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The College Board publishes a recommended reading list, while emphasizing that it "does not mandate any particular authors or reading list." The reading list contains four major categories: Poetry, ranging from the 16th century (William Shakespeare) to contemporary poets (Seamus Heaney);
“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.” So wrote John Cage, composer, teacher, and lifelong student.And he had a ...
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"Classic Books" reading lists are used at some universities [2] [3] and have been in modern vogue since at least the early part of the 20th century, with the additional impetus in 1909 of the Harvard Classics publishing imprimatur having individual works chosen by outgoing Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot.
Many publishers have lists of best books, defined by their own criteria.This article enumerates some lists for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by ...
“As soon as the first breeze of fall dawns upon me, I'm like, ‘It is time,’” says Michelle Lecumberry, a book influencer who also works in the publishing industry. While she enjoys books ...
The purpose of the annual list it to provide librarians and library workers with a resource to use for collection development and readers advisory purposes." [1] In addition there is a "Best of the Best" list of the top 10 titles, made available since 1997. [2] The list has been published since 1930 when it was founded as "Best Books for Young ...
Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4] The list was also criticized for its lack of genres such as graphic fiction , science fiction , fantasy , and children's literature . [ 5 ]