Seems like everybody is keen to celebrate six decades worth of literature with the one book per year formula. Cued by the sixtieth anniversary of the Cheltenham Literary Festival, The Times makes their list of favorite reads, from 1949 through 2009, all the while helpfully linking to the original Times reviews. There are, of course, the usual suspects (1984, Lolita) alongside pleasant surprises (Play It As It Lays, Salem's Lot), and a fair amount of pish-toshing British commenters who balk at what the list missed and what it holds up as best books ("Who would soil their eyes with this lot?").
All in all: great fun.
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