1905 in literature

See also: 1904 in literature, other events of 1905, 1906 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• The first of several chapters of I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である) by Natsume Sōseki are published serially in Hototogisu.

New books

• A Diary from Dixie – Mary Boykin Chesnut
• Heretics – G. K. Chesterton
• The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
• The Invasion of the Sea – Jules Verne
• King Leopold's Soliloquy – Mark Twain
• Kipps – H.G. Wells
• The Lake – George Moore (novelist)
• The Lighthouse at the End of the World – Jules Verne
• A Little Boy Lost – W. H. Hudson
• The Marriage of William Ashe – Mary Augusta Ward
• Orthdoxy – G. K. Chesterton
• The Saint – Antonio Fogazzaro
• The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
• A Waif's Progress – Rhoda Broughton
• Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
• White Fang  – Jack London

Births

• January 31 – John O'Hara, writer (d. 1970)
• February 2 – Ayn Rand, author (d. 1982)
• February 7 – Paul Nizan, author (d. 1940)
• February 11 – Elizabeth Vuyk, Dutch/Indonesian writer.
• May 20 – Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
• December 21 – Anthony Powell, British novelist, (d. 2000)

Deaths

• March 25 – Jules Verne, author
• September 18 – George MacDonald, author

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz