Top 2005 books (Trending topics)

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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Freakonomics	6,957
2	The World Is Flat	1,722
3	Blink (book)	1,276
4	And Tango Makes Three	931
5	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed	661
6	The Singularity Is Near	597
7	The Glass Castle	597
8	A New Earth	593
9	100 People Who Are Screwing Up America	576
10	Skinny Bitch	453
11	Lunar Park	451
12	Commonwealth Saga	419
13	Confessions of a Video Vixen	353
14	A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book)	334
15	Mao: The Unknown Story	286
16	Everything Bad Is Good for You	279
17	Female Chauvinist Pigs	256
18	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus	239
19	The Year of Magical Thinking	228
20	Rude Britain	223
21	Busting Vegas	202
22	My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands	194
23	The Fabric of the Cosmos	187
24	Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big	183
25	1776 (book)	182
26	Consider the Lobster	169
27	The End of Poverty	167
28	Today's New International Version	165
29	South Park Conservatives	160
30	Yes Man (book)	150
31	ICon: Steve Jobs	147
32	Teacher Man	140
33	Recipes for Disaster	139
34	New English Translation	136
35	Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About	135
36	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln	134
37	The Long Emergency	133
38	Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper	131
39	Stuart: A Life Backwards	127
40	On Bullshit	125
41	Captivating (book)	123
42	The Last Duel	120
43	One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer	120
44	The Areas of My Expertise	116
45	A Man Without a Country	110
46	Assassination Vacation	109
47	Gary Schroen	106
48	The City of Falling Angels	101
49	The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl	100
50	Misquoting Jesus	98
51	Runny Babbit	95
52	The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King	94
53	Parallel Worlds (book)	94
54	Under and Alone	93
55	The World's Greatest Super-Heroes	91
56	Terry (book)	90
57	DisneyWar	89
58	Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories	88
59	2005 in literature	85
60	Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix	85
61	Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (comics)	81
62	Where Troy Once Stood	79
63	No god but God	75
64	GURPS Infinite Worlds	72
65	Mediated	70
66	The Art of Intrusion	69
67	The Fountain (comics)	69
68	The Official Razzie Movie Guide	69
69	The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)	68
70	20th Century Ghosts	68
71	Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination	68
72	Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story	67
73	What the Dormouse Said	67
74	Life Before Life	66
75	Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism	62
76	Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin	61
77	Manga Kenkanryu	61
78	Beowulf and Grendel (book)	61
79	The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East	61
80	Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder	60
81	The Redwall Cookbook	59
82	Great Lies to Tell Small Kids	58
83	Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger	58
84	Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam	58
85	Petit Larousse	57
86	Lords of Madness	56
87	Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America	54
88	Delivered from Distraction	50
89	The Myth of Hitler's Pope	49
90	Steve Marriott – All Too Beautiful...	49
91	Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation	48
92	Last Child in the Woods	48
93	102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers	47
94	The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within	46
95	Odysseus Unbound	45
96	Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945	44
97	Hitlers Bombe	43
98	Punk Farm	43
99	Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine	43
100	Bazaar Bizarre	42
101	Looking for Jake	41
102	Black Rednecks and White Liberals	41
103	May Bird and the Ever After	41
104	The Second Great Depression (book)	41
105	Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules	40
106	Character Is Destiny	40
107	Rough Crossings	40
108	Pornified	40
109	Learning Perl	39
110	The Crime of Napoleon	39
111	The Rise of Mormonism	39
112	Tricked	38
113	Beyond Chutzpah	38
114	New Cambridge Paragraph Bible	37
115	Bad Company (comics)	37
116	First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong	37
117	The Origins of the Urban Crisis	37
118	Maximum Fantastic Four	36
119	Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards	36
120	The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science	36
121	Smashed	34
122	The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley	34
123	Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow	34
124	The Bible and Its Influence	33
125	Active Liberty	33
126	Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling	33
127	The Hello, Goodbye Window	33
128	Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith	33
129	Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa	33
130	Auguries of Innocence (poems)	33
131	American Prometheus	33
132	More Flanimals	32
133	Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?	32
134	One Million A.D.	32
135	The Truth (With Jokes)	31
136	Universe (book)	31
137	Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda	31
138	Oh the Glory of It All	30
139	The FairTax Book	30
140	The Weather Makers	30
141	End of the Spear (book)	30
142	Imperial Ambitions	30
143	Together (book)	29
144	Empire of Mind	29
145	Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis	28
146	The Oxford Companion to Philosophy	28
147	Winning the Oil Endgame	28
148	Epileptic (comics)	27
149	Belushi: A Biography	27
150	I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard	27
151	Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning	27
152	The Sociopath Next Door	27
153	Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy	26
154	Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture	26
