The American Library Association has chosen the following Random House, Inc. titles for its Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2005. This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community:

• The Archives of the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
• Electric Universe by David Bodanis
• K. by Roberto Calasso
• The Memoirs of Catherine the Great translated by Markus Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom
• Israel on the Appomattox by Melvin Patrick Ely
• Armageddon by Max Hastings
• Exuberance by Kay Redfield Jamison
• General George Washington by Edward Lengel
• Power, Terror, Peace, and War by Walter Russell Mead
• Somerset Maugham by Jeffrey Meyers
• The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
• Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis by Dan Rockmore
• Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
• The Whole Equation by David Thomson
• Malraux by Olivier Todd
• The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman by Alexander Tsiaras and Barry Werth