otherwise, mostly same old same old. Fortunately for you I still know how to look up the Larry McCaffery list.
The stuff I don’t know is, admittedly, depressingly, writers-of-color stuff besides the obligatory Native Son and Invisible Man.

Peyton Place? Really? I heard that was badly dated shit with no shock value these days. That’s like every time I’ve heard it mentioned, too.

I don’t know how to judge A Wrinkle In Time as an adult. It’s probably a good thing for kids to read, but when I read it in 5th grade I was in a Catholic school and I think they were weirdly loath to talk about the communist metaphors. I think I tried reading the last part of it at a Thanksgiving get together with my family because it was laying around in the basement and the metaphors struck me as stunningly obvious, but would have been completely over my head when I was 11.

I like The Stand, sort of. And I wouldn’t include it.

I wonder if it is really just lit critics keeping Housekeeping alive on all these lists. I agree that it’s a skilled bit of writing, but remove the skill and I wonder if you’re left with…like, the most navel gazing book imaginable. Or not that, but maybe a book too psychological for its own good.

Not one, but TWO Octavia E. Butler books! One of which I actually did read!

Blonde? Really?

Sad confession: I am one hundred percent unfamiliar with anything listed from the last 10 years.