This has already been posted to a bunch of blogs, but in case you missed it Time Magazine has selected their All Time 100 book list. Selected from all English language novels published since 1923 (Time Magazine's birth date), you will find both expected and unexpected titles on the list. After going through the list I am sad to report that I've read only 13 of the 100 books on the list:

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Why is it that the majority of these lists are always comprised of books that many readers only read in school? It is as if by default a book that could be read solely for pleasure has to be excluded from a top 100 list. I always enjoy looking at these "best of" lists, but I always end up irritated by their content. Regardless, you can see the complete list here.

On a more fun note, while trolling around the website I found a link to a Time article from April 22, 1966 called Dirty Book of the Month. I'm thinking this would be something fun for my website. At the very least I should make it a feature at my library so MK knows what to read next. :-)

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