Announcing the Tag for December

[Nicole R]

I am almost devastated to have to break Meli's heart, but the tag for December is:

2005

Please share your reading plans and recommendations below.

Remember, for the regular monthly reads, the book can be shelved as 2005 on Goodreads, or be a book that is not yet shelved that way but you feel should be.

One way to find books to read for this tag is to please visit:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I encourage people to link to additional lists below if they find them.

What books are you going to read? Are you going to stick with books published in 2005? What were some big award winners that year?

[Hebah]

Bah. I really thought us spec fic folks had a shot this month :(.

[Nicole R]

Hebah wrote: "Bah. I really thought us spec fic folks had a shot this month :(."

The entire vote was unbelievably close! Ghosts was in the lead going into the tie-breaker, but 2005 surged ahead when the gothic revotes were counted!

[Hebah]

Here's an obviously incomplete list of fantasy novels published in 2005. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson is on there, which I haven't read and is a possibility.

I've also currently got Poison Study checked out, a recommendation from a former coworker. The trick there is whether anyone else in my system wants to read it since it's the last copy we have in circulation.

[Hebah]

Another list: YA novels of 2005, may need some vetting since it's a GR list.

[Hebah]

Listopia list of best of 2005, seems more accurate than the general 2005 tag page.

[Barbara M]

Well, Darn! However, I'm sure I'll find something to love in such a broad tag.

[Meli]

I HATE THIS! :(

(but I'll get over it after I look at 2005 and realize how much there really is, and there is even probably a ghost or 2)

[Meli]

And yet again, Outlander fits 😂🤣

[Anita]

Meli wrote: "I HATE THIS! :(

(but I'll get over it after I look at 2005 and realize how much there really is, and there is even probably a ghost or 2)"

I am so sorry, Meli! We were rooting for you behind the scenes, but it was really, really tight . . .

[Meli]

Anita wrote: "Meli wrote: "I HATE THIS! :(

(but I'll get over it after I look at 2005 and realize how much there really is, and there is even probably a ghost or 2)"

I am so sorry, Meli! We were rooting for y..."

Someday, something spooky / creepy / ghostly / gross / horrific / monstrous will win! :P

[Hebah]

Meli wrote: "Anita wrote: "Meli wrote: "I HATE THIS! :(

(but I'll get over it after I look at 2005 and realize how much there really is, and there is even probably a ghost or 2)"

I am so sorry, Meli! We were..."

These votes are killing me. It's getting to the point where I'm beginning to assume throwing all the points at one of them is just throwing them away, but I also really want them to win.

[Nicole R]

Meli wrote: "And yet again, Outlander fits 😂🤣"

LOL! Seriously, I think that is the magic book.

[Anita]

So I have a good number of 2005 books (as in published in 2005) that look interesting to me. Has anyone actually read any of these?

Veronica
Trance
Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
Mother's Milk

[Joanne]

Hebah wrote: "Here's an obviously incomplete list of fantasy novels published in 2005. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson is on there, which I haven't read and is a possibility.

Ha! And of course not one of them is one my TBR list-but, some of them will be....

[Joanne]

Anita wrote: "So I have a good number of 2005 books (as in published in 2005) that look interesting to me. Has anyone actually read any of these?

Sorry no, but Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain Looks really good!

You know what hate? How this thread always blows away the cleaning up I did of my TBR every month🤣

And Meli-I am sorry, I tried!

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[Jgrace]

That list is one way to find titles, but if I'm going to do this I want a book that was actually published in 2005. The GR shelf is misleading for that purpose.

But, poor Meli. There must be a spooky book published in 2005.

More research is required.

[Sara]

I'm not thrilled about this tag, but I'm sure I'll find something, maybe I'll finally get to Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything or Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

OH and if anyone is like Nicole, I spotted Twilight on the list of fantasy novels published in 2005.

[Joanne]

Found this list

Top Selling Books of 2005

https://www.abebooks.com/docs/Communi...

Edit: Careful with this one, it looks like some were actually published in late 2004

[Meli]

Thank you for everyone who supported the ghost vote :) And those showering pity upon me.

