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. 401.
    Anthony Blunt: His Lives
    by Miranda Carter

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  2. 402.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian Mcewan

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  3. 403.
    Bad Blood: A Memoir
    by Lorna Sage

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  4. 404.
    Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  5. 405.
    Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
    by Margaret Macmillan

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  6. 406.
    Roscoe
    by William Kennedy

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  7. 408.
    The Bounty : The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Caroline Alexander

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  8. 409.
    Brick Lane: A Novel
    by Monica Ali

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  9. 410.
    Drop City
    by T.C. Boyle

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  10. 411.
    The Fortress of Solitude
    by Jonathan Lethem

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  11. 412.
    Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
    by William Taubman

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  12. 413.
    The Known World: A Novel
    by Edward P. Jones

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  13. 414.
    Living to Tell the Tale
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  14. 415.
    Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

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  15. 416.
    Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
    by Claire Tomalin

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  16. 417.
    Alexander Hamilton
    by Ron Chernow

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  17. 418.
    Chronicles: Volume One (Chronicles)
    by Bob Dylan

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  18. 419.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  19. 420.
    The Master: A Novel
    by Colm Toibin

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  20. 421.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

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  21. 422.
    Runaway
    by Alice Munro

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  22. 423.
    Snow
    by Orhan Pamuk

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  23. 424.
    War Trash
    by Ha Jin

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  24. 425.
    Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
    by David Hackett Fischer

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  25. 426.
    Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    by Stephen Greenblatt

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  26. 427.
    The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
    by George Packer

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  27. 428.
    de Kooning: An American Master
    by Mark Stevens

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  28. 429.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami

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  29. 430.
    The Lost Painting
    by Jonathan Harr

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  30. 431.
    On Beauty
    by Zadie Smith

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  31. 432.
    Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
    by Tony Judt

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  32. 433.
    Prep: A Novel
    by Curtis Sittenfeld

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  33. 434.
    Saturday
    by Ian Mcewan

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  34. 435.
    Veronica
    by Mary Gaitskill

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  35. 436.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion

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  36. 437.
    Absurdistan: A Novel
    by Gary Shteyngart

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  37. 438.
    The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
    by Amy Hempel

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  38. 439.
    The Emperor's Children (Vintage)
    by Claire Messud

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  39. 440.
    Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
    by Danielle Trussoni

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  40. 441.
    The Lay of the Land (Vintage Contemporaries)
    by Richard Ford

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  41. 442.
    The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
    by Lawrence Wright

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  42. 443.
    Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
    by Nathaniel Philbrick

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  43. 444.
    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    by Michael Pollan

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  44. 445.
    The Places In Between
    by Rory Stewart

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  45. 446.
    Special Topics in Calamity Physics
    by Marisha Pessl

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  46. 447.
    Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
    by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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  47. 449.
    Man Gone Down: A Novel
    by Michael Thomas

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  48. 450.
    The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
    by Jeffrey Toobin

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