155	Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide	25
156	Mastering the Universe	25
157	New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer	25
158	The Century (book)	25
159	All His Engines	25
160	White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-blind Society	25
161	Dungeon Siege: The Battle for Aranna	25
162	Animals in Translation	25
163	The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch	24
164	Democratizing Innovation	24
165	Air Babylon	24
166	Degenerates and Perverts	24
167	Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul	24
168	Does the World Hate the United States?	24
169	Marshfield Dreams	24
170	The House of the Mosque	24
171	The Music and Art of Radiohead	23
172	The Profits of Extermination	23
173	Drugs Are Nice	23
174	Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture	23
175	Gastronomicon	23
176	The Turning (stories)	23
177	The Periodic Table of Science Fiction	23
178	Topgrading	23
179	Van Morrison: No Surrender	23
180	King of the Jews (Nick Tosches book)	23
181	Eye of the Dragon	22
182	Friends, Lovers, Chocolate	22
183	Direct Action and Democracy Today	22
184	The New Turkey	22
185	A Turning Point in National History	21
186	Beyond the Down Low	21
187	Bonjour paresse	21
188	The Dignity of the Nation	21
189	Lost and Found (book)	21
190	Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife	21
191	Piece by Piece (book)	20
192	SMARTBOMB: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution	20
193	The Success Principles	20
194	The Legacy of Jihad	20
195	Marxism and the U.S.A.	20
196	Why Mommy is a Democrat	20
197	Baseball Before We Knew It	20
198	Thieves of Baghdad	19
199	Herding Cats: A Life in Politics	19
200	Guardians of Power	19
201	The Best American Short Stories 2005	19
202	Nothing's Sacred	18
203	Kokopelli & Company	18
204	Warped Passages	18
205	The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965	18
206	Rat Scabies and The Holy Grail	18
207	Bollocks to Alton Towers	18
208	Strong at the Heart	18
209	The Pope's Children	18
210	Wrong about Japan	18
211	Thomas Jefferson: Author of America	18
212	Did God Have a Wife?	18
213	Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction	18
214	Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings	18
215	Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness	18
216	Us and Them: The Science of Identity	18
217	It's Just a Plant	18
218	Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life	18
219	Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China	18
220	The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation	17
221	Candyfreak	17
222	The Case for Peace	17
223	The Best American Poetry 2005	17
224	Marketing Nutrition	17
225	History of Lithuania (book)	17
226	The Beatles: The Biography	17
227	Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word	17
228	Lost Empires of Faerûn (accessory)	17
229	Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine	16
230	Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild	16
231	My War: Killing Time in Iraq	16
232	Stories of Strength	16
233	Fire Pony	16
234	Zen Shorts	16
235	Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough	16
236	Traumascapes	16
237	2005 in Australian literature	16
238	Winning the Future	15
239	It Takes a Family	15
240	War – Opposing Viewpoints	15
241	Cloud, Castle, Lake	15
242	Gambling 102: The Best Strategies for All Casino Games	15
243	Warriors of Legend	15
244	Radical Evolution	15
245	Brodie's Law	15
246	Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan	15
247	Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel	15
248	The Last Knight	15
249	With Every Mistake	15
250	Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies	15
251	2005 in books	15
252	The Globalized City	15
253	Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World	15
254	The Line (memoir)	15
255	How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare...	14
256	The Latham Diaries	14
257	The Industry Standard Anthology	14
258	The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother	14
259	Still, the Scraps of Prison	14
260	A Short History of Indians in Canada	14
261	Messages to the World	14
262	The Perfect Pumpkin Pie	14
263	Diary of a Spider	14
264	Conspiracy Encyclopedia	14
265	Linux Network Administrators' Guide	13
266	Heavy Metal: a Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad	13
267	The Secret Mulroney Tapes	13
268	Lawless World (book)	13
269	The New Essential Chronology	13
270	The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece	13
271	Lolly Scramble	13
272	One China, Many Paths	13
273	Leonardo, the Terrible Monster	13
274	1966 and All That (book)	13
275	Beer School	13
276	Intelligence in Nature	13
277	Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat	13
278	Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe	13
279	Lipstick Jihad	12
280	Lucky Child	12
281	The Boy with the Thorn in His Side (book)	12
282	100-Minute Bible	12
283	Polio: An American Story	12
284	The Dharma of Star Wars	12
285	Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer	12
286	A Different Universe	12
287	The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp	12
288	The Evil B.B. Chow	12
289	I Swear I Was There: The Gig That Changed the World	12
290	Državna Tajna	12
291	The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution	12
292	Nightmare in Wichita	11
293	Competitive Engineering	11
294	21st Century Game Design	11
295	Short Trips: The History of Christmas	11
296	The Last Voyage of Columbus	11
297	Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections	11
298	Adventures of Cow	11
299	God under Howard	11
300	From Lowbrow to Nobrow	11
301	The New Policeman	11
302	Advanced Perl Programming	10
303	The Truth About Hillary	10
304	Platinum Pohl	10
305	Off the Main Sequence	10
306	God's Politics	10
307	Game Design: Theory and Practice	10
308	The Wounded Surgeon (book)	10
309	On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover	10
310	Wittgenstein's Beetle (and other classic thought experiments)	10
