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

  2. 2.
    On Beauty
    by Zadie Smith

  3. 3.
    Prep: A Novel
    by Curtis Sittenfeld

  4. 4.
    Saturday
    by Ian McEwan

  5. 5.
    Veronica: A Novel
    by Mary Gaitskill

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

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

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

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

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

  11. 11.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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

  13. 13.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

  14. 14.
    Runaway
    by Alice Munro

  15. 15.
    Snow
    by Orhan Pamuk

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

  17. 17.
    Alexander Hamilton
    by Ron Chernow

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

  19. 19.
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    Chronicles: Volume 1
    by Bob Dylan

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

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

  22. 22.
    Brick Lane
    by Monica Ali

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

  24. 24.
    The Fortress of Solitude
    by Jonathan Lethem

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

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

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

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

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

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

  31. 31.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

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

  33. 33.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

  35. 35.
    Roscoe
    by William Kennedy

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

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

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

  39. 40.

  40. 41.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

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

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

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

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

  45. 47.
    Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
    by Matt Ridley

  46. 48.
    Gertrude and Claudius: A Novel
    by John Updike

  47. 49.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

  48. 50.
    The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3)
    by Philip Roth

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Comments

crap — 7 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..




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