I like this idea. They recommend books for various ailments. I have been proposing for some time that the path out of the intellectual squalor that has characterized the Humanities–here, English Departments–has been figuring out the USE of literature. If it has none, then the Departments ought to be abolished. But that seems unlikely: we NEED literature, in some ways. It is formative, provocative, growth-inducing.
Why not approach the thing intelligently, though, as they have done here?
This in my view is what constitutes progress. The next obvious step is TESTING the ideas, which here are a matter of highly subjective judgement.