311	A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library	10
312	Kamakhya, A Socio-Cultural Study	10
313	A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (stories)	10
314	Traité d'athéologie	10
315	New Stories from the South	9
316	The Devil in Brisbane	9
317	Fast Second	9
318	Nil: A Land Beyond Belief	9
319	Bookless in Baghdad	9
320	Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City	9
321	To Charles Fort, With Love	9
322	The Debian System	9
323	Learning C Sharp	9
324	The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir	9
325	Sounds for Silence	9
326	Silence on the Wire	8
327	The Life with God Study Bible	8
328	Israel: Opposing Viewpoints	8
329	Starwater Strains	8
330	Short Trips: A Day in the Life	8
331	Adventures of a Jelly Baby	8
332	The City in Europe and the World	8
333	Haunted in the New World	8
334	A Crazy Occupation: Eyewitness to the Intifada	8
335	Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress	8
336	Measuring the Mind	8
337	Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food	8
338	Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales	8
339	The Quotable Robertson Davies	7
340	A Twist of Lemmon	7
341	Lady Franklin's Revenge	7
342	Concise Encyclopedia of Supersymmetry	7
343	The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion	7
344	Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Commons	7
345	Rethinking Mathematics	7
346	Magic for Beginners	7
347	Pundits From Pakistan	7
348	The Strange Death of Tory England	7
349	Miracle Dog: How Quentin Survived the Gas Chamber to Speak for Animals on Death Row	7
350	One Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal	7
351	A Big Fix	7
352	Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure	7
353	Click, Clack, Splish, Splash: A Counting Adventure	7
354	Racial Culture: A Critique	7
355	Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism	7
356	World Peace Diet	7
357	Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People	7
358	Mamá, ¿por qué nadie es como nosotros?	7
359	Not Quite the Diplomat	6
360	The Train to Lo Wu	6
361	Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork	6
362	Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp	6
363	You're Different and That's Super	6
364	The Grinding House	6
365	Wildthyme on Top	6
366	Sister Freaks	6
367	Belle & Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story	6
368	Degrassi: Generations – The Official 411	6
369	The Prosperous Peasant	6
370	Escape from Earth	6
371	Wiggle (book)	6
372	Everybody Is Different: A Book for Young People Who Have Brothers or Sisters With Autism	6
373	Activist Wisdom	6
374	English Electric Canberra (book)	6
375	The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking	6
376	The Tragedy of Today's Gays	6
377	Age of Science	6
378	Dead Men Don't Leave Tips: Adventures X Africa	less than 5 views
379	Race Relations: Opposing Viewpoints	less than 5 views
380	The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia	less than 5 views
381	Toad Catchers' Creek	less than 5 views
382	Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins	less than 5 views
383	Email to the Universe	less than 5 views
384	The Politics of Bones	less than 5 views
385	Wolves (book)	less than 5 views
386	Vedmurti Taponishth SriRam Sharma Acharya	less than 5 views
387	Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth	less than 5 views
388	Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia	less than 5 views
389	The Friend Who Got Away	less than 5 views
390	UML in a Nutshell	less than 5 views
391	A View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks	less than 5 views
392	Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant	less than 5 views
393	Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs	less than 5 views
394	Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard	less than 5 views
395	The Real Life of Anthony Burgess	less than 5 views
396	Demons in Eden	less than 5 views
397	David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism	less than 5 views
398	Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Web of Ecological-Societal Crisis	less than 5 views
399	Grandpa Gazillion's Number Yard	less than 5 views
400	What Are Parents	less than 5 views
401	Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew	less than 5 views
402	Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works	less than 5 views
403	Short Trips: The Solar System	less than 5 views
404	The Journey of the Lost Boys	less than 5 views
405	The Guy's Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth and the First Year of Fatherhood	less than 5 views
406	Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light	less than 5 views
407	A Reverie for Mister Ray	less than 5 views
408	Other Worlds Than Ours	less than 5 views
409	Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline	less than 5 views
410	Year's Best SF 10	less than 5 views
411	Beyond Singularity	less than 5 views
412	Robots (anthology)	less than 5 views
413	Bitten by the Tarantula and other writing	less than 5 views
414	Constellations (book)	less than 5 views
415	Face of Courage: Morgan Tsvangirai	less than 5 views
416	Diary Of A Facelift	less than 5 views
417	Diary of a Facelift	less than 5 views
418	A Taste of Cockroach	less than 5 views
419	Little Miss Sunshine and the Wicked Witch	less than 5 views
420	The Dancing Tiger	less than 5 views
421	Behind The Lines (book)	less than 5 views
422	The Economy of Esteem	less than 5 views
423	Aidmheil: In the Name of Adventure	less than 5 views
424	A Writing Kind of Day	less than 5 views
425	Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital	less than 5 views
426	Wild Solutions	less than 5 views
427	Perl Best Practices	less than 5 views
428	Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks, Reaping Rewards	less than 5 views
429	Soldiers and Slaves	less than 5 views
430	Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe	less than 5 views
431	Jyotiprasad as a Film Maker	less than 5 views
432	Alice Next Door	less than 5 views