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The Best Books of 2005

With neither explanation nor ado, Me Three presents its ten favorite books of 2005, in no particular order, except as grouped into fiction and non-fiction categories (and also let us mention that no one had more to do with the shape this list has taken than one Steve Finbow):

Fiction:

 

No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy

 

 

 

Lunar Park
by Bret Easton Ellis

 

 

 

The Possibility of an Island
by Michel Houellebecq

 

 

 

The Brooklyn Follies
by Paul Auster

 




The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
by George Saunders

 

 

 

Non-fiction:

 

Mediated
by Thomas De Zengotita

 

 

 

de Kooning: An American Master
by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

 

 


 

Theater of War
by Lewis Lapham

 

 

 

Power and the Idealists
by Paul Berman

 

 


 

The Year of Magical Thinking
by
Joan Didion