Lists of Bests: New York Times's "Best Books of the Years 1996-2008" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/861 A list of the books the Times has thought to be the best, as published in the NY Times Book review from 1996-2008 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:52:24 GMT en-us 0 50 125 50 0 Kafka on the Shore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61S4qiYiwTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46327 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54316845_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> Prep: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67700 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67700"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bZhiDbLQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Curtis Sittenfeld</div> Saturday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10503 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10503"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418QUoHdhOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Veronica: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70874 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70874"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375421459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gaitskill</div> The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63299 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63299"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374299633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Packer</div> De Kooning : An American Master http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54850 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/54850"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400041759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Stevens</div> The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51773 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51773"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A5BXH038L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Harr</div> Postwar : A History of Europe Since 1945 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107811 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107811"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594200653.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tony Judt</div> The Year of Magical Thinking http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59245 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/59245"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414NSZ9WX7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> Gilead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AGS2CVVXL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> The Master: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517KoY9RmaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colm Toibin</div> The Plot Against America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60479 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60479"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P3VkiW6VL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Runaway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88494 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88494"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515W530EB1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> Snow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57969 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57969"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KXqZOeEmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orhan Pamuk</div> War Trash : A novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8872 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8872"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375422765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by HA JIN</div> Alexander Hamilton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32845 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32845"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ArR2suXoL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Chernow</div> Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368196 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368196"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512U5BtCx8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Greenblatt</div> Chronicles: Volume 1 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/274664 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bob Dylan</div> Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4551 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4551"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195170342.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Hackett Fischer</div> The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589651 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589651"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415IifujlaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Caroline Alexander</div> Brick Lane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/480230 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/480230"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E8LQQA.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Monica Ali</div> Drop City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VC7795VBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> The Fortress of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w7euH3gmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> Khrushchev: The Man and His Era http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589668 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589668"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AuKCZn6hL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Taubman</div> The Known World: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/865 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/865"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d8bh%2BcAaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward P. Jones</div> Living to Tell the Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107337 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107337"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VRfS-OOfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21150 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21150"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510TA2HMBJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc</div> Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9262 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9262"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BCH4V9T0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire Tomalin</div> Anthony Blunt: His Lives http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589680 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589680"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412GR02D4BL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miranda Carter</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fS5vrBjZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Bad Blood: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103716 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/103716"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EB4Phbi9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorna Sage</div> Middlesex: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41i5MhshNKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9412 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9412"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MsuYNex4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret MacMillan</div> Roscoe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3578 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3578"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X0DJHuxcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Kennedy</div> Seeing in the Dark : How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/235331 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/235331"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K5GD3HA8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Timothy Ferris</div> Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GA06C9KEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winfried Georg Sebald</div> Borrowed Finery: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165006 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/165006"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805071849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paula Fox</div> The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wr09D9LZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589718 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589718"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ETW5V6G3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> John Adams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20899 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/20899"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517oIyvrNDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David McCullough</div> The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8647 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8647"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515WNWqnweL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Menand</div> True History of the Kelly Gang http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16366 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16366"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FC4yl8f3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Carey</div> Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9081 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9081"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51q%2BB7IdkHL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> Being Dead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6036 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6036"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lWmIGHXbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Crace</div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gQ5CjZXtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589749 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589749"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060194979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matt Ridley</div> Gertrude and Claudius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13398 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13398"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41809218WYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gD4huNtaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BnKKxqd2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div>