Richard Posner's dismemberment of "Blink" is awesome.

Also, "The Da Vinci Code" is fluff, but at least everyone knows it's fluff. People think Gladwell's a real author. Worse, Gladwell apparently thinks he's a real author.

Every one knows, Prisoner of Azkaban is the best Potter book...

Dumb shits.

@ sad panda: Random Family is rad.

And @ vooodooo84: I enjoyed reading I Will Fear No Evil more than I enjoyed reading The Da Vinci Code. If I had to choose one to read over again, though, I would pick The Da Vinci Code because it was much shorter.

I saw the EW music list and figured it would be the list that, based on my own personal experience, I would have the best ability to judge on the merits. After scanning it, I assumed the creators were A) not really serious, B) not really credible, or C) paid off. Since I don't know enough about books and authors to judge the EW book list, I figured I'd better skip it in case it was as bad as the music list.

Thank you Mr. Constant and Gurldoggie for pointing out some of the better choices, I will give your recommendations a shot.

There are a lot of worthy reads on that list Nightlifejitters, but I'd say the one to read first, based on sheer historical timeliness, is "Black Water" by Joyce Carol Oates. Without giving too much away, it is a short and extremely powerful novel based on the worst day in a life of a very well known and powerful public figure who isn't long for this world. Seriously it's worth reading, or re-reading, in the next couple months before it loses some of its considerable relevance.