Literary Top Dogs

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 | comments (0)
An essay in the NYT Book Review about a survey of the best books of the last 25 years. Even though Toni Morrison's Beloved won with 15 votes, I think it's notable that Philip Roth had seven different books voted on for a total of 21 votes.

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