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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    Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet
    by Paul Zweig

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  2. 202.
    With a Daughter's Eye
    by Mary Catherine Bateson

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    All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran
    by Gary Sick

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  5. 206.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes

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  6. 207.
    Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
    by Richard Holmes

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  7. 208.
    House
    by Tracy Kidder

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    Love Medicine
    by Louise Erdrich

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  9. 210.
    Mr. Palomar
    by Italo Calvino

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    Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
    by Joseph Lelyveld

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  11. 212.
    The Old Forest and Other Stories (Modern Library)
    by Peter Taylor

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  12. 213.
    The Periodic Table
    by PRIMO LEVI

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  13. 214.
    Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
    by David K. Shipler

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  14. 215.
    Arctic Dreams
    by Barry Lopez

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  15. 216.
    Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid
    by William Finnegan

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    FDR: The New York Years: 1928-1933
    by Kenneth S. Davis

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  17. 218.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  20. 223.
    Out of India: Selected Stories
    by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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  21. 224.
    A Perfect Spy
    by John le Carre

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  22. 225.
    The Progress of Love
    by Alice Munro

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  23. 226.
    Roger's Version
    by John Updike

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  24. 227.
    Saints and Strangers (King Penguin)
    by Angela Carter

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    The Vanished Imam: Musa Al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon
    by Fouad Ajami

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  26. 229.
    Velazquez: Painter and Courtier
    by Jonathan Brown

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  27. 230.
    Whites
    by Norman Rush

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    An arrow in the wall: Selected poetry and prose
    by Andrei Voznesensky

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  29. 232.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  30. 233.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

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  31. 234.
    Chaos: Making a New Science
    by James Gleick

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  32. 235.
    The Counterlife
    by Philip Roth

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  33. 237.
    Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939
    by Martin Stannard

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  34. 238.
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

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  35. 239.
    More Die of Heartbreak (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  36. 240.
    Staring at the Sun
    by Julian Barnes

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    Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987
    by Bob Woodward

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  39. 243.
    World's End (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by T.C. Boyle

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  40. 244.
    Arabesques: A Novel
    by Anton Shammas

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  41. 246.
    Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition
    by Michael Holroyd

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    A Brief History of Time
    by Stephen Hawking

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    Coming of Age in the Milky Way
    by Timothy Ferris

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    Dictionary of the Khazars (F)
    by Milorad Pavic

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