That is an intimidatingly long list! Given how amazing Beloved, The Sound and the Fury, etc., are, I'm even more impressed with the implicit endorsement for your boldfaced titles. (Surely Beloved was on the MLA 100, though?)
Nope, that was one of the biggest scandals about that list--no black women, and especially no Beloved.
If you asked me again tomorrow, at least five of those ten would change. I can rank movies all day, but I have a hard time ranking books at all.
Posted by mike p. at January 1, 2010 8:56 PM