NYT 10 Best Books of 2005

The New York Times provided a preview of their 10 best books of 2005. Check out the article for the full details, but here is the list itself:

Fiction
—Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, published by Knopf
—ON BEAUTY by Zadie Smith, published by Penguin Press
—Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, published by Random House
—Saturday by Ian McEwan, published by Nan A. Talese
—Veronica by Mary Gaitskill, published by Pantheon Books

Nonfiction
—The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
—De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, published by Knopf
—The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr, published by Random House
—Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt, published by Penguin Press
—The Year of Magical Thinking b Joan Didion, published by Knopf