Top 100 books of the last 25 years
So the Daily Telegraph has published a list of the top 100 books of the last 25 years, as determined by asking the staff of Waterstone's (a British bookstore) for their five favorite books of the period.
I was suprised to see so many books on the list that had been turned into movies. I wonder if it is because good books are made into movies, or because having a movie made of a book makes people remember it better when surveyed. The latter would account for the presence of The Da Vinci code and Nick Horny on the list. . .
The list also bolsters my conviction that Margaret Atwood is the best writer of the last 25 years, with Ian McEwan and Haruki Murakami duking it out for a distant second.
Posted by coughlin at 11:04 PM