This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2005.
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Randa Abdel-Fattah – Does My Head Look Big in This?
Isobelle Carmody – Alyzon Whitestarr
Kate Constable – The Tenth Power
Gary Crew – The Lace Maker's Daughter
Morris Gleitzman – Once
Kerry Greenwood – The Rat and the Raven
Sonya Hartnett – Surrender
Barry Jonsberg – It's Not All About You, Calma!
Justine Larbalestier – Magic or Madness
Victor Kelleher – Dogboy
Mardi McConnochie – Fivestar
Garth Nix – Drowned Wednesday
Penni Russon – Breathe
Scott Westerfeld
Pretties
Touching Darkness
Uglies
Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
Robert G. Barrett – Crime Scene Cessnock
John Birmingham – Designated Targets: World War 2.2
Peter Corris – Saving Billie
Colin Cotterill – Thirty-Three Teeth
Michelle de Kretser – The Hamilton Case
Garry Disher – Snapshot
Greg Flynn – The Berlin Cross
Robert Gott – A Thing of Blood
Kerry Greenwood – Death by Water
Gabrielle Lord – Dirty Weekend
P. D. Martin – Body Count
Chris Nyst – Crook as Rookwood
Leigh Redhead – Rubdown
Matthew Reilly – Seven Ancient Wonders
Michael Robotham – Lost
Heather Rose – The Butterfly Man
Steve J. Spears – Innocent Murder
Peter Temple – The Broken Shore
Lilian Darcy – The Father Factor
Marion Lennox – Bride by Accident
Science fiction and fantasy
K. A. Bedford – Eclipse
Damien Broderick – Godplayers
Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Well of Tears
Marianne de Pierres – Crash Deluxe
Sara Douglass – Darkwitch Rising
Kate Forsyth – The Shining City
Catherine Jinks – Evil Genius
Juliet Marillier – The Blade of Fortriu
Sean Williams
Ascent
The Blood Debt
The Hanging Mountains
Chris Aronsten – Human Resources
Jane Brodie – A Single Act
Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum
Alan Gould – The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003
John Kinsella – The New Arcadia
Jennifer Maiden – Friendly Fire
Jaya Savige – Latecomers
R.J.B. Bosworth – Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945
Richard Broome – Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800
Helen Ennis – Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography
Pamela Freeman – The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years
Tom Keneally – A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
Maria Nugent – Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet
John Baxter – We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light
Richie Benaud – My Spin on Cricket
Eric Campbell – Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places
Maryanne Convoy – Morris West: Literary Maverick
Peter C. Doherty – The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science
Graham Freudenberg – A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir
Gavin Fry – Albert Tucker
Aneurin Hughes – Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party
Sandy McCutcheon – The Magician's Son
William McInnes – A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad
Brenda Niall – Judy Cassab: A Portrait
Barry Pearce – Jeffrey Smart
Jacob G. Rosenberg – East of Time
Mandy Sayer – Velocity
Craig Sherborne – Hoi Polloi
Steve Waugh – Out of My Comfort Zone
Elizabeth Wynhausen – Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market
11 April – John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)
10 May – Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)
30 May – Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)
29 August – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born 1934)
8 September – Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)
14 October – Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)
1 November – Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)
24 December – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1922)
2005 in Australian literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
