New York Times's "Best Books of the Years 1996-2008"

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A list of the books the Times has thought to be the best, as published in the NY Times Book review from 1996-2008

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  1. 1.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami

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  2. 2.
    On Beauty
    by Zadie Smith

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  3. 3.
    Prep: A Novel
    by Curtis Sittenfeld

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  4. 4.
    Saturday
    by Ian McEwan

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  5. 5.
    Veronica: A Novel
    by Mary Gaitskill

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  6. 6.
    The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
    by George Packer

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  7. 7.
    De Kooning : An American Master
    by Mark Stevens

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  8. 8.
    The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
    by Jonathan Harr

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  9. 9.
    Postwar : A History of Europe Since 1945
    by Tony Judt

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  10. 10.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion

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  11. 11.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  12. 12.
    The Master: A Novel
    by Colm Toibin

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  13. 13.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

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  14. 14.
    Runaway
    by Alice Munro

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  15. 15.
    Snow
    by Orhan Pamuk

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  16. 16.
    War Trash : A novel
    by HA JIN

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  17. 17.
    Alexander Hamilton
    by Ron Chernow

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  18. 18.
    Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    by Stephen Greenblatt

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    Chronicles: Volume 1
    by Bob Dylan

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  20. 20.
    Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
    by David Hackett Fischer

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  21. 21.
    The Bounty : The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Caroline Alexander

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  22. 22.
    Brick Lane
    by Monica Ali

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  23. 23.
    Drop City
    by T.C. Boyle

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  24. 24.
    The Fortress of Solitude
    by Jonathan Lethem

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  25. 25.
    Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
    by William Taubman

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  26. 26.
    The Known World: A Novel
    by Edward P. Jones

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  27. 27.
    Living to Tell the Tale
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  28. 28.
    Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

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  29. 29.
    Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
    by Claire Tomalin

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  30. 30.
    Anthony Blunt: His Lives
    by Miranda Carter

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  31. 31.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

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  32. 32.
    Bad Blood: A Memoir
    by Lorna Sage

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  33. 33.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  34. 34.
    Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
    by Margaret Macmillan

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  35. 35.
    Roscoe
    by William Kennedy

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  36. 37.
    Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Winfried Georg Sebald

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  37. 38.
    Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
    by Paula Fox

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  38. 39.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  40. 41.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

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  41. 42.
    The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
    by Louis Menand

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  42. 43.
    True History of the Kelly Gang
    by Peter Carey

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  43. 44.
    Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
    by Oliver Sacks

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  44. 45.
    Being Dead: A Novel
    by Jim Crace

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  45. 46.
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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  46. 47.
    Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
    by Matt Ridley

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  47. 48.
    Gertrude and Claudius
    by John Updike

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  48. 49.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  49. 50.
    The Human Stain: A Novel
    by Philip Roth

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treespotter
Jakarta

crap — 3 years ago

the list is not crap. i am. i can’t believe i’ve only read one on this list… weird… realy. i do much better on the other lists… hmm..