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Here are the books I read for the first time in 2005:

  • Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
  • Ursula, Under - Ingrid Hill
  • How the Canyon Became Grand - Stephen J. Pyne
  • The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets - Jane Addams
  • Full House - Stephen Jay Gould
  • Passage to Juneau - Jonathan Raban
  • Trouble on Triton - Samuel R. Delany
  • Working for a Doctorate - Norman Graves and Ved Varma
  • American Educational Governance on Trial - William Lowe Boyd and Debra Miretzky
  • Making Sense of Administrative Leadership - Bensimon, Neumann, and Birnbaum
  • Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education - William F. Massy
  • Who Owns Academic Work - Corynne McSherry
  • Investigating the Social World - Russell K. Schutt
  • By Design: Planning Research on Higher Education - Light, Singer, and Willett
  • How Colleges Work - Robert Birnbaum
  • The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
  • Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass
  • Leadership and Ambiguity - Michael D. March and James G. Cohen
  • Fund Raising in the United States- Scott M. Cutlip
  • How Academic Leadership Works - Robert Birnbaum
  • Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle - John M. Braxton
  • Management Fads in Higher Education - Robert Birnbaum
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy in Denim - David Sedaris
  • The House of Intellect - Jacques Barzun
  • Urban Universities in the Eighties: Issues in Statewide Planning - Steven H. Smartt
  • Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure - Braxton, Hirschy, and McClendon
  • Education and State Politics - Usdan, Minar, and Hurwitz
  • Essence of Decision - Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow
  • Academic Disciplines - Smart, Feldman, and Ethinton
  • The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
  • State Governments and Research Universities: A Framework for a Renewed Partnership - David J. Weerts
  • Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make - Hossler, Schmidt, and Vesper
  • Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity - Patricia K. McDonough
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
  • A History of American Higher Education - John R. Thelin
  • Becoming Naomi Leon - Pam Munoz Ryan
  • International Education: Its History and Promise for Today - Theodore M. Vestal
  • Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior - Judith Martin
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
  • The Pentagon's New Map - Thomas P.M. Barnett
  • Crossing Customs: International Students Write on U.S. College Life and Culture - Andrew Garrod and Jay Davis
  • The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
  • Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
  • Looking for Jake - China Mieville
  • Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India - Ashutosh Varshney
  • Critical Issues in Fund Raising - Dwight F. Burlingame
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
  • Pathologies of Power - Paul Farmer
  • The Breaking of Nations - Robert Cooper
  • The End of Poverty - Jeffrey D. Sachs
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Scar - China Mieville
  • A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis - David Rieff
  • Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy - Robert D. Putnam
  • The Moral Basis of a Backward Society - Edward C. Banfield
  • New Strategies for Educational Fundraising - Michael J. Worth
  • Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East - Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway
  • Howliday Inn - James Howe
  • Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity - Francis Fukuyama
  • The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
  • The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad - Fareed Zakaria
  • Civil Society - Michael Edwards
  • The Old Reliable - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Butler Did It - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Spring Fever - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Bertie Wooster Sees It Through - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Return of Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Colossus of New York - Colson Whitehead
  • Public Policy in the United States - Mark E. Rushefsky
  • Charlie All Night - Jennifer Crusie
  • The Memory of Running - Ron McLarty
  • Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe - Chamberlayne, Rustin, and Wengraf
  • The Basic Eight - Daniel Handler
  • Bead on Trouble - Barbara Burnett Smith
  • Tenzing: Hero of Everest - Ed Douglas
  • Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
  • Holes - Louis Sachar
  • A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis - Eugene Bardach
  • The Final Solution: A Story of Detection - Michael Chabon
  • The Trouble With Valentine's Day - Rachel Gibson
  • The Public Research University - Darrell R. Lewis and James Hearn
  • Generation Deluxe: Consumerism and Philanthropy of the New Super-rich - Iris Nowell
  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction - Akhil Reed Amar
  • Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations - John M. Bryson
  • Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer - Henry Petroski
  • The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  • Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue
  • Libra - Don DeLillo
  • The Shameless Diary of an Explorer - Robert Dunn
  • Opening the Bible - Robert Kysar
  • We're Just Like You, Only Prettier - Celia Rivenbark
  • Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation - Joseph J. Ellis