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# NYT Top Ten
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3207/
- Published: 2005-12-01T16:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-01T16:05:00.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

[*NYT* has released its "Best 10 Books of 2005."](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/books/review/tenbest.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133443092-9b9x/U/8130himRj3oWdSw&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) 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