Lists of Bests: New York Times's "Editor's Picks 1968-2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/39230 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. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:21:46 GMT en-us 0 50 466 50 0 Anti-memoirs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5547798 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5547798"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kNpzLO8FL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by André Malraux</div> The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66445"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452272793.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Mailer</div> A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/774643 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/774643"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812991834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by V.S. Pritchett</div> George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940 : The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (Collected Essays Journalism and Letters of George Orwell) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52384 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52384"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567921337.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Confessions of a Disloyal European http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856401 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856401"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01CWT9JVDBL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jan Myrdal</div> Double Helix (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64961 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64961"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684852799.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. Watson</div> The First Circle (European Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25026 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0810115905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</div> His toy, his dream, his rest: 308 dream songs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856402 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berryman</div> Lytton Strachey: The New Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/421270 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/421270"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393327191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Holroyd</div> Soul on Ice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10115 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10115"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/038533379X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eldridge Cleaver</div> Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18688 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18688"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679725229.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> Akenfield (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856409 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856409"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01VQT5WEM1L.jpg" /></a></div> Bullet Park http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335058 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/9500427451.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Cheever</div> The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1533 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1533"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060976675.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Lessing</div> Henry James: A Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856410 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856410"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01G6WJQCAAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leon Edel</div> The Inland Island http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2215004 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2215004"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1884910246.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josephine Winslow Johnson</div> Life on Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856412 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodor Rosebury</div> The Limits of Intervention http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/956663 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/956663"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393304272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Townsend Hoopes</div> Literature and the Sixth Sense http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856459 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Rahv</div> Living Room War (Television Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856460 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856460"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11QB35JJEAL.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael J. Arlen</div> On Movies (A Da Capo paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856461 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dwight MacDonald</div> The Ruined Map: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9283 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9283"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726527.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kobo Abe</div> Styles of Radical Will http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6372 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6372"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312420218.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Sontag</div> Supergrow - Essays & Reports on Imagination in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5548004 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin DeMott</div> Them (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1036692 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1036692"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345484401.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joyce Carol Oates</div> Bech: A Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934499 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1934499"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/044900452X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057190955_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> City Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5548005 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Barthelme</div> Cocteau: A Biography (Nonpareil Books, No 40) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584154 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584154"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/087923606X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057196156_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Francis Steegmuller</div> Coming Crisis Western Sociol (His Studies in the series on the social origins of social theory) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856467 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gouldner</div> Crisis In The Classroom, The Remaking of American Education http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856468 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles E. Silberman</div> Inside the Third Reich http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2530270 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2530270"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842127357.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Speer</div> Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801-1805 (Jefferson & His Time (University of Virginia Press)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1038069 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1038069"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813923646.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dumas Malone</div> Losing Battles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/646705 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/646705"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679728821.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eudora Welty</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/458026 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/458026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156027577.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James MacGregor Burns</div> Sexual Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225859 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/225859"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0252068890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Millett</div> Zelda: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56511 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56511"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060910690.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Milford</div> Bound to Violence (African Writers) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856470 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856470"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01T1GAZ86ML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yambo Ouologuem</div> Eleanor & Franklin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2752692 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2752692"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568520751.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Lash</div> The European Discovery of America: Vol 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 (European Discovery of America, the Northern Voyages A. D. 50) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856472 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856472"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11DCN2PRJ3L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Eliot Morison</div> The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2670690 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2670690"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1565844033.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Morris Titmuss</div> Rabbit Redux http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732763 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2732763"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141188545.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250773 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/250773"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0815624999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edmund Wilson</div> The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5525 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300097433.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> The Children of Pride: Selected letters of the family of the Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones from the years 1860-1868 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284597 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284597"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0300040539.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Manson Myers</div> The Coming of Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/338887 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/338887"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/039331443X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Simone de Beauvoir</div> Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6913 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6913"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316159190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134514748_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frances FitzGerald</div> A Theory of Justice: Original Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010614 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010614"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674017722.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Rawls</div> Gravity's Rainbow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3014"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140283382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856474 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2856474"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GGE70AP0L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Clive</div>