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Jun 29, 2008 09:46AM
Loved this series, too much fun!
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Awesome list! These are definitely must-reads!
This is an incredible list -- thank you for putting it together, I grabbed several ideas from it after seeing you had such good taste!
I think it's kinda funny that at this moment there are 666 books on the list. So, is this list evil?!
Great idea.. Gave me some wants. Thank you Wendyb
I love the twilight series and the harry Potter series and then there are a few random books!
twilight sucks but harry potter is awsome, i really want to read 2 kill a mocking bird though
I loved the secret garden, pride and prejudice, jane eyre, and my all time favorite a tree grows in brooklyn!
WHO THE EFF voted on the top ten books? A bloody ten year old?SEVEN OUT OF TEN belong to the Harry Potter series, which was an abysmal excuse for a book!
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This list is okay if you like the endless meal of mayonnaise on white bread. The lack of writers of color here is disgraceful. To have blackface imitations such as The Help and The Secret Life of Bees and ONE book by a black author Alice Walker's The Color Purple with no Toni Morrison or John Edgar Wideman or Coatsi or Walter Mosely is a TRAVESTY. You should call yourselfves GOOD WHITE READS FOR WHITE PEOPLE. I see no bo Loks. by Native American writers- no Tommmy Orange or a recent by Kellie Ford or N Scott Momaday or LOUISE ERDRICH who is arguably one of the top five novelists in the country right now. Jessamyn Ward has TWICE won the National Book Award, and Colin Whitehead won the Pulitzer for The Underground Railroad yet not a single one of these fine writers makes your list of 66. You have no Latino or Asian American or Arab American authors. You might want to check out Julie Otsaka's two novels, or new one by Elaine Castillo or the short stories of Mia Alvar in In Country. Allso you have very few writers from countries elsewhere in the world. Straight old Us England bright white light canon.And then you have the fun books and the lightweights. It gets old, take it from me. Really OLD. You dont even have a single one of the great American gritty novels like Waiting For Nothing, Christ In Concrete, The Dogs of March , Uncle Tom's Children These Bones Are Not My Child, Beloved, the delightfl short story collelction Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories
Ernie wrote: "no Latino or Asian American or Arab American authors"Who do you think Paulo Coelho, Emem Uko, Jeet Thayil, Khaled Khosseini, Isham Cook, Gabriel García Márquez, Maria Nhambu, D.Jamaluddin Al-Jailani (I think!), Sergio Cobo are?
☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "Ernie wrote: "no Latino or Asian American or Arab American authors"Who do you think Paulo Coelho, Emem Uko, Jeet Thayil, Khaled Khosseini, Isham Cook, Gabriel García Márquez, Maria Nhambu, D.Jamalu..."Right? I know my own list has Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mandela, DuBois (multiple) and several others. But as always, anybody can (and should) add books that they don't see here but believe should be included.
