The list is written "out of a respect for the less-heralded cultural underpinnings" of America, but it includes books by Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vo

The list is written "out of a respect for the less-heralded cultural underpinnings" of America, but it includes books by Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow...great authors and great books but hardly "less heralded"