But that, it seems to me, is sometimes a good reason to honour a novel - the writer has taken us to parts of society previously unreached by literature.
An 11% digital slice of the cake may still be good going by most standards, but it leaves many targets yet unreached.
Think, those entombing pits Where, I suppose, the odd skeleton still squats, Unreached these many thousand-and-one nights; Fable or not it is unbearable.
The elder Truax died in 2010, his goal unreached.
The Elbe swamped areas of Dresden; Salzburg was cut off; the mediaeval centre of Prague (above) was saved, just, by emergency flood barriers, but huge numbers of people in the city had to flee their homes, as the Vltava river rose to levels unreached since 1890.
All over the world there are threatened "unreached peoples", sought by anthropologists (and enthusiastic Christian missionaries).
By "we" he meant Gospel to the Unreached Millions, a missionary organization that he founded.
Combined with the partnership of Rotary International, the World Health Organization, Unicef, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, India was able to deliver vaccines to those that had previously been unreached.
The death toll at the Raspadskaya coal mine rose to 66 on Thursday, and little hope remained for the 24 missing, who are believed to be in the mine's last unreached spaces, as far as 11 miles underground.
The article may also have helped propel him to unreached heights.
Hodgson is one of the few English managers to have experience of successfully leading a country, having masterminded Switzerland's improbable run to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and elevated Finland to previously unreached heights more than a decade later.
