Kazuo Ishiguro's
Never Let Me Go, a brilliantly unsettling story of a contemporary Britain whose
slight dissimilarity to the one we know becomes clearer as the tale progresses,
is perhaps the best novel yet by one of the United Kingdom's finest writers, and it tops
our list of the
best fiction of 2005. Our top five:
Best Books of 2005: Customers' Favourites in
Nonfiction
Freakonomics, the debut collaboration between "rogue economist" Steven D.
Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner, came out of nowhere to top our list of
the
bestselling nonfiction books on Amazon.ca in 2005 (in the meantime, leaving a trail of "The
dismal science isn't dismal anymore!" headlines behind). Our customers' top
five:
The votes are in, and Amazon.ca's music staff has made its selection of the very best CDs of 2005. Singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, an earnest and whimsical young man who aims to record an album based on every state in the union, tops the list with his latest venture, Illinois. Lavish praise has been heaped upon this precocious twentysomething, who weaves personal recollections, historical narratives, and strange facts together to create lush portraits of Midwestern life. More top picks:
The time has come to sit
back, reflect on the year that's passed, and then judge the heck out of it.
Thus, we present to you our editors' picks for the Best Games of
2005.
For months we have been passing around Joan Didion's
The Year of Magical Thinking, accompanied by the word wow. Her witheringly exact account of
a daughter's illness, a husband's sudden death, and a wife and mother's
bewildering grief is our choice for the top book on our list of the
best nonfiction of 2005. Our top five:
This year, Amazon.ca's gaming customers just couldn't get enough of Katamari Damacy which heads the list of bestselling PlayStation2 games. More favourites:
