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2005 New York Times Book Review

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

Posted by Richard Dooling on Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 at 1:16 pm.

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