill
- Christine by Stephen King
- Firestarter by Stephen King
- Man Plus by Frederick Pohl
- Mommy Knows Worst by James Lileks
- A Specter Is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber
- Floodgate by Alistair MacLean
* My personal annual goals list runs from December 25, 2004 through December 25, 2005; hence, the first items on the list have post dates in 2004. Also note that these reflect books I have finished in the time period and that I might have begun the books in college, I count them if I finish them.
