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. 101.
    On Photography (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Susan Sontag

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  2. 102.

  3. 103.
    Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing With a New Afterword
    by Richard Poirier

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  4. 104.
    Samuel Johnson
    by Walter Jackson Bate

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  5. 105.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  6. 106.
    Staying On
    by Paul Scott

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  7. 107.
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    The Coup
    by John Updike

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  8. 108.
    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
    by Michel Foucault

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  9. 109.
    E. M. Forster: A Life (A Harvest Book)
    by P. N. Furbank

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  10. 110.
    The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
    by Eudora Welty

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  11. 111.
    The Facts of Life
    by Maureen Howard

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  12. 112.
    Final Payments
    by Mary Gordon

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  13. 113.
    The Flounder (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)
    by Gunter Grass

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  14. 114.
    In Patagonia (Penguin Classics)
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  15. 115.

  16. 116.
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    Leon Trotsky
    by Irving Howe

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  17. 117.
    Lying Low (William Abrahams Book)
    by Diane Johnson

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  18. 119.
    Stories
    by Doris Lessing

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  19. 120.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever

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  20. 121.
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    Wrinkles
    by Charles Simmons

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  21. 122.
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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  22. 123.
    A Bend in the River (Vintage International)
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  23. 124.
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    The Boer War: Illustrated Edition
    by Thomas Pakenham

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  24. 127.
    The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology
    by Horace Freeland Judson

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  25. 128.
    The Executioner's Song
    by Norman Mailer

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  26. 129.
    The Ghost Writer
    by Philip Roth

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  27. 130.
    Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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  28. 131.
    The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  29. 132.
    King of the Jews: A Novel
    by Leslie, Epstein

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  30. 133.
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    The man who kept the secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA
    by Thomas Powers

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  31. 134.
    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Edmund Morris

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  32. 136.
    Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Elizabeth Hardwick

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  33. 137.
    Too Far to Go
    by John Updike

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  34. 138.
    The White Album
    by Joan Didion

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  35. 139.
    White House Years
    by Henry Kissinger

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  36. 140.
    China Men
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  37. 142.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

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  38. 143.
    Conrad in the Nineteenth Century
    by Ian Watt

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  39. 144.

  40. 145.
    Falling in Place
    by Ann Beattie

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  41. 146.
    Italian Folktales
    by Italo Calvino

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  42. 147.
    Loon Lake: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  43. 148.
    Man in the Holocene (Swiss Literature)
    by Max Frisch

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  44. 149.
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    Nature and Culture

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  45. 150.
    Walt Whitman: A Life (Perennial Classics)
    by Justin Kaplan

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