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Originally Posted by HarryT
No surprise to see that the great classics of the 19th and early 20th centuries still dominate the list.
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To be honest, I think that won't ever change. The classics will stay on these lists because everybody says they should. It often looks as there isn't room for anything 'new'. For me, Lord of the Rings (1954) *definitely* should have been in that list, as well as Shogun (1975), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1932).
(Edit: Bounty could maybe be removed as the authors were American. Clavell and Tolkien are British, AFAIK; or at least, born in a part of the world that was part of the British Empire.)