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. 302.
    The Lost Upland: Stories of Southwest France
    by W. S. Merwin

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  2. 303.
    Outerbridge Reach
    by Robert Stone

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  3. 304.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

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  4. 305.
    Young Men and Fire
    by Norman Maclean

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  5. 306.
    Across the Bridge: Stories
    by Mavis Gallant

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  6. 307.
    Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
    by Robert D. Kaplan

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  7. 308.
    Before Night Falls: A Memoir
    by Reinaldo Arenas

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  8. 309.
    William Trevor: The Collected Stories
    by William Trevor

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  9. 310.
    The Fate of the Elephant
    by Douglas H. Chadwick

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  10. 311.
    The Island: Three Tales
    by Gustaw Herling

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  11. 312.
    Jesus' Son: Stories by
    by Denis Johnson

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  12. 313.
    Judge On Trial
    by Ivan Klima

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  13. 314.
    The Last Panda
    by George B. Schaller

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  14. 315.
    Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
    by David Remnick

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  15. 316.
    Mazurka for Two Dead Men
    by Camilo Jose Cela Conde

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  16. 317.
    A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
    by Laurie Lee

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  17. 318.
    Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy
    by John Gross

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  18. 319.

  19. 320.
    Balzac: A Biography
    by Graham Robb

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  20. 321.
    Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
    by Hugh Thomas

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  21. 322.
    A Frolic of His Own
    by William Gaddis

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  22. 323.
    In the Lake of the Woods
    by Tim O'Brien

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  23. 324.

  24. 326.
    Naturalist
    by Edward O. Wilson

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  25. 327.
    Open Secrets: Stories
    by Alice Munro

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  26. 328.

  27. 329.
    A Way in the World: A Novel
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  28. 330.
    W.E.B. Dubois: Biography of a Race
    by David Levering Lewis

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  29. 331.
    The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
    by Tina Rosenberg

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  30. 333.
    Independence Day
    by Richard Ford

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  31. 334.
    The Information
    by Martin Amis

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  32. 335.
    The Island of the Day Before
    by Umberto Eco

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  33. 336.
    The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II: 1939-1955
    by Norman Sherry

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  34. 337.
    Lincoln
    by David Herbert Donald

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  35. 338.
    Overcoming Law
    by Richard A. Posner

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  36. 339.
    Sabbath's Theater
    by Philip Roth

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  37. 340.
    The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  38. 341.
    Zola: A Life
    by Frederick Brown

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  39. 342.
    After Rain: Stories
    by William Trevor

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  40. 343.
    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

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  41. 344.
    Bad Land: An American Romance
    by Jonathan Raban

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  42. 345.
    Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant, The
    by Mavis Gallant

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  43. 346.
    The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller
    by Cary Reich

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  44. 347.
    The Moor's Last Sigh
    by Salman Rushdie

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  45. 348.
    Selected Stories
    by Alice Munro

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  47. 350.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

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