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The 2005 longlist

The books are listed by author's surname

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

* includes reader review

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AUTHOR
 
TITLE
Diana Abu-Jaber   Crescent
Peter Ackroyd   The Clerkenwell Tales
Mitch Albom   The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Monica Ali   Brick Lane
Jane Alison   The Marriage of the Sea
Martin Amis   Yellow Dog
Niccolò Ammaniti   I'm Not Scared
Margaret Atwood   Oryx and Crake
Paul Auster   Oracle Night
Diane Awerbuck   Gardening at Night Shortlisted
Nicholson Baker   A Box of Matches
Louis Begley   Shipwrecked
Thomas Berger   Best Friends
Giles Blunt   The Delicate Storm
T. C. Boyle   Drop City
Anita Brookner   The Rules of Engagement
Amanda Brown   Legally Blonde
Dan Brown  
The Da Vinci Code
James Lee Burke  
Last Car to Elysian Fields
Frederick Busch  
A Memory of War
 
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Edward Carey   Alva and Irva
Peter Carey   My Life as a Fake
Brian Castro   Shanghai Dancing
Javier Cercas   Soldiers of Salamis
Tracy Chevalier   The Lady and the Unicorn *
Lee Child   Persuader
Lars Saabye Christensen   The Half Brother Shortlisted
Paulo Coelho   Eleven Minutes
J.M. Coetzee   Elizabeth Costello
Gil Courtemanche   A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Barbara Croft   Moon's Crossing
Rachel Cusk   The Lucky Ones
Brett D'Arcy   The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks
Amma Darko   Faceless
Julia Darling   The Taxi Driver's Daughter
Michelle de Kretser   The Hamilton Case
Nihal de Silva   The Road From Elephant Pass
Anne Donovan   Buddha Da
Gerard Donovan   Schopenhauer's Telescope
Helen Dunmore   Mourning Ruby
   
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Susan Elderkin   The Voices
Anna Enquist   The Ice Carriers
Louise Erdrich   The Master Butchers Singing Club
Ramabai Espinet   The Swinging Bridge
James Fleming   Thomas Gage
Nicci French   Secret Smile
Cornelia Funke   Inkheart
Christian Gailly   An Evening at the Club
Patrick Gale   A Sweet Obscurity
Damon Galgut  
The Good Doctor Shortlisted
Miro Gavran   John the Baptist
Maurice Gee   The Scornful Moon
Douglas Glover   Elle Shortlisted
Peter Goldsworthy   Three Dog Night
Carol Goodman   The Seduction of Water
Günter Grass   Crabwalk
John Grisham   The King of Torts
Jens Christian Grøndahl   Virginia
Arnon Grunberg   Phantom Pain * Shortlisted
 
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Mark Haddon   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Joanne Harris   Holy Fools
Robert Harris   Pompeii
Shirley Hazzard   The Great Fire * Shortlisted
Christoph Hein   Willenbrock Shortlisted
Zoë Heller   Notes on a Scandal
Jack Hodgins   Distance
Nalo Hopkinson  
The Salt Roads
Janette Turner Hospital  
Due Preparations for the Plague
Khaled Hosseini  
The Kite Runner
Nancy Huston   An Adoration
Siri Hustvedt   What I Loved
Witi Ihimaera   Sky Dancer
Frances Itani   Deafening Shortlisted
Rayda Jacobs   Confessions of a Gambler
Tama Janowitz   Peyton Amberg
Edward P. Jones   The Known World * Winner
Pamela Jooste   People Like Ourselves
Mariam Karim   My Little Boat
Maxine Hong Kingston   The Fifth Book of Peace
   
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Jhumpa Lahiri   The Namesake
Dennis Lehane  
Shutter Island
Jonathan Lethem   The Fortress of Solitude * Shortlisted
Jim Lewis   The King is Dead
David Liss   The Coffee Trader
Mario Vargas Llosa  
The Way to Paradise
Glenville Lovell  
Too Beautiful to Die
Ann-Marie MacDonald   The Way the Crow Flies
Martin Malone   The Broken Cedar
K.S. Maniam   Between Lives
Henning Mankell   The Return of the Dancing Master
Valerie Martin   Property
Colum McCann   Dancer
Todd McEwen   Who Sleeps with Katz
Deon Meyer   Heart of the Hunter
Clare Morrall   Astonishing Splashes of Colour
Erwin Mortier   My Fellow Skin
Harry Mulisch   Siegfried

Wahome Mutahi &
Wahome Karengo

  The Miracle Merchant
Julie Myerson   Something Might Happen
Audrey Niffenegger   The Time Traveler's Wife
   
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Perri O'Shaughnessy   Presumption of Death
Olaf Olafsson  
Walking Into the Night
Tim Parks   Judge Savage
Matthew Pearl  
The Dante Club
Dexter Petley  
White Lies
Per Petterson   In the Wake
Caryl Phillips   A Distant Shore
Geoffrey Philp   Benjamin, My Son
DBC Pierre   Vernon God Little
Marguerite Poland   Recessional for Grace
Richard Powers   The Time of Our Singing
Richard Price   Samaritan
Sarah Quigley   Shot
Jonathan Raban   Waxwings
David Adams Richards   River of the Brokenhearted
Cristina Rivera-Garza   No One Will See Me Cry
Tom Robbins   Villa Incognito
James Robertson   Joseph Knight
Matt Ruff   Set This House in Order
Pernille Rygg   The Golden Section
   
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt   Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran
Brian Shawver   The Cuban Prospect
Anita Shreve  
All He Ever Wanted
Johanna Sinisalo   Not Before Sundown
Jane Smiley   Good Faith
Dao Strom   Grass Roof, Tin Roof
Graham Swift   The Light of Day
Adam Thirlwell   Politics
Apelu Tielu   Forever in Paradise
Edith L. Tiempo   The Builder
Barbara Trapido   Frankie and Stankie
Rose Tremain   The Colour
Adriana Trigiani   Lucia, Lucia
Monique Truong  
The Book of Salt
Jennifer Vanderbes   Easter Island
M.G. Vassanji   The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Peter Verhelst   Tonguecat
Diana Wagman   Bump
Peter Wells   Iridescence
Albert Wendt   The Mango's Kiss
Robert Wilson   The Blind Man of Seville
Tobias Wolff   Old School
Danielle Wood   The Alphabet of Light and Dark
A. B. Yehoshua   The Liberated Bride
Juli Zeh   Eagles and Angels
Richard Zimler   Hunting Midnight
Zoran Zivkovic   The Book
   
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