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Metacritic's complete Best of 2005 coverage: High Scores | Awards | Critic Top Ten Lists

2005 Man Booker Prize Nominees

The full longlist is displayed below. Shortlisted titles are denoted with an asterisk. The winner is denoted with two asterisks.

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
** The Sea by John Banville
* Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
* A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
In The Fold by Rachel Cusk
* Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
All For Love by Dan Jacobson
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The People's Act Of Love by James Meek
Shalimar The Clown by Salman Rushdie
* The Accidental by Ali Smith
* On Beauty by Zadie Smith
This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson
This Is The Country by William Wall

More Information: themanbookerprize.com

2005 National Book Awards

Finalists are listed below. Winners are denoted with an asterisk.

FICTION
The March by E. L. Doctorow
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Holy Skirts by Renè Steinke
* Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

NONFICTION
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion by Alan Burdick
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch
* The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild

POETRY
Where Shall I Wander by John Ashbery
Star Dust: Poems by Frank Bidart
Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 by Brendan Galvin
* Migration: New and Selected Poems by W. S. Merwin
The Moment's Equation by Vern Rutsala

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
* The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Where I Want to Be by Adele Griffin
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

More Information: nationalbook.org

2005 Nobel Prize for Literature

Harold Pinter, playwright, poet, Great Britain

More Information: nobelprize.org

2005 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Finalists listed below; winners marked with an asterisk.

FICTION
* The March by E. L. Doctorow
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Europe Central by William Vollmann

GENERAL NONFICTION
* Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk
Eating Stone by Ellen Meloy
Human Cargo by Caroline Moorehead
Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid

BIOGRAPHY
* American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke
Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
* Them: A Memoir Of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray
Fat GIrl by Judith Moore
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
Two Lives by Vikram Seth

More Information: bookcritics.org

2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Winner is marked with an asterisk.

Finalists
* The March by E. L. Doctorow
A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
I Got Somebody in Staunton by William Henry Lewis
Last Night by James Salter
The Chrysanthemum Palace by Bruce Wagner

More Information: penfaulkner.org

2006 Pulitzer Prize

Fiction
March by Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins

Biography
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

History
Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky

Poetry
Late Wife by Claudia Emerson

More Information: pulitzer.org