The Telegraph offers 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (warning: it's a weird list). Not to be outdone, The Guardian offers 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (this one's a long list).
The Telegraph offers 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (warning: it's a weird list). Not to be outdone, The Guardian offers 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (this one's a long list).
Why has 1000 (or 1001) become the number of books to put on a list? I feel like such lists are purposefully daunting, and furthermore, it makes you wonder if all 1000 books on that list are equivalent in quality.
ReplyDeleteI do love lists though, and it was fun to skim these one.