4/27/2004

yet still more book lists

Little Professor offers Crescat Sententia's alternative reading list, which does have many more quirky faves of mine on it. But, to add a bit of context to this ongoing list swapping: from Daniel Traister's website, here's extracts from Allan Massie's essay comparing an 1899 list of "100 best novels," with a 1999 "100 books of the century." Just to point out the ever-fluid nature of all attempts to fix the canon (in both senses of the word).