Is there a "Criterion Collection" for books? Not just film books but all books. I know if a list of 1001 you must read before you die. But anything else?

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Anonymous Wed Nov 30 23:26:12 2011 No.2222862 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a "Criterion Collection" for books?
Not just film books but all books.

I know if a list of 1001 you must read before you die. But anything else?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 23:27:09 2011 No.2222864 the western canon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 23:28:09 2011 No.2222867 New York Review Books Classics does a sort of similar kind of thing, in that they republish overlooked and out of print classics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 23:31:10 2011 No.2222870 File: 47 KB, 260x399, 1341378173_acdb82305b (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Penguin Classics are sorta like the Criterion version of books Penguin Modern Classics for 20th century stuff

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 23:39:09 2011 No.2222877 File: 12 KB, 299x266, oto_girl-pointing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2222870 >>2222867 >>2222864 Who, rocks?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 23:56:09 2011 No.2222906 >>2222877 Harold Bloom doesn't.

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