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by zwaps 82 days ago
Honestly, American lists are the same. Every decent English speaking author, plus some selections of other languages.

Any national worlds book list, and this explicitly includes US and UK lists, are heavily skewed and I mean ridiculously so
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lo_zamoyski 82 days ago
This is one of the criticisms[0] of at least some Great Books curricula. The skew tends too strongly towards the Anglo-American and the “canon” is too rigidly held.

[0] https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/05/great-books-e...

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throwforfeds 82 days ago
Oh for sure, agreed. These lists do well to drive traffic and sell things, but I never put much weight in them.
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