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Amazon's 100 Must Read Books
Amazon Announces 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
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Only 10 of them.
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About 13 for me, but Valley of the Dolls? Really??
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47 here. And a handful or two that are on my TBR, like The Secret History, Life After Life, and Gone Girl.
I'm not particularly impressed by the SF choices - Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheit 451, yes, but Dune over Hitchhiker's Guide? |
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Were any of them in the public domain?
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Just 6 of them
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32. but helped along by Where the Wild Things Are, the enforced reading of Great Expectations, and, err, Valley of the Dolls.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat sent me on a 2 year nonfiction binge - serious gateway drug, that one. |
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Looks like it's 11 for me:
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The Secret History is in my TBR pile too - I'm a little leery of it, since the last author that was hyped that hard to me was a massive, smug disappointment. A lot more WTH? on the GR's list, but also some titles Amazon missed - Watership Down and Grapes of Wrath should maybe replace a few of those bestsellers, maybe. |
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40. I don't think the list is close to great, I mean Percy Jackson? I read it but it is not on my top 100.
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It seems they are trying to make it a "lifetime of reading", hence the children's and teen books being a big part. I think if you surveyed middle-grade/teens right now, Percy Jackson would make top ten if not top five. In ten or twenty years, maybe not so much; time will tell.
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