Frequently Asked Questions

 

•  Have you read every book on the list?

•  Then how can you know what the greatest books of all time are?

•  Are these the books everyone should read?

•  What's your own favourite book?

•  I mean, what's your favourite modern book?

•  No, I mean your favourite book of the past fifty years.

•  What's your least favourite book?

•  Are there really so many modern books that should be ranked with the greatest of all time on your list?

•  Why don't you include children's literature?

•  Why so few nonfiction books? They're great literature too, aren't they?

•  How do you read so much?

•  Do you reread books?

•  Isn't all this keeping of lists this ranking of books, rather superficial? Doesn't it run counter to the spirit of true literary appreciation?

•  What are your desert island books?

•  What should I read next?

•  I don't have that much time. Just tell me: what are the few books I must read?

•  I counted them and you have 998 (or 1,000) titles on your list of the "999 Greatest Works". What gives?

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See also:

Selected Authors: Commentaries

Selected Works: Commentaries

How the Greatest Literature was selected

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