The complete list of 10 previously published lists that we drew upon includes The Telegraph’s 110 best books/The Perfect Library, The Guardian’s top 100 books, Oprah’s Book Club, the St. John’s College reading list, Wikipedia’s list of all-time bestsellers, the New York Public Library’s books of the century, the Radcliffe Publishing Course’s list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, The Modern Library’s 100 best novels and 100 best works of nonfiction, Time’s 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present, and NEWSWEEK’s own list of current top 50 choices, which is being published this week.Their resultant list of 100 top books is at this link. I won't comment any further except to wonder why Ulysses keeps making it to "best books" lists.
In a slightly different vein is a list of Science Fiction Books that Launched Their Own Genres. Utopia, apocalyptic futures, time travel, first contact, alternate history, space opera, cyberpunk, steampunk, and Gothic.
I tried to read Ulysses a year or two ago and just couldn't get into it...perhaps I need to try again.
ReplyDelete*so* happy to see Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at #7. That book is a color allegoric masterpiece.