New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005

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1. 51. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild Drag me to re-order

2. 52. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Drag me to re-order

3. 53. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald Drag me to re-order

4. 54. de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens Drag me to re-order

5. 55. Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick Drag me to re-order

6. 56. Elia Kazan by Richard Schickel Drag me to re-order

7. 57. An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra Drag me to re-order

8. 58. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Drag me to re-order

9. 59. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt Drag me to re-order

10. 60. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte Drag me to re-order

11. 61. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Walls Jeannette Drag me to re-order

12. 62. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff Drag me to re-order

13. 63. In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War by David Reynolds Drag me to re-order

14. 64. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch Drag me to re-order

15. 65. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by Richard Parker Drag me to re-order

16. 66. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler Drag me to re-order

17. 67. The Letters of Robert Lowell by Robert Lowell Drag me to re-order

18. 68. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk Drag me to re-order

19. 69. The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr Drag me to re-order

20. 70. Made in Detroit by Paul Clemens Drag me to re-order

21. 71. Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang Drag me to re-order

22. 72. Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers Drag me to re-order

23. 73. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954 by Hilary Spurling Drag me to re-order

24. 74. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin Drag me to re-order

25. 75. New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century by Jed Perl Drag me to re-order

26. 76. Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War by Anthony Shadid Drag me to re-order

27. 77. Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey Drag me to re-order

28. 78. Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop by Joseph Lelyveld Drag me to re-order

29. 79. 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Kevin Flynn Drag me to re-order

30. 80. The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss Drag me to re-order

31. 81. Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal Drag me to re-order

32. 82. Postwar : A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt Drag me to re-order

33. 83. The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life by Fred Siegel Drag me to re-order

34. 84. ? The Rise of American Democracy, Brief Version by Sean Wilentz Drag me to re-order

35. 85. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard Drag me to re-order

36. 86. ? 1776 by David McCullough Drag me to re-order

37. 87. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Drag me to re-order

38. 88. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John F. Harris Drag me to re-order

39. 89. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz Drag me to re-order

40. 90. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Drag me to re-order

41. 91. Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer Drag me to re-order

42. 92. Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador by John Gimlette Drag me to re-order

43. 93. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee Drag me to re-order

44. 94. Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon Drag me to re-order

45. 95. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Hanson Drag me to re-order

46. 96. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall Drag me to re-order

47. 97. Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight by Leah Hager Cohen Drag me to re-order

48. 98. Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum Drag me to re-order

49. 99. The World is Flat (Updated and Expanded) by Thomas L. Friedman Drag me to re-order

50. 100. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Drag me to re-order

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