Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
I counted them and today you have 1,001 titles on your list of the "999 Greatest Works". What gives?
You've caught us. But check back later and you'll see the number of listed titles once again matches the number in the headline. The numbers of works in the other lists—like the "777 greatest novels" and "444 greatest stories"—temporarily get out of whack too.
This is because the lists are in continual flux. In each category we are always discovering a deserving title or two and want to add it before we've had time to review the entire list to decide which title(s) can be removed to keep the total number as advertised. You can imagine what an anguished decision deleting a book from a "greatest of all time" list can be.
Also, sometimes we are encouraged by new research or changing tastes to take a book off a list or move it to a different list, and we haven't quite yet settled on an appropriate book to add to keep the numbers topped up.
In both cases we soon get it right. Until then, we let the list sit slightly high or slightly low.
We figure most readers, unlike you, are not going to count every book on a list to see if the number is exactly right!
