Highest Ranked Novels published in 2005

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.

Place	Score	Title	Type	Authors
1	414	Spin	NOVEL	Robert Charles Wilson
2	187	Accelerando	NOVEL	Charles Stross
3	185	Anansi Boys	NOVEL	Neil Gaiman
4	171	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	NOVEL	J. K. Rowling
5	170	Uglies	NOVEL	Scott Westerfeld
6	168	Vellum	NOVEL	Hal Duncan
7	149	Valiant	NOVEL	Holly Black
8	144	Learning the World	NOVEL	Ken MacLeod
9	144	Magic or Madness	NOVEL	Justine Larbalestier
10	133	A Feast for Crows	NOVEL	George R. R. Martin
11	133	Peeps	NOVEL	Scott Westerfeld
12	131	A Princess of Roumania	NOVEL	Paul Park
13	127	Ptolemy's Gate	NOVEL	Jonathan Stroud
14	120	Elantris	NOVEL	Brandon Sanderson
15	116	Das Cusanus-Spiel	NOVEL	Wolfgang Jeschke
16	105	La maison d'oubli	NOVEL	Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg
17	105	Le dragon de feu	NOVEL	Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg
18	100	Alyzon Whitestarr	NOVEL	Isobelle Carmody
19	94	Touching Darkness	NOVEL	Scott Westerfeld
20	94	Fledgling	NOVEL	Octavia E. Butler
21	86	Living Next Door to the God of Love	NOVEL	Justina Robson
22	85	Princess Academy	NOVEL	Shannon Hale
23	85	Ascent	NOVEL	Shane Dix and Sean Williams
24	85	Cagebird	NOVEL	Karin Lowachee
25	85	47	NOVEL	Walter Mosley
26	85	Mindscan	NOVEL	Robert J. Sawyer
27	85	Drowned Wednesday	NOVEL	Garth Nix
28	85	Orphans of Chaos	NOVEL	John C. Wright
29	85	Blade of Fortriu	NOVEL	Juliet Marillier
30	85	Stormwitch	NOVEL	Susan Vaught
31	85	The Historian	NOVEL	Elizabeth Kostova
32	85	Lunar Park	NOVEL	Bret Easton Ellis
33	83	To Crush the Moon	NOVEL	Wil McCarthy
34	80	The Summer Isles	NOVEL	Ian R. MacLeod
35	75	Seeker	NOVEL	Jack McDevitt
36	74	Old Man's War	NOVEL	John Scalzi
37	73	Mammoth	NOVEL	John Varley
38	73	Skybreaker	NOVEL	Kenneth Oppel
39	72	Poison Study	NOVEL	Maria V. Snyder
40	70	Nightpeople	NOVEL	Anthony Eaton
41	70	Das Paradies am Rande der Stadt	NOVEL	Volker Strübing
42	66	Counting Heads	NOVEL	David Marusek
43	65	42	NOVEL	Thomas Lehr
44	64	The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl	NOVEL	Tim Pratt
45	64	The Hallowed Hunt	NOVEL	Lois McMaster Bujold
46	63	Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town	NOVEL	Cory Doctorow
47	63	Morphogenesis	NOVEL	Michael Marrak
48	62	Shadow of the Giant	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
49	62	The Hidden Family	NOVEL	Charles Stross
50	57	Od Magic	NOVEL	Patricia A. McKillip
51	57	Transcendent	NOVEL	Stephen Baxter
52	55	Never Let Me Go	NOVEL	Kazuo Ishiguro
53	54	The Limits of Enchantment	NOVEL	Graham Joyce
54	52	9Tail Fox	NOVEL	Jon Courtenay Grimwood
55	50	Danza de tinieblas	NOVEL	Eduardo Vaquerizo
56	50	The Disastrous Party	NOVEL	Stephen Axelsen
57	50	金春屋ゴメス?こんぱるやゴメス Konparuya Gomesu	NOVEL	西條奈加?さいじょうなか Saijō Naka Saijou Naka
58	50	Hammered	NOVEL	Elizabeth Bear
59	50	The Duke's Ballad	NOVEL	Lyn McConchie and Andre Norton
60	50	The Fran That Time Forgot	NOVEL	Jim Benton
61	50	Anywhere But Here	NOVEL	Jerry Oltion
62	50	Pay the Piper	NOVEL	Adam Stemple and Jane Yolen
63	50	War Surf	NOVEL	M. M. Buckner
64	50	Whales on Stilts	NOVEL	M. T. Anderson
65	50	Daughters of an Emerald Dusk	NOVEL	Katherine V. Forrest
66	50	Eclipse	NOVEL	K. A. Bedford
67	50	A Breath of Snow and Ashes	NOVEL	Diana Gabaldon
68	50	Creepers	NOVEL	David Morrell
69	50	Dread in the Beast	NOVEL	Charlee Jacob
70	50	Scarecrow Gods	NOVEL	Weston Ochse
