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[paperclippy]

From jwgh

The Guardian's list of F&SF books you should read before you die. I hope that by not having read some of these, I will have achieved an inexpensive, practical form of immortality

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[jeffspender]

I wouldn't feel bad at all about a sorry performance on this list... I think it's a pretty terrible list. They didn't even manage to get Bradbury on here? Yeesh.

This list smells an awful lot like a "normal" lit expert trying to find all the books they liked that could possibly be categorized as fantasy or sci-fi.

[jwgh]

Apparently the original list was '1000 books to read before you die', and then that list of 1000 was subclassified into different genres in various arbitrary ways. For instance I gather that 'Lord of the Rings' was on the list somewhere but was classified as something other than F/SF.

[paperclippy]

We should come up with our own list. Of course, my personal favorites are all in such a teeny tiny subgenre of fantasy that I'd have trouble coming up with a more generic one. Here are some books I'd include though, some of which are taken from the list