"I can’t imagine what a fascinating but scary feeling it would be to write the best book in 125 years out of millions of novels."

But it isn't.

We have to understand that the opinion of a company or even the opinion of a few people based in the US is not relevant for the rest of the world. You can be sure that millions of people would disagree that this is the "best book" of the past 125 years.

How can the opinion of a few people be more valuable than the opinion of millions of readers throughout history? What are the metrics used to measure the quality of a book? Who defines those metrics?

Or is there a committee sitting somewhere, measuring the quality of books by certain standards defined beforehand?

It's true:

The NYT made a survey.

This is the result.

Good to know.

Thanks for sharing.