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. 351.
    American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
    by Pauline Maier

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  2. 352.
    The Blue Flower
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

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  3. 354.

  4. 355.
    Mason & Dixon
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  5. 356.
    The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel
    by Cynthia Ozick

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  6. 357.
    Toward the End of Time
    by John Updike

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  7. 358.
    Underworld: A Novel
    by Don DeLillo

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  8. 359.
    The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
    by Timothy Ferris

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  9. 360.
    Birds of America: Stories
    by Lorrie Moore

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  10. 361.
    Cloudsplitter: A Novel
    by Russell Banks

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  11. 363.
    The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
    by Alice Munro

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  12. 364.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  13. 365.
    Preston Falls: A Novel
    by David Gates

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  14. 366.
    Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    by Ron Chernow

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  15. 367.
    To End a War (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Richard Holbrooke

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  16. 369.
    Victor Hugo: A Biography
    by Graham Robb

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  17. 372.
    Close Range : Wyoming Stories
    by Annie Proulx

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  18. 373.
    Coleridge: Volume II, Darker Reflections
    by Richard Holmes

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  19. 374.
    Disgrace
    by J. M. Coetzee

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  20. 376.
    The First World War
    by John Keegan

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  21. 377.
    Headlong: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Michael Frayn

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  22. 378.
    Morgan: American Financier
    by Jean Strouse

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  23. 379.
    Reading the Holocaust (Canto)
    by Inga Clendinnen

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  24. 381.
    A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup)
    by Roddy Doyle

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  25. 382.
    Being Dead: A Novel
    by Jim Crace

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  26. 383.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  27. 384.

  28. 385.
    Gertrude and Claudius
    by John Updike

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  29. 386.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  30. 387.
    The Human Stain: A Novel
    by Philip Roth

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  31. 389.
    Rimbaud: A Biography
    by Graham Robb

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  32. 390.

  33. 391.
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

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  34. 392.
    Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Winfried Georg Sebald

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  35. 393.
    Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
    by Paula Fox

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  36. 394.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  37. 395.

  38. 396.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

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  39. 397.
    John Henry Days
    by Colson Whitehead

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  40. 398.
    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
    by Louis Menand

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  41. 399.
    True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
    by Peter Carey

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  42. 400.
    Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
    by Oliver Sacks

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