Archived reading list for 2005. Key and current reading list is here.
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Dec 2005 - Dec 2005: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (link may be to different edition). Book Club Associates London, 1984 [tr 1983 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Martin Secker & Warburg, from the Italian, Il nome della rosa, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri-Bompiani, 1980]. CN 8852 (no ISBN).
Oct? 2005 - Oct 2005: Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree. Puffin, 1979 [Chatto & Windus, 1977]. ISBN 0-14-03-1118-1.
Sep? 2005 - Oct? 2005: Susan Cooper, The Grey King. Puffin, 1977, 1980 [Chatto and Windus, 1975]. ISBN 0-14-03-0952-7.
Sep? 2005 - Sep? 2005: Susan Cooper, Greenwitch. Puffin, 1977 [Chatto & Windus, 1974]. ISBN 0-14-03-0901-2.
Sep? 2005 - Sep? 2005: Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising. Puffin, 1976, 1979 [Chatto & Windus, 1973]. ISBN 0-14-03-0799-0.
Aug 2005 - Sep? 2005: Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone. Puffin, 1968, 1978 [Jonathan Cape, 1965]. ISBN 0-14-03-0362-6.
Jun 2005 - (Aug 2005): Arthur C. Clarke, Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!. Voyager (HarperCollins), 1999. ISBN 0-00-224697-X.
Aug 2005 - (Aug 2005): Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Footfall.
Aug 2005 - Aug 2005: Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down. Viking, 2005. ISBN 0-670-88824-9.
Aug 2005 - Aug 2005: Anne McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern.
Jul 2005 - (Jul 2005): Eric Meyer, Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide.
Jul 2005 - Aug 2005: James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, and Gilad Bracha, The Java Language Specification, Third Edition. Addison-Wesley, 2005. ISBN 0-321-24678-0.
Jul 2005 - Aug 2005: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer. Futura (Orbit), 1978, 1986 [authors, 1977]. ISBN 0-7088-1362-3.
Jul 2005 - Jul 2005: B. S. Johnson, Omnibus: Albert Angelo, Trawl, House Mother Normal. Picador, 2004 [New Directions, 1964; Marin Secker & Warburg, 1966; William Collins Sons & Co, 1971]. ISBN 0-330-35332-2.
Jun 2005 - Jun 2005: Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories. Penguin, 1961, 1963, 1964 [Martin Secker & Warburg 1933 / 1949]. Contains: Metamorphosis, The Great Wall of China, Investigations of a Dog, The Burrow, In the Penal Settlement, The Giant Mole.
Jun 2005 - Jun 2005: Anne McCaffrey, Red Star Rising: More Chronicles of Pern. Corgi, 1997 [Bantam, 1996]. ISBN 0-552-14272-7.
Jun 2005 - Jun 2005: Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life. Abacus, 2004 [Polygon, 2003]. ISBN 0-349-11725-X.
Jun 2005 - Jun 2005: Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code. Corgi, 2004 [Bantam, 2003]. ISBN 0-552-14951-9.
Jun 2005 - Jun 2005: Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas. Orbit, 1988, 2005 [Macmillan, 1987]. ISBN 1-85723-138-4.
Jun 2005 - Jun 2005: Anne McCaffrey, The Dolphins of Pern. Corgi, 1995 [Bantam, 1994]. ISBN 0-552-14270-0.
June 2005 - June 2005: Anne McCaffrey, The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall. Corgi, 1994 [Bantam, 1993]. ISBN 0-552-13913-0.
May 2005 - June 2005: Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay. Corgi, 1997 [Gollancz, 1996]. ISBN 0-552-14237-9.
Aug 2004 - May 2005: N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God. SPCK, 2003. ISBN 0-281-05550-5.
May 2005 - May 2005: Anne McCaffrey, All The Weyrs of Pern. Corgi 1992 [Bantam 1991]. ISBN 0-552-13729-4.
May 2005 - May 2005: Anne McCaffrey, The Renegades of Pern. Corgi, 1990 [Bantam, 1990; author, 1989]. ISBN 0-552-13099-0.
Apr 2005 - May 2005: Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine, Last Chance to See. Pan, 1991 [William Heinemann, 1990]. ISBN 0-330-32002-5.
Apr 2005 - Apr 2005: Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsdawn: The Earliest Legend of Pern. Corgi, 1989 [Bantam, 1989]. ISBN 0-552-13098-2.
Apr 2005 - Apr 2005: G. P. Taylor, Wormwood. Faber and Faber, 2004. ISBN 0-571-22150-5.
Apr 2005 - Apr 2005: Anne McCaffrey, Nerilka's Story & The Coelura. Corgi, 1987 [author, 1986/1983 resp.]. ISBN 0-552-12817-1.
Sep 2004 - Apr 2005: Genrich Altshuller, tr. Lev Shulyak, And Suddenly The Inventor Appeared: TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. ISBN 0-9640740-2-8.
Apr 2005 - Apr 2005: Anne McCaffrey, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern. Corgi, 1984 [Severn House, 1983; author, 1982]. ISBN 0-552-12499-0.
Apr 2005 - Apr 2005: Anne McCaffrey, Dragondrums.
Apr 2005 - Apr 2005: Joshua Bloch, Effective Java.
Mar 2005 - Apr 2005: Christopher Green, New Toddler Taming: A Parents' Guide to the First Four Years. Vermilion (Random House), 2001 [Doubleday, 1984]. ISBN 0-09-187528-5.
Mar 2005 - Mar 2005: Anne McCaffrey, The White Dragon.
Feb 2005 - Mar 2005: Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger: Harper of Pern (link may be to different edition). Corgi, 1978 [Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977]. ISBN 0-552-10881-2.
Feb 2005 - Feb 2005: Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong: Continuing the Outstanding Chronicles of Pern (link may be to different edition). Corgi, 1978 [author 1976]. ISBN 0-552-10661-5.
Jan 2005 - Feb 2005: Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men. Abacus 2004 [Polygon 2002]. ISBN 0-349-11704-7.
Jan 2005 - Jan 2005: Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls. Abacus 2003, 2004 [Polygon 2001]. ISBN 0-349-11700-4.
Dec 2004 - Jan 2005: Melvyn Bragg, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language. Hodder & Stoughton 2004 [2003]. ISBN 0-340-82993-1.
Nov 2004 - Jan 2005: Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press, 2000, 2002 [1999]. ISBN 0-262-13360-1.
Nov 2004 - Jan 2005: Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition. Prentice-Hall, 2000. ISBN 0-13-095069-6.
Jan 2005 - Jan 2005: What Not To Wear 2.
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