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You add books to the list at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."

Uh, you add books at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes," not here in the comments section.

Also, authors cannot currently add their own books; too many authors were adding them to outrageously inappropriate lists.

OK, I misread the instructions. That list represents some of the books I've published over the past 14 years. Thanks for the heads-up.

PS: I had clicked "back to top" and thought I was there. Since this comment box has "add book/author" above it, I thought this was the right place.

PPS: I have deleted all the offending items.

Oh, they aren't offending me in any way - GR often doesn't explain things nearly as well as they think they do.

"Add book/author" is to add a link to the page for the book or author to the text, like this: Florence Weinberg.

I THINK Cormac McCarthy lives in Santa Fe, NM.

What is the qualifier to be on this list? Currently living in Texas? Wrote a book set in Texas? Once lived in Texas? Was in Texas briefly for research?

I can’t find Erik Larson ever living anywhere south of Pennsylvania.
Laura Esquivel is a Mexican National, born and currently living in Mexico City where she serves as an elected representative for her district.
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island, moved to Tennessee when he was a 4 year old child. Raised and even went to college in Knoxville. He did move to El Paso Texas in the 1970’s but moved to New Mexico in the 1990’s where he is a trustee for the Santa Fe Institute.
Kinky Friedman I give you even though born in Chicago. His family moved to Texas when a child and he ran for Texas governor in 2006. He’s about as Texan as you can get,
Same for Susan Wittig Albert born in Illinois but became a professor at University of Texas and was faculty at Southwest Texas State. She and husband have been homesteading in the hill country of Texas for 30 years.