2005 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards
Adult Fiction Winner
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
Adult Fiction Honor Books
- Eventide by Kent Haruf (Knopf)
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Random House)
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Penguin Press)
Adult Nonfiction Winner
- Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (Random House)
Adult Nonfiction Honor Books
- Candyfreak by Steve Almond (Algonquin and Harcourt)
- The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, Robert Mankoff (Ed.) (Black Dog & Leventhal)
- Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin's)
- Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
Children's Literature Winner
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett, illustrated by Brett Helquist (Scholastic Press)
Children's Literature Honor Books
- Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan (Scholastic)
- Ida B ... and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
- Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (Disney Editions)
- The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (Richard Jackson/Antheneum/Simon & Schuster)
Children's Illustrated Winner
- Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Children's Illustrated Honor Books
- Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henke (Greenwillow/HarperCollins)
- Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
- Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle (Philomel/Penguin USA)
- Wild About Books by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Marc Brown (Knopf Books for Young Readers)