Featured Titles 2005 New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on these lists. Books for kids and teens (fiction and nonfiction) are also listed.

March 2005

Nonfiction

• Courtroom 302: A Year in Felony Court
  Author: Bogira, Steve
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 0679432523 Date: 2005
  KirkusPW
  Fast-paced and bursting with character and incident, this is a singularly illuminating exploration of America's criminal justice system from the inside out.
  Updated 2.14.05
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir
  Author: Walls, Jeannette
  Publisher: Scribner $ 25 ISBN: 0743247531 Date: 2005
  PWKirkusBooklist
  In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.15.05

 

Fiction

• Dear Zoe
  Author: Beard, Philiip
  Publisher: Viking $ 21.95 ISBN: 0670034010 Date: 2005
  Booklist
  Beard's stunning debut is an epistolary novel written from 15-year-old Tess DeNunzio to her little sister Zoe. After Zoe's accidental death on September 11, 2001--a day so many others died--Tess's family is numbed by their personal tragedy. Not since The Lovely Bones has there been a study of grief, adolescence, and healing that rings as true as Dear Zoe.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 2.15.05

 

• Snobs
  Author: Fellowes, Julian
  Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312336926 Date: 2005
  KirkusLJ
  From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Gosford Park comes a brilliant and revealing comedy of manners.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | Humorous Fiction
  Updated 1.23.05
• Changed Man
  Author: Prose, Francine
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060196742 Date: 2005
  BooklistPWKirkus
  Masterfully plotted, darkly comic, A Changed Man illuminates the everyday transactions in lives, exposing what remains invisible in plain sight in America's drug-addicted and media-driven culture.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.5.05
• The Mysteries
  Author: Tuttle, Lisa
  Publisher: Spectra $ 21 ISBN: 0553382969 Date: 2005
  PW
  From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one man's search for a missing young woman with history's most enduring legends of the disappeared.
  Updated 1.19.05

 

Mystery & Suspense

• All the Flowers Are Dying
  Author: Block, Lawrence
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060198311 Date: 2005
  PW
  The "New York Times" bestselling author is back with another fast-paced novelrich with mystery, atmosphere, and characterization.
  Updated 2.14.05
• See Isabelle Run
  Author: Bloom, Elizabeth
  Publisher: Mysterious $ 22.95 ISBN: 0892967854 Date: 2005
  BooklistLJ
  Combining thrills with attitude, this novel follows a jilted bride uncovering sinister secrets at a multimedia empire.
  Updated 1.23.05
• With No One As Witness
  Author: George, Elizabeth
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26.95 ISBN: 0060545607 Date: 2005
  Booklist
  When an adolescent boy's nude body is found mutilated and artfully arranged on the top of the tomb, it takes no large leap for the police to recognize the work of a serial killer. The case goes to New Scotland Yard Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley, who must pursue the killer despite a devastating tragedy within the department.
  Updated 2.7.05

 

• Dating Is Murder
  Author: Kozak, Harley Jane
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 19.95 ISBN: 0385510349 Date: 2005
  LJKirkusPW
  With Dating Is Murder, Kozak delivers another sparkling treasure, a laugh-out-loud funny, literate mystery for readers of Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton, and for Kozak's own growing legion of fans.
  Suggested Reading: If You Like Janet Evanovich | All Stars
  Updated 2.7.05

 

Books for Kids, Teens & Readers of All Ages

Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.

• Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
  Author: Silverstein, Shel
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 17.99 ISBN: 0060256532 Date: 2005
  PW
  The legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends welcomes readers to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own. Conceived many years ago and completed before Silverstein's death, this new book of poems and drawings is filled with wordplay rhymes and clever spoonerisms.
  Grades: 3-4 Category: Poetry