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IMHO lists such as this should be much more narrowly focused to be of great use to readers seeking out books to put on the personal "to read" list. The "The Guardian 100 Best Books of the 21st Century" list includes non-fiction, poetry, graphic comics, poetry. After one removes all of those, there are about 60 actual novels in the list. Would it take much effort to separate the categories of books into separate lists "Best non-fiction since 2000" "Best poetry collections since 2000" and so forth?

I personally would like to see a list of books that defined a year range (whether it be "of all time", "19th century", "20th century", "since 1999" etc), allowed all genres (as long as the fulfilled a high literary quality), and then restrict as follows, ONLY:
- page length greater than 150
- fictional novel
- published in English (translations allowed)
[Short story collections may or may not be allowed in the list.] NOTE: Personally, I would also disallow children's books or YA from that list (I don't need to see "Harry Potter" once again)

Someone has added 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait by Mohamad Jebara' to this list. It's *not* on the Guardian's Top 100 Books list, and that's why there are now 101 books on this list. Please don't edit lists like this.

@Brian
Would you like me to remove it? (I'm a librarian, so I can)

Hi @booklovinglady - if you're willing to, that'd be great. This is a list that was published in a newspaper so it'd be good to keep it consistent with the list (especially for people like me who are trying to read their way through it!)

Thank you :)

Brian wrote: "Hi @booklovinglady - if you're willing to, that'd be great. This is a list that was published in a newspaper so it'd be good to keep it consistent with the list(especially for people like me who are trying to read their way through it!) ..."

Done.

This list is not correct according to the Guardian article from September 21, 2019.
@booklovinglady--would you correct it again please? (Is there any way to "lock" the list once you've corrected it?)