When I see a list like this I can just imagine some people sitting in an office on Monday morning getting a memo from "upstairs" that they have to have a list of 100 books finished by Friday afternoon. The rest of the week is taken up with arguments along the lines of "Well if you get to include that one then I get to add this one". On and on until Friday when they give up and go home after finishing a list of 88 books.

Then they tell "upstairs" that they devised a list of criteria so stringent that only the 88 books made the list.