It looks like trim is #2, which for me will be The Haunting of Hill House so WIN! Not 2005 but it will do just fine anyway.

[Amy]

Don’t blame me! I voted for gothic with second choice ghosts. I guess the other gothics went with 2005.

For 2005, going with the Hummingbird’s Daughter, which has been on my TBR forever! Anyone is welcome to join me!

[Nicole R]

Sara wrote: "OH and if anyone is like Nicole, I spotted Twilight on the list of fantasy novels published in 2005.."

Stop the presses. Twilight was originally published in 2005?!? OMG do I do a fifth reread?!? It is SO TEMPTING.

Also, I cannot believe I have been thoroughly enjoying these books for almost 15 years.

[Amy]

Wait! Joanne’s list was fabulous! Know what’s on it? Wicked! I own it and have been waiting for a challenge to read it!

[Nicole R]

Another option for a quick read is Looking for Alaska by John Green. At only 220 pages of YA fiction, you can probably knock it out in a sitting.

Also, it is currently a Hulu series that several of my friends say is really good! It may also be Green's debut?

[Darci]

I'm definitely going to stick with a book actually published that year. I've been wanting to read Three Bags Full for awhile, so I'm going to go with that one.

[Idit]

I did not see that coming!

[Amy]

Neither did I!

[Theresa]

Amy wrote: "Wait! Joanne’s list was fabulous! Know what’s on it? Wicked! I own it and have been waiting for a challenge to read it!"

I HATED Wicked! In fact I refuse to read any Gregory MacGuire after reading it. It was so hatefully written. In fact, the writers of the musical did a miraculous job turning something so ugly into something magical and affirming and deserve every Tony they received for it as a result.

[Theresa]

Darci wrote: "I'm definitely going to stick with a book actually published that year. I've been wanting to read Three Bags Full for awhile, so I'm going to go with that one."

LOVED this! Very clever and quite funny -- although the very ending is weak. A friend of mine read it on my recommendation and thought it awful. It's a light read.

[Theresa]

I so did not see this coming! I wanted Ghost with my back-up Gothic. Ugh. I'm sure I have sometign floating around my massive numerous TBR Towers but I had a ghost and a gothic are picked out and they fit Flurries for December too!

At least I should be able to find a Flurry that fits 2005 -- there are a ton of Christmas mysteries and romances published every year. I'm sure there is one I missed reading then. Or a fave I can revisit.

[Theresa]

Joanne wrote: "Found this list

Top Selling Books of 2005

https://www.abebooks.com/docs/Communi...

Edit: Careful with this one, it looks like some were actually published in lat..."

Great helpful list - but what burns me is how many books on it I read this year already - like Memoirs of a Geisha and The Rule of Four - picked from my print TBR Towers. There is a Grisham I don't believe I have read...wonder if I have a copy somewhere?

[Theresa]

My trim just misses 2005 -- it's A Wizard of Earthsea published in September 2004...just a tad bit too early!

[Booknblues]

I voted gothic, with a back up of ghosts and I might have thrown some points on if I suspected 2005 would win.

Having said that, I wasn't feeling it for gothic or ghosts, sorry. I am finding some I own and want to read for 2005:
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Still Life
What Angels Fear
Zorro
The Historian(which I dnf with 50 pages left

Some which I don't own that sounded interesting :
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1776Three Day Road]

[Joanne]

Amy wrote: "Wait! Joanne’s list was fabulous! Know what’s on it? Wicked! I own it and have been waiting for a challenge to read it!"

Which list Amy? Wicked was published in 1995!

[Joanne]

Theresa wrote: "My trim just misses 2005 -- it's A Wizard of Earthsea published in September 2004...just a tad bit too early!"

Oh-great story-I am on the last book and am reading it this month

[Joanne]

The list I posted is the TOP SELLING BOOKS-this does not necessarily mean they were published in 2005-just want to clear that up

[Amy]

back to hummingbird's daughter, and dragonfly in amber?

