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While the title technically allows for books by young white men, I feel that'd defeat the purpose of this list. I will wait to hear what the creator thinks.

Athough a very interesting book, Alexander Pushkin is dead, white and male, so I've removed Eugene Onegin...

Booklovinglady wrote: "Athough a very interesting book, Alexander Pushkin is dead, white and male, so I've removed Eugene Onegin..."

Pushkin had a black African great-grandfather, of whom he writes about in The Blackamoor of Peter the Great. Please do not remove added authors without researching their backgrounds.

Aubrey wrote: "Pushkin had a black African great-grandfather, of whom he writes about in The Blackamoor of Peter the Great. Please do not remove added authors without researching their backgrounds. ..."

Pushkin himself was considered white though, no matter his great-grandfather. It's the author hinmself that counts, not his background... Be honest, a great-grandfather?

I wasn't aware ethnic heritage had a generational expiration date. I'll leave it to others to decide when white washing is an acceptable practice.

Aubrey wrote: "I wasn't aware ethnic heritage had a generational expiration date. I'll leave it to others to decide when white washing is an acceptable practice."

I have a feeling this is a very touchy subject... I'm Dutch, so please, do not take offence when I say that Pushkin was considered to be a 'white' author (whatever that means).

Out of curiosity, because as I said, I'm Dutch and not American, so maybe I'm just being very naive in this respect, but would you have reacted exactly the same way if you knew a black author had had a white great-grandfather? In other words, would you've considered a black author white then? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but somehow I don't think you would have...

I've noticed you've put Eugene Onegin (#217) back on the list again, by the way. I didn't delete it this time, but that doesn't mean I agree with it being on this list, as I stand by my earlier comments.

Although women authors are the obvious choice for a list like this, I made sure that more than half of the books I voted for/added were written by men. And although some of them are dead, or old, none of them are 'white'.

*must resist the urge to add books written by living/young white men*

It seems odd that there is nothing by Willa Cather on this list. She must surely be considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

can we get a definition of "old" plz

I'm curious about Simon, what did he do and how did he respond to this?! Also, there are some authors here which probably should be removed? I was sort of surprised to see Palahniuk, Bukowski, Ellis, Kesey... I think this list was hijacked?

there is once again such an incredible dearth of international writers. There are actually seven continents.Most "lists" the time of year consist of almost no continents and two countries. The United States and England. You cant even call it Eurocentric since the lists almost always exclude any writing fromEastern Europe which has some of the qurkiest,most talented and most daring writers in this world.

Deleted The Elephant Tree, Zombie room

Is this a competition for the most toxic list name?

ive noticed quite a few old white men on this list 😭