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This is a super interesting pursuit. Would love to see your results somehow displayed in a chart or infographic. It could be a useful way of portray the depravity of modern media.

Jay 1w ago

Best I can do on short notice is color the scores the NYT "best books of the 21st century according to elites" list got. A score of less than 6 is either mixed morality or neutral all the way down to immoral or even evil. And that makes up pretty much 80% of the list. It tops out at around 8, and there are lots of very good books that sit above that rating, with ratings of 8 to 9.5.

And after I wrote that, I also took the top 100 goodreads books (which is slightly better than NYT), and a personal list I made of books I now plan on reading (and some I've already read). And the books that I've read that skew green/red do actually match my own experience with them, so I'm fairly confident in the results for books I haven't read.

**New York Times:**

**GoodReads**

**Personal**

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Corban 1w ago

Wow, I’d say that does a pretty good job of painting a picture!

You’ve read a lot of books too. What book from your list would you recommend to others to read?

Jay 1w ago

It's pretty cool to see 😁

Some of the ones on that list that I have read:

The Lord of the Rings

A Wizard of Earthsea

To Kill a Mockingbird

Needful Things

More than half of those are ones I haven't read yet, but have been in my audiobook library. I was able to cut some from the list that I wouldn't have enjoyed thanks to this prompt.

Corban 1w ago

Lord of the Rings is such a task to take on, but it would be cool to read it at some point. I haven’t heard of A Wizard of Earthsea or Needful Things though. I’ll have to check those out. Thanks!

Jay 1w ago

Lord of the Rings is the best of the best of the last century, a true modern epic. And you're welcome!

Ryan 1w ago

Absolutely. I read it first as a teenager, and a couple more times since (the hobbit included). I go back and forth between that and the Foundation series being my favorites. I'm a pretty big Asimov fan.

Bfgreen 1w ago

I've read Dune more times than I can remember. Such an incredible book for the year it was written, so much better than the awful movie adaptations. https://briangreen.net/reading