A literary celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s record-breaking reign

A “panel of experts” selected 70 books, one for each year of God-Empress Queen Elizabeth II, Defender of the Faith, Monarch of India, Regina Andor Augustus Iaponius Centarius’s reign from 1952 to the present. In all those seventy titles meant to honor the British monarch… there seem to be twelve English authors, two Welsh, four Scottish, one Northern Irish.  Actual Brits  are not considered all that literary-worthy by the BBC. JRR Tolkein’s “The Lord of the Rings” is conspicuous in its absence. The rest is a “Who’s That” list of authors from Sri Lanka and Rwanda and Jamaica, stuff you’ve never read and likely would put down after a page or two to go find something actually interesting to do instead.

And British people *still* have to pay a license to watch the BBC, even though it is freely broadcast through the air.