Douglas Browning: Ranking: Other

I may well, somewhat sporadically, rank or offer assessments of such things as novels, college sports teams, American presidents, and cigars.  

Right now I would only like to make a comment about the Modern Library list of the 100 greatest novels in English in the 20th Century.  Anyone who thinks that Joyce's Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century has got to have his head up his ass.  At least they had the wisdom to put Hammett's The Maltese Falcon in the top ten.  But where's Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings? (Not a novel? OK.) The Sun Also Rises? Warlock?  Islandia?  Anything by Jack Vance?  The Glass Key (some people--not I--think that that is Hammett's best novel)?

The same group (Modern Library) also has listed the 100 greatest non-fiction works in English of the century.   Philosophy is terribly under-represented.  Whitehead's Process and Reality surely is in the top five.  Dewey's Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Nature belong in the top ten, if not the top five. And they have Rawls's A Theory of Justice at number 28 and Moore's Principia Ethica at 32!  I certainly don't mind the Moore, but Rawls--give me a break!  Dewey's Philosophy and Civilization is at 33.  I don't mind that, but it's the only work by Dewey listed!