[annapi]

Theresa wrote: "My trim just misses 2005 -- it's A Wizard of Earthsea published in September 2004...just a tad bit too early!"

Um... A Wizard of Earthsea was originally published in 1968. I read it somewhere in the 70's. Must have been a new edition.

[Theresa]

annapi wrote: "Theresa wrote: "My trim just misses 2005 -- it's A Wizard of Earthsea published in September 2004...just a tad bit too early!"

Um... A Wizard of Earthsea was originally published in 1..."

Ah could be. Not really critical. I'm sure I have something from 2005 in the TBR Towers, especially given I randomly pulled several this year and read them. No way have it cleared out all the 2005 TBRs, LOL.

[Theresa]

annapi wrote: "Theresa wrote: "My trim just misses 2005 -- it's A Wizard of Earthsea published in September 2004...just a tad bit too early!"

Um... A Wizard of Earthsea was originally published in 1..."

Actually, who says it has to have been 2005 the first year it was published? Why not 2005 best seller? New edition? New edition with a new forward? 2005 made into a movie or tv series? I mean, 2005 isn't really defined, is it? Could be anything about the book that relates for you as 2005 -- it was given to you in 2005 (inscription) or autographed by author in 2005 (again, inscription). It could be a book you bought on a trip you took in 2005. You bought it to celebrate some milestone or used a gift card for it in 2005. The story takes place in 2005.

2005 is definitely a broad option.

[Nicole R]

Any, if you are trying to stick with something actually published in 2005, then cross of Dragonfly in Amber. It came out in the early 90s.

But, as Theresa said, you can define the tag many different ways! So perhaps it fits your personal definition.

[Nicole R]

Amy* not Any. Lol

[Hebah]

Dragonfly in Amber is my Trim title and 11 people tagged it as 2005, so if I actually get around to it, I'm claiming it.

[NancyJ]

Meli wrote: "Thank you for everyone who supported the ghost vote :) And those showering pity upon me.

It looks like trim is #2, which for me will be The Haunting of Hill House so WIN! Not 2005 but it will do ..."

I spotted a couple ghost books on the Listopia list for 2005. Grave secrets (or something similar) by charlaine Harris. And a nonfiction book Spook. I liked the Harris series.

[Karin]

Dang, this was my second choice--as those of you who know me realize, Ghost was NOT what I voted for. BUT, this will be easy peasy I think.

Lame old slang, etc, is something I am known to bring up out of the blue--sometimes even stuff from before I was born. I have no idea why.

[Amy]

Yup! Wicked and Dragonfly off the list. Sticking with Hummingbirds Daughter for sure!

[Theresa]

Happy Dance! I found my 2005 and it fits Christmas/December Flurries! I walked in my door just now and cast my eye over one of my TBR Towers. A book caught my eye, one I knew I had had for years, Christmas themed and unread. A collection of 3 contemporary Christmas romances. I stretched to the top of the tower and finessed the book out, opened to the copyright page....

SCORE! Published in 2005! The colkection and each novella!

This Christmas - there is a reissue in 2009, but original is 2005.

Perfect for my busy month.

[DianeMP]

2005, well that's a surprise! For this category I think I'll read books that were published in 2005. After searching through the published dates I found a few gems:

A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

[Michael]

Surprised to see I read 25 out of the first 100 on the Listopia list. 5-star harvests include:
The Book Thief--Zusak
No Country for Old Men--McCarthy
On Beauty--Zadie Smith
The Accidental--Ali Smith
Three Day Road--Boyden
Europe Central--Vollman
March--Geraldine Brooks
Team of Rivals--Goodwin
Spin (Charles Wilson-sci fi)
The Closers (Michael Connelly--mystery)

Am trying to read best essay collections so I will pursue David Foster Wallace's collection, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays.

[Karin]

Aaargh! I have started combing the 2005 list from the back (I had so many I've read from the first page) and the first one I've read that showed was from 1895--The Red Badge of Courage! This is why it wasn't my first choice as it will take a will to cull the ones people put there because that's when they read it.