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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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1. Anti-memoirs
by André Malraux
 
2. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
by Norman Mailer
 
3. A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil
by V.S. Pritchett
 
4. George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940 : The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (Collected Essays Journalism and Letters of George Orwell)
by George Orwell
 
5. Confessions of a Disloyal European
by Jan Myrdal
 
6. Double Helix (Scribner Classics)
by J. Watson
 
7. The First Circle (European Classics)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
 
8.
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His toy, his dream, his rest: 308 dream songs
by John Berryman
 
9. Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
by Michael Holroyd
 
10. Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver
 
11. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
 
12. Akenfield (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)  
13. Bullet Park
by John Cheever
 
14. The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)
by Doris Lessing
 
15. Henry James: A Life
by Leon Edel
 
16. The Inland Island
by Josephine Winslow Johnson
 
17.
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Life on Man
by Theodor Rosebury
 
18. The Limits of Intervention
by Townsend Hoopes
 
19.
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Literature and the Sixth Sense
by Philip Rahv
 
20. Living Room War (Television Series)
by Michael J. Arlen
 
21.
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On Movies (A Da Capo paperback)
by Dwight MacDonald
 
22. The Ruined Map: A Novel
by Kobo Abe
 
23. Styles of Radical Will
by Susan Sontag
 
24.
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Supergrow - Essays & Reports on Imagination in America
by Benjamin DeMott
 
25. Them (Modern Library)
by Joyce Carol Oates
 
26. Bech: A Book
by John Updike
 
27.
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City Life
by Donald Barthelme
 
28. Cocteau: A Biography (Nonpareil Books, No 40)
by Francis Steegmuller
 
29.
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Coming Crisis Western Sociol (His Studies in the series on the social origins of social theory)
by Gouldner
 
30.
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Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education
by Charles E. Silberman
 
31. Inside the Third Reich
by Albert Speer
 
32. Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801-1805 (Jefferson & His Time (University of Virginia Press))
by Dumas Malone
 
33. Losing Battles
by Eudora Welty
 
34. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
35. Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945
by James MacGregor Burns
 
36. Sexual Politics
by Kate Millett
 
37. Zelda: A Biography
by Nancy Milford
 
38. Bound to Violence (African Writers)
by Yambo Ouologuem
 
39. Eleanor & Franklin
by Joseph Lash
 
40. 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
 
41. The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy
by Richard Morris Titmuss
 
42. Rabbit Redux
by John Updike
 
43. Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York Classics)
by Edmund Wilson
 
44. The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose
by T. S. Eliot
 
45. 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
 
46. The Coming of Age
by Simone de Beauvoir
 
47. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances FitzGerald
 
48. A Theory of Justice: Original Edition
by John Rawls
 
49. Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
 
50. Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian
by John Clive
 
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