I do not know the backstory to this list, but I wanted to include it as a companion to other compiled lists (i.e. Time, Newsweek, World Library list, etc.). Unlike the other lists, it includes works of non-fiction.

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message 1: by Ben (last edited Sep 12, 2011 07:06PM) (new)

Ben Deleted for not being part of original list:

A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race
1984


message 2: by Ben (new)

Ben I wish I'd noticed this before....

The reason that there are 57 books on the list of the "50 Greatest Books" is because Proust's In Search of Lost Time is included, along with several of the seven volumes that make up the massive novel (i.e. Swann's Way, Captive & Fugitive, etc.) Similarly, the two parts of Faust are included, and there might be others.

Strange that the Globe & Mail would set it up this way.


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