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Originally Posted by LovesMacs
Three of these authors didn't write in English (and Homer likely didn't write per se) and all of them wrote more than 30 years ago, so no, by the Amazon list's logic they must not be essential reading.
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Jane Austen wrote more than 30 years ago.
Also, sorry I discovered that Dickens was on the list.
The announcement I read didn't state that the books had to be written in English, but I guess they need to be available in English. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote in Spanish as an example.