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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I've read 10 of the list, but I'm not overly impressed with the list. No Twain, no Tolstoy, no Balzac, no serious S/F (except PKD's Ubik, which wasn't even his best work), and no Voltaire....
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"English language novels published anywhere in the world since 1923, the year that TIME Magazine began"
By "ALL-TIME" they mean "all of Time Magazine's history".
I was surprised to see I'd read 13 of them (maybe 12, as I can't remember which Pynchon novel I read as an early teen'. I would suggest my comprehension of it was limited, resulting in the corresponding limited memory).
Books I haven't read that are on the list, but which I would like to, are
The Grapes of Wrath,
To Kill A Mocking Bird,
The Blind Assassin,
Infinite Jest &
Watchmen. There are others on the list, but I've listed the above as they are specific books I want to read, as opposed to authors that I'd eventually like to read (eg. Virginia Woolf, Cormac McCarthy).
Cheers,
Marc