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. 251.
    Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

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  2. 252.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  3. 253.
    The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  4. 254.
    Original Intent and the Framer's Constitution
    by Leonard W. Levy

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  5. 256.
    The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
    by Paul Kennedy

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  6. 257.
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    Stories In An Almost Classical Mode
    by Harold Brodkey

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  7. 258.
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    The Tenants of Time
    by Thomas Flanagan

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  8. 259.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver

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  9. 260.
    Billy Bathgate
    by E. L. Doctorow

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  10. 261.
    Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
    by Simon Schama

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  11. 262.
    Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
    by Ian Gibson

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  12. 263.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

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  13. 264.
    From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter)
    by Thomas L. Friedman

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  14. 265.
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    Harold Macmillan: 1894-1956 (Harold MacMillan)
    by Alistair Horne

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  15. 266.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes

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  16. 267.
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    HOW WAR CAME
    by Donald Cameron Watt

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  17. 270.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  18. 271.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  19. 272.
    The Shawl
    by Cynthia Ozick

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  20. 274.
    The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
    by Anna Akhmatova

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  21. 275.
    Friend of My Youth: Stories
    by Alice Munro

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  22. 276.
    Lawrence of Arabia
    by Jeremy Wilson

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  23. 277.
    London Fields
    by Martin Amis

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  24. 278.
    My Son's Story
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  25. 279.
    Omeros
    by Derek Walcott

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  26. 280.
    Possession: A Romance
    by A.S. Byatt

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  27. 281.
    Rabbit at Rest
    by John Updike

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  28. 282.
    The Search for Modern China
    by Jonathan D. Spence

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  29. 283.
    Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
    by Deirdre Bair

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  30. 284.
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

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  31. 286.
    Vladimir Nabokov : The Russian Years
    by Brian Boyd

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  32. 287.
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    Complete Collected Stories
    by V.S. Pritchett

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  33. 288.
    Consciousness Explained
    by Daniel C. Dennett

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  34. 289.
    Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
    by Lawrence L. Langer

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  35. 290.
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    The Journals of John Cheever (Vintage International)
    by John Cheever

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  36. 291.
    A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906
    by John Richardson

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  37. 292.
    Mating: A Novel
    by Norman Rush

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  39. 294.
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    The Truth About Chernobyl
    by Grigori Medvedev

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  40. 295.
    Two Lives
    by William Trevor

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  41. 296.
    Wartime Lies: A Novel
    by Louis Begley

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  42. 298.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

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  43. 299.
    Jazz
    by Toni Morrison

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  44. 300.
    Kissinger: A Biography
    by Walter Isaacson

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