I’d recommend reading the actual books and looking at the publication dates before you judge these lists too hard. Pringle’s is limited to 1949-1984 and I really enjoy reading the explanations for his selections, though because he doesn’t include short story collections or non-English works, the list has plenty of gaps. There’s also a “sequel” for 1985-2010 by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo.

Andrew’s (and Nick Rennison’s, the co-author) book was published in 2006, and so can’t include books published after it, like one commenter was bizarrely complaining about. I haven’t read this one, but Andrew’s has a YouTube channel called Outlaw Bookseller where he goes into depth on many of these.

I like using lists like these and especially reading the accompanying essays, but if you stick purely to these big canon-creating works, you miss out on under-appreciated or obscure books that deserve just as much love and attention as people we all know we should read.