[Borges]

Henry James was one of the pioneers of American citizens going to Europe and playing the 'Americans just aren't too bright' card to applauding European masses. So much of his fiction is about a callow American who goes to Europe and finds themselves out of their league. He's still a great writer of course.

[RightWingAtheist]

He was also quite the xenophobe, who deplored the mass influx of immigrants (codename for "Jews" in those days) into his native New England. Ironically, James would later be celebrated by a later generation of American writers and critics, who were predominantly descended from the Jewish and working-class Catholic immigrants he viewed as culturally backwards, while he was largely forgotten by the European literary establishment. There's a lesson to be learned there...

[RightWingAtheist]

BTW, if you could place a film book on the list, which one would it be? Mine would be Agee on Film, vols 1 and 2.