[5mv2]

Interesting.

Number of the 100 of his favorite books written before year X:

1500 6

1900 29

1950 24

1990 41

2022 0

→ it's all pretty recent, which is surprising for a Taleb reader

→ but 0 was written in the last 30y!

Also, 0 of the books he read in the last 30y made it to his 100 favorites list.

When I did the same exercise, 50% of my favorite books were readings from early adulthood. It scared me: am I not learning anymore? I hope I'm not the only one.

[Jtsummers]

> Also, 0 of the books he read in the last 30y made it to his 100 favorites list.

He hasn’t ranked his favorites. He has listed them in chronological order of reading. He has a second page of favorites which are more recent.

[JKCalhoun]

It's possible you read the best first. We collectively seem to have anointed plenty of books as "best" — perhaps that's where you began.

[gnuj3]

Looks like The Road by McCarthy (2006) is marked as his favourite but for some reason is not included on the favourites list.

[froh]

the list has a second page, unintuitively linked from the _top_ of the first one:

https://www.artgarfunkel.com/books2.html

[gnuj3]

Ah, I missed it. Thanks!