New York Times's "Editor's Picks 1968-2012"

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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

  2. 3.
    A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil
    by V.S. Pritchett

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

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

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

  6. 8.
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    His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
    by John Berryman

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

  8. 10.
    Soul on Ice
    by Eldridge Cleaver

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

  10. 13.
    Bullet Park (Spanish Edition)
    by John Cheever

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

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

  13. 16.
    The Inland Island (A Story Press endangered classic)
    by Josephine Winslow Johnson

  14. 17.
    Life on Man
    by Theodor Rosebury

  15. 18.
    The Limits Of Intervention
    by Hoopes Townsend

  16. 19.
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    Literature and the Sixth Sense
    by Philip Rahv

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

  18. 21.
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    On Movies (A Da Capo paperback)
    by Dwight MacDonald

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

  20. 23.
    Styles of Radical Will
    by Susan Sontag

  21. 24.
    ?
    Supergrow - Essays & Reports on Imagination in America
    by Benjamin DeMott

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

  23. 26.
    Bech: A Book
    by John Updike

  24. 27.
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    City Life
    by Donald Barthelme

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

  26. 30.
    Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education
    by Charles E. Silberman

  27. 31.
    Inside the Third Reich
    by Albert Speer

  28. 33.
    Losing Battles
    by Eudora Welty

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

  30. 35.
    Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom: Volume 2, 1940-1945
    by James MacGregor Burns

  31. 36.
    Sexual Politics
    by Kate Millett

  32. 37.
    Zelda: A Biography
    by Nancy Milford

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

  34. 39.
    Eleanor & Franklin
    by Joseph Lash

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

  36. 42.
    Rabbit Redux
    by John Updike

  37. 44.

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

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

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

  41. 49.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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

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