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. 151.
    Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition
    by James H. Jones

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  2. 152.
    The Chaneysville Incident
    by David Bradley

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  3. 153.
    A Flag for Sunrise
    by Robert Stone

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  4. 154.
    The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
    by Jonathan D. Spence

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  5. 155.
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    Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Five Volumes.
    by H.C. Robbins Landon

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  6. 156.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  7. 157.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  8. 158.
    Old Glory : A Voyage Down the Mississippi
    by Jonathan Raban

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  9. 159.
    Philosophical Explanations
    by Robert Nozick

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  10. 160.
    Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas)
    by Jacobo Timerman

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  11. 161.
    Rabbit Is Rich
    by John Updike

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  12. 162.
    The White Hotel
    by D. M. Thomas

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  13. 163.
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    World Without End
    by Francine du plessix gray

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  14. 164.
    Zuckerman Unbound
    by Philip Roth

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  15. 165.
    Ake: The Years of Childhood
    by Wole Soyinka

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  16. 166.
    Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Penguin Books)
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

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  17. 167.
    Bech is Back
    by John Updike

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  18. 168.
    Burning House
    by Ann Beattie

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  19. 171.
    Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
    by Judith Thurman

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  20. 173.
    Schindler's List
    by Thomas Keneally

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  21. 175.
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    Years of Upheaval
    by Henry Kissinger

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  22. 176.
    The Anatomy Lesson
    by Philip Roth

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  23. 177.
    Attlee
    by Kenneth Harris

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  24. 178.
    Cathedral
    by Raymond Carver

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  25. 179.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  26. 180.
    During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
    by Joan Chase

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  27. 181.
    Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
    by John Updike

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  28. 182.
    Ironweed
    by William J. Kennedy

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  29. 184.
    The Moons of Jupiter
    by Alice Munro

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  30. 185.
    The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Umberto Eco

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  31. 186.
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    Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
    by Seymour M. Hersh

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  32. 187.
    The Rosenberg File: Second Edition
    by Ronald Radosh

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  33. 188.
    The Social Transformation of American Medicine
    by Paul Starr

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  34. 189.
    Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
    by John Edgar Wideman

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  35. 190.
    Dawn to the West
    by Donald Keene

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  36. 194.
    In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    by Elisabeth Griffith

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  37. 195.
    The Life and Times of Michael K
    by J.M. Coetzee

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  38. 196.
    Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories
    by E. L. Doctorow

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  39. 197.
    Machine Dreams
    by Jayne Anne Phillips

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  40. 198.
    The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
    by Jonathan D. Spence

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  41. 199.
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    The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience
    by William Shawcross

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  42. 200.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera

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