NYT Top Ten

NYT has released its "Best 10 Books of 2005." I'd like to say I've read them all, but I'm afraid reality is just the opposite:

Kafka on the Shore (fiction)
By Haruki Murakami.

On Beauty (fiction)
By Zadie Smith

Prep (fiction)
By Curtis Sittenfeld

Saturday (fiction)
By Ian McEwan

Veronica (fiction)
By Mary Gaitskill

The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq (non-fiction)
By George Packer

De Kooning: An American Master (non-fiction)
By Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan

The Lost Painting (non-fiction)
By Jonathan Harr

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (non-fiction)
By Tony Judt

The Year of Magical Thinking (non-fiction)
By Joan Didion