Literary Award Winners 2005

23 winning results across 22 literary prizes in the catalogue for 2005. Years follow each prize’s official award cycle: the NBCC uses the books’ eligibility year, while its ceremony takes place the following year. Author prizes are labelled separately.

Prizes represented: The Booker Prize; Hugo Award for Best Novel; International Booker Prize; National Book Award for Fiction; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Nobel Prize in Literature; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Women's Prize for Fiction; Nebula Award for Best Novel; Pulitzer Prize for Biography; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; German Book Prize; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; Premio Strega; Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction; National Book Award for Poetry; Akutagawa Prize; National Book Award for Young People’s Literature; National Book Award for Nonfiction; Prix Goncourt; Pulitzer Prize for History. Joint winners and historical format categories are shown separately. This list reflects available records; it does not imply that every literary prize has been announced or included.