Newsweek har laget en metaliste av bl.a. Modern Library, the New York Public Library, St. John's College reading list, Oprahs liste. En spennende liste som kanskje kan være rettesnor for hva man skal komme seg gjennom av klassikere. Listen finnes her: http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478.

Novalis, Hoffmann, Heine, Nietzsche, Wagner, Pusjkin, Gogol, Turgenjev, Tolstoj, Dostojevskij, Tsjekhov, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe; huff, jeg blir nesten andpusten, her er utvalget nesten for stort. Om "The Democratic Age" (år 1832-1900) skriver Bloom:
- - - I have located Vico's Democratic Age in the post-Goethean nineteenth century, when the literature of Italy and Spain ebbs, yielding eminence to England with its renaissance of the Renaissance in Romanticism, and to a lesser degree to France and Germany. This is also the era where the strength of both Russian and American literature begins.

Link til boken her på Bokelskere.no.