There is a long list, some good, some I never heard of. Some old favorites are missing. Like the C.S. Lewis Narnia stories. Nothing by Andre Norton. No Montgomery Atwater stories. No Poul Anderson. The Borrowers are missing. Nothing by Edgar Rice Burroughs. No Jules Verne. No Three Musketeers.
Then it does have some awful distopias, Lord of the Flies and The Giver. I suppose they made it in because English teachers like distopias and assign them as required reading.
Then the ranking is odd. Harry Potter comes in as #1, with Lord of the Rings pushed down to #7. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is #8, but his much better Martian Chronicles is missing all together. Just how the list was put together is not given, apparently there was some editorial weeding out, and some listener voting, but just how good a list it is, is unclear. It might reflect the likings of NPR staff, or just NPR listeners, or it might be more broadbased.
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