New York Times's "Editor's Picks 1968-2009"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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Anti-memoirs
by André Malraux
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
by Norman Mailer
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A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil
by V.S. Pritchett
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George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940 : The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (Collected Essays Journalism and Letters of George Orwell)
by George Orwell
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Confessions of a Disloyal European
by Jan Myrdal
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Double Helix (Scribner Classics)
by J. Watson
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The First Circle (European Classics)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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His toy, his dream, his rest: 308 dream songs
by John Berryman
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Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
by Michael Holroyd
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Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Akenfield (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) | ||
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Bullet Park
by John Cheever
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The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)
by Doris Lessing
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Henry James: A Life
by Leon Edel
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The Inland Island
by Josephine Winslow Johnson
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Life on Man
by Theodor Rosebury
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The Limits of Intervention
by Townsend Hoopes
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Literature and the Sixth Sense
by Philip Rahv
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Living Room War (Television Series)
by Michael J. Arlen
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On Movies (A Da Capo paperback)
by Dwight MacDonald
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The Ruined Map: A Novel
by Kobo Abe
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Styles of Radical Will
by Susan Sontag
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Supergrow - Essays & Reports on Imagination in America
by Benjamin DeMott
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Them (Modern Library)
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Bech: A Book
by John Updike
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City Life
by Donald Barthelme
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Cocteau: A Biography (Nonpareil Books, No 40)
by Francis Steegmuller
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Coming Crisis Western Sociol (His Studies in the series on the social origins of social theory)
by Gouldner
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Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education
by Charles E. Silberman
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Inside the Third Reich
by Albert Speer
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Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801-1805 (Jefferson & His Time (University of Virginia Press))
by Dumas Malone
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Losing Battles
by Eudora Welty
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945
by James MacGregor Burns
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Sexual Politics
by Kate Millett
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Zelda: A Biography
by Nancy Milford
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Bound to Violence (African Writers)
by Yambo Ouologuem
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Eleanor & Franklin
by Joseph Lash
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The European Discovery of America: Vol 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 (European Discovery of America, the Northern Voyages A. D. 50)
by Samuel Eliot Morison
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The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy
by Richard Morris Titmuss
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Rabbit Redux
by John Updike
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Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York Classics)
by Edmund Wilson
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose
by T. S. Eliot
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The Children of Pride: Selected letters of the family of the Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones from the years 1860-1868
by Robert Manson Myers
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The Coming of Age
by Simone de Beauvoir
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances FitzGerald
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A Theory of Justice: Original Edition
by John Rawls
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Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
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Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
by John Clive
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