So click this link to go to NEWSWEEK.COM'S list of the 100 greatest books of all time. I love lists like this. This one should actually be called, “100 Books You Need To Read In Order To Live In The World”.
Since I’m basically an English Major, I have to listen to people talk a lot about “the canon of English literature!” but no one exactly maintains a list or anything. English professors seem to feel that they are specifically tasked with carrying the burden of maintaining the canon. They seem to feel that they have some almost divine responsibility. And maybe they do, but they should relax about it.
Anyway, sorry about the digression.
The point is that I wish that this list could become the list that English professors the world over used when assigning reading. This list has Winnie the Pooh, among others.
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