Reading lists

The NY Times has an article about the 25 best American fiction works of the last 25 years. Of all the books, I've only read Beloved and 1 1/2 Philip Roth books.

But what a boring list. Roth, McCormac, DeLillo, Updike... over and over again. Maybe I should read some of those (except Roth, I don't care for Roth), but it seems terribly provincial. Granted, Harold Bloom was a judge. But there were also much better judges, people with interesting ideas and stodginess not quite so ingrained in the very essence of their beings.