71	50	ゴーディーサンディー?Gōdīsandī Goodiisandii	NOVEL	照下土竜?ひのしたもぐら Hinoshita Mogura
72	50	Le goût de l'immortalité?Le gout de l'immortalite	NOVEL	Catherine Dufour
73	50	Alégracia et le Serpent d'Argent	NOVEL	Dominic Bellavance
74	35	Secret Stories	NOVEL	Ramsey Campbell
75	35	Crash Deluxe	NOVEL	Marianne de Pierres
76	35	Für immer in Honig	NOVEL	Dietmar Dath
77	35	Nowhere Near an Angel	NOVEL	Mark Morris
78	35	サマー／タイム／トラベラー1?Sama / Taimu / Toraberā 1	NOVEL	新城カズマ?しんじょうかずま Kazuma Shinjō Kazuma Shinjou
79	35	サマー／タイム／トラベラー2?Sama / Taimu / Toraberā 2	NOVEL	新城カズマ?しんじょうかずま Kazuma Shinjō Kazuma Shinjou
80	35	Siberia	NOVEL	Gwyneth Jones
81	35	The Stinky Cheese Gypsies	NOVEL	Stephen Axelsen
82	35	Chainfire	NOVEL	Terry Goodkind
83	35	La possibilité d'une île?La possibilite d'une ile	NOVEL	Michel Houellebecq
84	35	Sassycat: The Night of the Dead	NOVEL	Richard Harland
85	35	Destroyer	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
86	35	Sunstorm	NOVEL	Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke
87	35	Metallic Love	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
88	35	Romanitas	NOVEL	Sophia McDougall
89	35	The Hounds of Avalon	NOVEL	Mark Chadbourn
90	35	No Sister of Mine	NOVEL	Jeanne G'Fellers
91	35	The Innocent Mage	NOVEL	Karen Miller
92	35	Another War	NOVEL	Simon Morden
93	35	Bang Bang stirbt	NOVEL	Rob Alef
94	35	By These Ten Bones	NOVEL	Clare B. Dunkle
95	35	Migration	NOVEL	Julie E. Czerneda
96	35	Darkwitch Rising	NOVEL	Sara Douglass
97	35	Heartwood	NOVEL	Barbara Campbell
98	35	Haunted	NOVEL	Chuck Palahniuk
99	35	Beyond Black	NOVEL	Hilary Mantel
100	35	Olympos	NOVEL	Dan Simmons
101	35	A Brother's Price	NOVEL	Wen Spencer
102	35	Remains	NOVEL	Mark W. Tiedemann
103	35	Mister Boots	NOVEL	Carol Emshwiller
104	35	From the Files of the Time Rangers	NOVEL	Richard Bowes
105	35	The Amethyst Road	NOVEL	Louise Spiegler
106	35	Designated Targets	NOVEL	John Birmingham
107	35	Wizards at War	NOVEL	Diane Duane
108	35	Lone Wolf	NOVEL	Edo van Belkom
109	35	The Girl in the Glass	NOVEL	Jeffrey Ford
110	35	In the Midnight Museum	NOVEL	Gary A. Braunbeck
111	35	Dark Tales of Time and Space	NOVEL	Sean Wright
112	35	Little Fur	NOVEL	Isobelle Carmody
113	35	The Silences of Home	NOVEL	Caitlin Sweet
114	35	Labyrinth	NOVEL	Kate Mosse
115	35	Forteresse	NOVEL	Georges Panchard
116	35	Mundos y demonios	NOVEL	Juan Miguel Aguilera
117	35	The New Policeman	NOVEL	Kate Thompson
118	35	Метро 2033?Metro 2033	NOVEL	Дмитрий Глуховский?Dmitry Glukhovsky
119	35	Chasing the Bard	NOVEL	Philippa Ballantine
120	35	Siren Promised	NOVEL	Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson
121	35	Der Zeitkrieg	NOVEL	Andreas Brandhorst
122	35	The Hides	NOVEL	Kealan Patrick Burke
123	35	Car je suis légion	NOVEL	Xavier Mauméjean?Xavier Maumejean
124	35	Blanche: ou, La triple contrainte de l'enfer	NOVEL	Hervé Jubert?Herve Jubert
125	35	Quantico	NOVEL	Greg Bear
126	35	Les chemins de Damas	NOVEL	Pierre Bordage
127	35	Furor	NOVEL	Markus C. Schulte von Drach
128	35	Reptilia	NOVEL	Thomas Thiemeyer
129	35	November Mourns	NOVEL	Tom Piccirilli
130	35	Le sacre des orties	NOVEL	Jérôme Noirez?Jerome Noirez
131	35	Venusia	NOVEL	Mark von Schlegell
132	35	Surrender	NOVEL	Sonya Hartnett
133	35	Misfortune	NOVEL	Wesley Stace
134	35	デカルトの密室?でかると の みっしつ Dekaruto no Misshitsu	NOVEL	瀬名秀明?せな ひであき Hideaki Sena
135	35	シャングリ・ラ?Shanguri Ra	NOVEL	池上永一?いけがみえいいち Ikegami Eiichi
136	35	Keepers	NOVEL	Gary A. Braunbeck
137	35	The Wave Theory of Angels	NOVEL	Alison MacLeod
