>>7279281Not a fan of reading lists produced by committee, especially when I don't even know who the committee is. I'd rather just get recommendations from a handful of people I trust. And anyway, though I'm impressed by some of the inclusions (certainly wasn't expecting to see Padgett Powell), that list is WAY too heavily weighted towards books published in the last 100 years. I guess it's supposed to be a list of novels, which have only been prevalent over the past few centuries, but that doesn't explain the inclusion of a poem like The Lusiads or the essay A Modest Proposal. Anyway, they need to fix it up a little, change the title from "Books" to "Novels", and make new lists for poems, short stories, plays, mythological and religious texts, essays, criticism, memoirs, biographies, histories, philosophical texts and other nonfiction.
