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[quote=Anonymous]That's the problem with their method. When you ask 500 people to list their top ten books of the century, most of them (and I think I'd do the same) are going to list personal favorites. They aren't going to think about big picture - like intentionally picking authors of different cultural backgrounds, books from various genres, books in translation, important nonfiction topics, etc. unless the books naturally fit in to their personal favorites. And it's just more likely that more mainstream books are going to picked most often and everyone's less mainstream books weren't chosen by enough people to make the list. I also think we probably don't have enough distance yet to create a good list of 21st century books. But I still think it's been fun to look through and talk about! [/quote]
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