1905 in literature

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The year 1905 in literature involved some significant new books.

Events

• L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales are published in The Delineator magazine from January to September.
• 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.
• Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.

New books

• Edwin Lester Linden Arnold - Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation
• L. Frank Baum - Queen Zixi of Ix
  • - The Fate of a Crown (as "Schuyler Staunton")
• Margarete Böhme - The Diary of a Lost Girl
• Rhoda Broughton - A Waif's Progress
• Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
• Mary Boykin Chesnut - A Diary from Dixie
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• Antonio Fogazzaro - The Saint
• E. M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
• W. H. Hudson - A Little Boy Lost
• Jack London - White Fang
• Heinrich Mann - Professor Unrat
• George Moore - The Lake
• Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The Case of Miss Elliot
  • By the Gods Beloved
• Hjalmar Söderberg - Doctor Glas
• Mark Twain - King Leopold's Soliloquy
• Jules Verne - Invasion of the Sea
  • The Lighthouse at the End of the World
• Elizabeth von Arnim - Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
• Mary Augusta Ward - The Marriage of William Ashe
• H.G. Wells - Kipps
• Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

New drama

• Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance
• Sacha Guitry - Nono
• J.M. Synge - The Well of the Saints

Non-fiction

• G. K. Chesterton
  • Heretics
  • Orthodoxy

Births

• January 6 - Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1953)
• January 31 - John O'Hara, writer (died 1970)
• February 2 - Ayn Rand, author (died 1982)
• February 7 - Paul Nizan, author (died 1940)
• February 11 - Elizabeth Vuyk, Dutch/Indonesian writer
• March 31 - Kulap Saipradit (pen name Siburapha), Thai novelist (died 1974)
• May 16 - H. E. Bates, novelist (died 1974)
• May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (died 1962)
• May 24 - Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet/Russian novelist (died 1984)
• June 20 - Lillian Hellman, dramatist (died 1984)
• June 21 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French author (died 1980)
• July 25 - Elias Canetti, novelist (died 1994)
• September 5 - Arthur Koestler, novelist and social philosopher (died 1983)
• October 15 - C. P. Snow, novelist (died 1980)
• December 4 - Munro Leaf, children's author (died 1974)
• December 21 - Anthony Powell, British novelist, (died 2000)
• December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic (died 1982)

Deaths

• January 19 - Debendranath Tagore, philosopher
• February 15 - General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
• March 20 - Antonin Proust, journalist
• March 25 - Jules Verne, author
• May 23 - Mary Livermore, journalist
• August 22 - David Binning Monro, expert on Homer
• September 18 - George MacDonald, author
• October 28 - Alphonse Allais, humorist
• December 3 - John Bartlett, publisher
• December 9 - Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb classical commentator
• December 12 - William Sharp, poet, biographer and novelist
• December 20 - Henry Harland, novelist and editor
• December 29 - Creeve Roe, poet
• date unknown - R. C. Lehmann, editor of Punch magazine

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz