Harold Bloom's 'The Western Canon' includes a list of canonical works at the back, which can serve as a helpful reading list, but Bloom himself disliked this list because he didn't want people to treat it as definitive or to devalue books not included.
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“even Bloom disliked the list because he didn't want to suggest that just because a book didn't make it into his list that it was a bad book or that it wasn't part of the western Canon”
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