{"id":3348,"date":"2023-07-07T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:13:30","slug":"thoughts-on-lists-of-must-read-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/07\/thoughts-on-lists-of-must-read-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on lists of &#8220;must read&#8221; books"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li> If it doesn&#8217;t include the Bible, it&#8217;s questionable.\n<li> I always wonder whether the titles are on the list because they&#8217;re great or to fulfill some sort of quota.\n<li> Sometimes you see a very strange entry. E.g., on this list &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/booksofbrilliance.com\/2023\/07\/05\/the-30-must-read-book-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 30 Must Read Book of All Time<\/a> &#8212; what is <i>The Ocean at the End of the Lane<\/i> by Neil Gaiman doing there? It&#8217;s not even Gaiman&#8217;s best book, let alone great. (The misspelling in the title is a clue that it might not be the best list.)\n<li> Is the list based on popularity, or on what some group of alleged experts says? <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it doesn&#8217;t include the Bible, it&#8217;s questionable. I always wonder whether the titles are on the list because they&#8217;re great or to fulfill some sort of quota. Sometimes you see a very strange entry. E.g., on this list &#8212; The 30 Must Read Book of All Time &#8212; what is The Ocean at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/07\/thoughts-on-lists-of-must-read-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on lists of &#8220;must read&#8221; books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}