138	35	RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone	NOVEL	Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman
139	35	The Necessary Beggar	NOVEL	Susan Palwick
140	35	Les archipels du temps	NOVEL	Daniel Sernine
141	35	Aurélie et l'île de Zachary	NOVEL	Véronique Drouin
142	35	Le Dragon de l'Alliance	NOVEL	Michèle Laframboise?Michele Laframboise
143	35	The Stone Ship	NOVEL	Peter Raftos
144	35	Shapers of Darkness	NOVEL	David B. Coe
145	35	The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Resistance	NOVEL	Vin Suprynowicz
146	30	Perros bajo la piel	NOVEL	Luis Ángel Cofiño
147	30	Der Metamorph	NOVEL	Andreas Brandhorst
148	30	Thud!	NOVEL	Terry Pratchett
149	30	Tintenblut	NOVEL	Cornelia Funke
150	29	Fifty Degrees Below	NOVEL	Kim Stanley Robinson
151	29	Sherlock Holmes y las huellas del poeta	NOVEL	Rodolfo Martínez
152	28	Esperando la marea	NOVEL	Joaquín Revuelta
153	28	The Plucker	NOVEL	Brom
154	27	The Children of the Company	NOVEL	Kage Baker
155	27	Rocket Science	NOVEL	Jay Lake
156	26	Conrad's Fate	NOVEL	Diana Wynne Jones
157	26	Old Twentieth	NOVEL	Joe Haldeman
158	26	Mélusine	NOVEL	Sarah Monette
159	25	Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land	NOVEL	John Crowley
160	25	The Prodigal Troll	NOVEL	Charles Coleman Finlay
161	25	TWOC	NOVEL	Graham Joyce
162	23	Pushing Ice	NOVEL	Alastair Reynolds
163	23	Bear Daughter	NOVEL	Judith Berman
164	23	Shaman's Crossing	NOVEL	Robin Hobb
165	22	City of Flowers	NOVEL	Mary Hoffman
166	21	Glass Soup	NOVEL	Jonathan Carroll
167	21	Zahrah the Windseeker	NOVEL	Nnedi Okorafor
168	20	The House of Storms	NOVEL	Ian R. MacLeod
169	20	Singer of Souls	NOVEL	Adam Stemple
170	20	The World Before	NOVEL	Karen Traviss
171	19	The Sledding Hill	NOVEL	Chris Crutcher
172	19	Spotted Lily	NOVEL	Anna Tambour
173	18	Lady of Mazes	NOVEL	Karl Schroeder
174	18	Fly by Night	NOVEL	Frances Hardinge
175	18	Snake Agent	NOVEL	Liz Williams
176	17	The Narrows	NOVEL	Alex Irvine
177	16	Knife of Dreams	NOVEL	Robert Jordan
178	14	The Rosetta Codex	NOVEL	Richard Paul Russo
179	13	Devices and Desires	NOVEL	Tom Holt
180	12	Mind's Eye	NOVEL	Paul J. McAuley
181	12	Godplayers	NOVEL	Damien Broderick
182	10	Tumbling After	NOVEL	Paul Witcover
183	1	Resurrection of Liberty	NOVEL	Michael L. Wentz
184	1	The Icebound Land	NOVEL	John Flanagan
185	1	Mists of Everness	NOVEL	John C. Wright
186	1	Priestess of the White	NOVEL	Trudi Canavan
187	1	Child of Earth	NOVEL	David Gerrold
188	1	The Weapon	NOVEL	Michael Z. Williamson
189	1	Pretties	NOVEL	Scott Westerfeld
190	1	Infernal	NOVEL	F. Paul Wilson
191	1	The Rat and the Raven	NOVEL	Kerry Greenwood
192	1	Breathe	NOVEL	Penni Russon
193	1	ベルカ、吠えないのか？?Beruka, Hoenai no ka?	NOVEL	古川日出男?Hideo Furukawa
194	1	Noble Vision	NOVEL	Gen LaGreca
195	1	3000 Years	NOVEL	Richard Mgrdechian
196	1	Die Rache der Zwerge	NOVEL	Markus Heitz
197	1	Argóarflísin	NOVEL	Sjón?Sjon
198	1	Magic Street	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
199	1	終末の海?しゅうまつのうみ Shūmatsu no Umi Shuumatsu no Umi	NOVEL	片理誠?へんりまこと Henri Makoto
200	1	ルドルフ・カイヨワの憂鬱?ルドルフ・カイヨワのゆううつ Rudorufu Kaiyowa no Yūutsu Rudorufu Kaiyowa no Yuuutsu	NOVEL	北國浩二?きたくにこうじ Kōji Kitakuni Koji, Hokkoku
201	1	Hanteringen av odöda	NOVEL	John Ajvide Lindqvist
202	1	Oh Pure and Radiant Heart	NOVEL	Lydia Millet
203	1	Nine Letters Long	NOVEL	J. C. Burke
204	1	Checkmate	NOVEL	Malorie Blackman
205	1	Garden of the Purple Dragon	NOVEL	Carole Wilkinson

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