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

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. Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
  
2. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
  
3. Prep: A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
  
4. Saturday
by Ian McEwan
  
5. Veronica: A Novel
by Mary Gaitskill
  
6. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
  
7. De Kooning : An American Master
by Mark Stevens
  
8. The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by Jonathan Harr
  
9. Postwar : A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
  
10. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
  
11. Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
  
12. The Master: A Novel
by Colm Toibin
  
13. The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
  
14. Runaway
by Alice Munro
  
15. Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
  
16. War Trash : A novel
by HA JIN
  
17. Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
  
18. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
  
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 Chronicles: Volume 1
by Bob Dylan
  
20. Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by David Hackett Fischer
  
21. The Bounty : The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
by Caroline Alexander
  
22. Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
  
23. Drop City
by T.C. Boyle
  
24. The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
  
25. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman
  
26. The Known World: A Novel
by Edward P. Jones
  
27. Living to Tell the Tale
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
28. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  
29. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
by Claire Tomalin
  
30. Anthony Blunt: His Lives
by Miranda Carter
  
31. Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
  
32. Bad Blood: A Memoir
by Lorna Sage
  
33. Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
34. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret Macmillan
  
35. Roscoe
by William Kennedy
  
36. Seeing in the Dark : How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
by Timothy Ferris
  
37. Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Winfried Georg Sebald
  
38. Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
by Paula Fox
  
39. The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
  
40. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
by Alice Munro
  
41. John Adams
by David McCullough
  
42. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
  
43. True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
  
44. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
by Oliver Sacks
  
45. Being Dead: A Novel
by Jim Crace
  
46. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
47. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
  
48. Gertrude and Claudius
by John Updike
  
49. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
  
50. The Human Stain: A Novel
by Philip Roth
  
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Created by eissme on Mar 18, 2006.