What got your vote for the best book that you read in 2005?

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Mine was the Time Traveller's Wife

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Didn't read much at all last year but Time Traveller's Wife and My Sisters keeper were the best I think I did get round to....

my sisters keeper, and hannahs gift (??)`

time travellers wife, have read it several times. although i quite liked harry potter aswell

didnt read my sisters keeper, i cant cope with weepies

Another vote here for case histories Mrs Spoon. And We Need to talk About Kevin. (But I don't expect many to agree with me!)

bit late but davinci code and begun but have not finished the politics of heroin - cia complicity in the global drug trade, its riveting!!

have to say I really enjoyed Diary of an Ordinary Woman,by Margaret Forster.

Case Histories or the Rotters club, I think. and Bad Dirt, Annie Proulx.

Kite Runner, I thought it was brilliant.

Cloud Atlas was fabulous, I also loved The Timetraveller's Wife

A tie between Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Small Island by Andrea Levy.

I really enjoyed This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson as recommended here on Mumsnet by Greenbean (so it is worth reading these recommendations!) but my favourite book of 2005 was probably Harry Potter book 5 or 6. Sorry to be so childish.

Da Vinci at the start of the year... Probably the best for me though were The Fools Trilogy by Robin Hobb... finally got to finish the set of books I started when pregnant with DD, and it was sooo satisfying to end the story!

Another vote for Time Traveller's Wife, but also loved new Harry Potter and A Million Little Pieces.

agree with CaribbeanQueen about Kite Runner, also loved Vernon God Little when I finally got round to reading it.

oohh yes, I'd forgotten about a million little pieces, that was great as well.