The paper has announced their ten best books of 2008, which looks a lot like a Knopf catalog:
Fiction
DANGEROUS LAUGHTER, by Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
A MERCY, by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
NETHERLAND, by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
2666, by Roberto Bolano (FSG)
Nonfiction
THE FOREVER WAR, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF, by Julian Barnes (Knopf)
THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING, by Drew Gilpin Faust (Knopf)
THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS, by Patrick French (Knopf)
THE DARK SIDE, by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)
Separately, USA Today has a guide to holiday books in multiple categories. Among “bestsellers,” the top “critic’s pick” is Dennis Lehane’s THE GIVEN DAY.