Hundreds of hundreds of books of the century

Whose books? Which methodology?

Fellow Pilgrims,

I wasn’t over the moon about the recent New York Times list of the 100 best books of the century. Too many repeated authors (surely once is enough to appear on a list like this), too many things with literary buzz that nobody actually enjoyed. (If you’re behind a NYT paywall, here’s the list, rearranged, at Goodreads).

But I do love books…