NY Times top ten books of the year

Fiction
Haruki Murakami, KAFKA ON THE SHORE
Zadie Smith, ON BEAUTY
Curtis Sittenfeld, PREP
Ian McEwan, SATURDAY
Mary Gaitskill, VERONICA

Nonfiction
George Packer, THE ASSASSINS' GATE: America in Iraq
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, DE KOONING: An American Master
Jonathan Harr, THE LOST PAINTING
Tony Judt, POSTWAR: A History of Europe Since 1945
Joan Didion, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

Funny that William Vollmann's Europe Central, which just won the National Book Award, didn't make the list.