READING LIST : Radcliffe Students List Top Novels
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By ROBIN ESTRIN
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - There are two Top 100 lists of the best English-
language novels of the century out this week.
The similarities are telling - James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John
Steinbeck, William Faulkner. The differences are even more so - Zora Neale
Hurston, A.A. Milne, E.B. White, Toni Morrison.
One was compiled by a prestigious group of mostly white male scholars,
historians and authors. The other was compiled by a group of mostly female,
20-something future publishers at Radcliffe College.
On Monday, the editorial board of the Modern Library, a division of Random
House, released its list. Joyce's ``Ulysses,'' came first, followed by
Fitzgerald's ``The Great Gatsby'' and Joyce's ``A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man.''
The list was comprised mostly of older, recognized classics. Not entirely
surprising, considering the make-up of the voters.
On Tuesday, the 100 students in Radcliffe's summer publishing course - a six-
week boot camp for aspiring book and magazine editors - released their own Top
100.
The Modern Library had invited Radcliffe to participate, and the two groups of
voters worked off the same list of 400 titles.
Topping Radcliffe's list was ``The Great Gatsby,'' followed by J.D. Salinger's
``The Catcher in the Rye,'' and then Steinbeck's ``The Grapes of Wrath.''
The lists are as startling for their similarities as they are for their
differences. They shared 47 titles, including four in each Top 10 -
``Ulysses,'' ``Gatsby,'' ``Grapes of Wrath'' and William Faulkner's ``The
Sound and the Fury.''
But one's classic is another's ancient history. Where the Modern Library has
Arthur Koestler's ``Darkness at Noon'' (No. 8) and Robert Graves' ``I,
Claudius'' (No. 14), Radcliffe has Alice Walker's ``The Color Purple,'' (No.
5) and Morrison's ``Beloved'' (No. 7.)
So how to account for the variations?
Perhaps it was a generational thing - the average age of the Radcliffe group
is 25, at least half that of the Modern Library panel. Or maybe it was a
gender- or race-based issue - 85 percent of the students are women, and about
17 percent are minorities, said Lindy Hess, director of the course and a
former executive at Doubleday.
``I think we speak more to the popular media than the modern library list,''
said Rainikka Corprew, a 25-year-old from Cary, N.C., who estimates she's read
about 60 percent of the books on the Radcliffe list, and maybe 40 or 45
percent of the ones from the Modern Library.
A so-called ``woman's touch'' may also be evidenced in the inclusion of
several children's novels on the Radcliffe list: White's ``Charlotte's Web,''
(No. 7), Milne's ``Winnie-the-Pooh'' (No. 22) and Frank L. Baum's ``The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (No. 47).
A few Radcliffe selections might raise some literary eyebrows, however. Does
Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy ``A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,''
for example, truly deserve its No. 72 spot?
It sure does, said Sam Lubell, a 22-year-old Philadelphian who wants to edit
magazines. ``It speaks to today's time.''
As far as the Modern Library's list goes, ``I just felt like they were pretty
out of it,'' Lubell said.
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