New York Times's "Editor's Picks 1968-2009"

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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. 51.
    The Summer Before the Dark (Flamingo Modern Classic)
    by Doris Lessing

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  2. 52.
    All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
    by Theodore Rosengarten

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  3. 53.
    Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity
    by Howard E. Gruber

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  4. 54.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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  5. 55.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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  6. 56.
    Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
    by Eugene D. Genovese

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  7. 57.
    Something Happened
    by Joseph Heller

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  8. 58.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  9. 59.
    Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
    by Susan Brownmiller

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  10. 60.
    The Dead Father
    by Donald Barthelme

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  11. 61.
    Edith Wharton: A Biography
    by R. W. B. Lewis

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  12. 62.
    Far Tortuga: A Novel (Vintage)
    by Peter Matthiessen

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  13. 63.
    The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
    by Paul Theroux

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  14. 64.
    Guerrillas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  15. 65.
    Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  16. 66.
    I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
    by Leonard Michaels

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  18. 68.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  19. 69.
    A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Peter Handke

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  20. 70.
    The War Against the Jews : 1933-1945
    by Lucy S. Dawidowicz

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  21. 71.
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    Andre Malraux
    by Jean Lacouture

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  22. 72.
    The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  23. 73.
    Born on the Fourth of July
    by Ron Kovic

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  24. 74.
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    The damnable question: A history of Anglo-Irish relations
    by George Dangerfield

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  25. 75.
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    Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
    by Vladmir Nabokov

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  26. 76.
    The Easter Parade
    by Richard Yates

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  27. 77.
    Hearing Secret Harmonies
    by Anthony Powell

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  28. 78.
    Heat and Dust
    by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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  29. 79.
    October Light
    by John Gardner

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  30. 80.
    Roots
    by Alex Haley

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  31. 81.
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    Speedboat
    by Renata Adler

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  32. 82.
    To Jerusalem and Back (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  33. 83.

  34. 84.
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    A Voice from the Chorus
    by Andreii Donatcevich Sinaioavskiii

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  35. 85.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  37. 87.
    World of Our Fathers
    by Irving Howe

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  38. 88.
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    Afterimages
    by Arlene Croce

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  39. 89.
    A Book of Common Prayer
    by Joan Didion

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  40. 90.
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    Chinese Shadows
    by Simon Leys

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  41. 91.
    Coming into the Country
    by John McPhee

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  42. 92.
    Day by Day
    by Robert Lowell

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  43. 93.
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    Delmore Schwartz : The Life of an American Poet
    by Delmore] Atlas, James [Schwartz

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  44. 94.
    Dispatches
    by Michael Herr

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  45. 95.
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    Every child's birthright: In defense of mothering
    by Selma H Fraiberg

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  46. 96.
    Falconer
    by John Cheever

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  47. 97.
    Gates of Eden : American Culture in the Sixties
    by Morris Dickstein

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  48. 98.
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    The Gentle Barbarian: The Work and Life of Turgenev
    by V. S. Pritchett

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  49. 99.
    India: A Wounded Civilization
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  50. 100.
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    Edmund Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972
    by Elena ( Editor ) Wilson

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