New Student Book Experience
Archive - 2005 Nominations
- The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower
- Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture - Ross King
- Colors of the Mountain - Da Chen
- Down on the Shore - Adele Holden
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott
- Halfway Home My Life 'til Now - Dr. Ronan Tynan
- Human Stain - Phillip Roth
- In the Company - Michael J. Durant
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass, et. al.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Marc Haddon
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
- Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Additional Nominations:
- A Civil Action - Johnathan Harr
- A Classic of Western Literature - Kafka or Dickens
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- A Heartbreaking Word of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
- Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient - Norman Cousins
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston
- Bleachers - John Grisham
- Briar Rose - Jane Yole
- College Success Strategies - Sherry L. Nist
- Complications: A Surgeon's Note on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
- Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy O'Toole
- Disclosure - Michael Crichton
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- East of Eden - John Steinbeck
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynn Truss
- Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
- Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik
- Fire in a Canebrake - Laura Wexler
- Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
- Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories - S. Rushdie
- I of the Vortex - Roldolfo Llinas
- Into the Wild - John Krakauer
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Lost in the City - Edward Jones
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Morrie: In His Own Words - Morrie Schawrtz
- Nickel and Dimed: on (not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
- Oh, The Things I Know! A Guide to Success or, Failing That, Happiness - Al Franken
- On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
- Roots - Alex Haley
- Run - Douglas Wilder
- Savannah - John Jakes
- Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
- Second Nature - Michael Pollan
- Skywriting - Jane Pauley
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
- Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seirstad
- The Color of Water - James McBride
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The Emperor of Scent - Chandler Burr
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
- The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
- The Handmaiden's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- The Known World - Edward Jones
- The Master Butcher's Singing Club - Louise Ederich
- The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
- The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
- The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
- The US Constitution
- Transforming Leadership - James McGregor Bride
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art - Scott McCloud
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire