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Editors' Choices
The Ten Best Books of the Year

Sunday, December 4, 2005; BW03

Fiction

The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss

March, by Geraldine Brooks

The March, by E.L. Doctorow

On Beauty, by Zadie Smith

Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie

Nonfiction

The Assassins' Gate, by George Packer

Bury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild

Melville, by Andrew Delbanco

Night Draws Near, by Anthony Shadid

Shake Hands With the Devil, by Romo Dallaire

Nonfiction

The Assassins' Gate, by George Packer

Bury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild

Melville, by Andrew Delbanco

Night Draws Near, by Anthony Shadid

Shake Hands With the Devil, by Romo Dallaire

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