2005 BEST BOOKS – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Fiction
- Kafka On The Shore, by Haruki Murakami
- On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
- Prep: A Novel, by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Saturday, by Ian McEwan
- Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill
Nonfiction
- The Assassin’s Gate: America In Iraq, by George Packer
- De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan
- The Lost Painting, by Jonathan Harr
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, by Tony Judt
- The Year Of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
