Google tells us that there exist 129,864,880 different books in the world. It’s a bit daunting for the dwindling number of us who still read.
A more useful exercise might be to count how many books there are that are actually worth reading. The first step should be to remove from contention all memoirs by celebrities, athletes, and politicians. Then, we ought to cull the ridiculously overrated stuff—like Catcher in the Rye, for instance, and All the President’s Men. Finally, anything by L. Ron Hubbard.
There now. That makes our list a little more manageable, doesn’t it?
by Spimbi