Information Is Beautifulinfobeautiful@vis.social
Jul 5, 2026, 4:55 PMThe world's greatest novels, according to 15+ book polls, awards, prizes & lists. How many have you read?
interactive https://bit.ly/IIB-Novels
poster https://bit.ly/Novels-Poster
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cuan_knaggsmensrea@freeradical.zoneJul 5, 2026, 5:12 PM@infobeautiful here's the actual link with out the surveillance https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/novels-everyone-should-read-interactive/
Jan Eckhoff 💉⁸ 🐘janeckhoff@chaos.socialJul 5, 2026, 5:13 PM@infobeautiful s/the world‘s/the English-speaking world’s
Admiral SnackbärAdmSnackbar@mastodon.socialJul 5, 2026, 6:52 PMAnd even within that small slice of the world it's the most basic "I am smat" list of books.
Halla Rempthalla@kde.socialJul 5, 2026, 5:13 PM@infobeautiful Well, all of them, pretty much, though I'm, by now, pretty ashamed of having read them. Also, isn't this a pretty weird line-up? Apart from Tolstoy and Cervantes, every title is English? There's no Hongloumeng? No Genji?
I guess this is the "English native speaker's line-up of the world's greatest novels, provided they were not written by darkies of any colour. Or White people who had a bit of empathy, like Multatuli."
Even fucking Harry Potter is in that infographic.