Thanks for writing about the NYT list. I was traveling so am catching up on reactions to it. As you said, genius from a click bait and content marketing perspective. I especially liked the "sign up to get the daily email" as a limited edition newsletter type of product that then rolls subscribers into their main newsletter about books.
Not much history or biography or crime fiction fanned by the 500+ polled. My baker's Dozen for best of the 21st century: Sea of Poppies, Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, Suite Française, The Crimson Petal and the White, Fire Weather, Stalin's Ghost, Caught in the Revolution, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Coventry, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. All books that I have re-read or have on my list to re-read.
Thanks for writing about the NYT list. I was traveling so am catching up on reactions to it. As you said, genius from a click bait and content marketing perspective. I especially liked the "sign up to get the daily email" as a limited edition newsletter type of product that then rolls subscribers into their main newsletter about books.
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Not much history or biography or crime fiction fanned by the 500+ polled. My baker's Dozen for best of the 21st century: Sea of Poppies, Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, Suite Française, The Crimson Petal and the White, Fire Weather, Stalin's Ghost, Caught in the Revolution, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Coventry, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. All books that I have re-read or have on my list to re-read.
Sea of Poppies was great!