Can we acknowledge the role of sheer luck and timing? A book arrives at the right cultural moment, catches a wave, and gets cemented as a classic. The themes we retroactively assign—'captured the zeitgeist,' 'gave voice to a generation'—are often just descriptions of that lucky timing. Other books of equal quality published a year earlier or later fade into obscurity. The 'best ever' narrative is a story we tell, and like all stories, it needs protagonists. We pick the books that fit the cleanest arc of literary history and elevate their attributes into universal standards.
I think the digital age is changing this. It's less about the single, monolithic 'book' and more about individual poems that go viral, or poets who build a following through social media. The themes of the 'best' might shift from cohesive, printed collections to fragmentation, meme-ability, and interactive, digital-native forms. Accessibility and shareability could become new criteria. The whole notion of a static 'best ever book' might be a relic of a pre-internet, canon-focused culture. We might be moving toward a model of fluid, personal canons built from scattered lines and screenshots.
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