New York Times's "Editor's Picks 1968-2008"

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Since 1968 the New York Times has published their selections for the best books of every year. The lists have fluctuated in size from as few as three to as many as 17 in a given year. Most of the selection years the books of been chosen from their larger "Notable Books of the Year." All selections are found in the New York Times Book Review and are often published during the Holiday period. In recent years the books have been split into non-fiction and fiction and have been limited to a definitive 10.

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  1. 1.
    Anti-memoirs
    by André Malraux

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    A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil
    by V.S. Pritchett

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  3. 5.
    Confessions of a Disloyal European
    by Jan Myrdal

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  4. 6.
    Double Helix (Scribner Classics)
    by J. Watson

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  5. 7.
    The First Circle (European Classics)
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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    His toy, his dream, his rest: 308 dream songs
    by John Berryman

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  7. 9.
    Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
    by Michael Holroyd

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  8. 10.
    Soul on Ice
    by Eldridge Cleaver

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  9. 11.
    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  10. 13.
    Bullet Park
    by John Cheever

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  11. 14.
    The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)
    by Doris Lessing

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  12. 15.
    Henry James: A Life
    by Leon Edel

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  13. 16.
    The Inland Island
    by Josephine Winslow Johnson

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    Life on Man
    by Theodor Rosebury

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  15. 18.
    The Limits of Intervention
    by Townsend Hoopes

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    Literature and the Sixth Sense
    by Philip Rahv

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  17. 20.
    Living Room War (Television Series)
    by Michael J. Arlen

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    On Movies (A Da Capo paperback)
    by Dwight MacDonald

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  19. 22.
    The Ruined Map: A Novel
    by Kobo Abe

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  20. 23.
    Styles of Radical Will
    by Susan Sontag

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    Supergrow - Essays & Reports on Imagination in America
    by Benjamin DeMott

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  22. 25.
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  23. 26.
    Bech: A Book
    by John Updike

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    City Life
    by Donald Barthelme

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  25. 28.
    Cocteau: A Biography (Nonpareil Books, No 40)
    by Francis Steegmuller

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    Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education
    by Charles E. Silberman

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    Inside the Third Reich
    by Albert Speer

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  28. 33.
    Losing Battles
    by Eudora Welty

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  29. 34.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  30. 35.
    Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945
    by James MacGregor Burns

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  31. 36.
    Sexual Politics
    by Kate Millett

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  32. 37.
    Zelda: A Biography
    by Nancy Milford

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  33. 38.
    Bound to Violence (African Writers)
    by Yambo Ouologuem

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  34. 39.
    Eleanor & Franklin
    by Joseph Lash

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  35. 41.
    The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy
    by Richard Morris Titmuss

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  36. 42.
    Rabbit Redux
    by John Updike

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  38. 46.
    The Coming of Age
    by Simone de Beauvoir

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  39. 47.
    Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
    by Frances FitzGerald

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  40. 48.
    A Theory of Justice: Original Edition
    by John Rawls

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  41. 49.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  42. 50.
    Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
    by John Clive

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