New York Times Best Books of 2005

On December 11th, the New York Times Book Review ran their list of the 10 Best Books of 2005. Their selection is comprised of a number of genres, including fiction, memoir, history, biography and current events.

The top titles of this year are:

Fiction

• KAFKA ON THE SHORE by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
  
• ON BEAUTY by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
  
• PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House)
  
• SATURDAY by Ian McEwan (Talese/Doubleday)
  
• VERONICA by Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon)
  

• THE ASSASSIN'S GATE: America in Iraq, by George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  
• DE KOONING: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Knopf)
  
• THE LOST PAINTING by Jonathan Harr (Random House)
  
• POSTWAR: A History of Europe Since 1945, by Tony Judt (Penguin Press)
  
• THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion (Knopf)
  

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