Best Of 2005

The New York Times has come up with its ten ‘best books of 2005‘. On the fiction list: Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep, Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica, and Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. On the non-fiction list, Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking made the cut.

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