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The List: What books should everyone read before they die?  1,000 Books to Read Before You Die is a personal library of lifetime reading, a compendium of engaging essays (snippets from which appear on this site) presenting insights and reflections gleaned from my life as a reader and bookseller. You can browse and comment on The 1,000 below—or join my ongoing conversation with fellow readers by adding your own favorites to The Next 1,000. I hope you'll buy my book and subscribe to my newsletter, too. Happy reading! — James Mustich By List By Subject  New Popular ADD A BOOK A-Z by author:
By List ALLTHE 1,000THE NEXT 1,000 By Subject AllBiography & MemoirChildren’sDiaries & LettersDramaEssaysFantasy & Science FictionGraphic NovelsHistoryHumorLiteratureMystery & SuspenseNonfictionPhilosophy & ReligionPoetryRomanceScience & NatureTravel & AdventureWar Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey Written in the middle of the 1960s, yet composed largely from journals kept a decade earlier during the author’s summers as a backcountry ranger at the Arches National Monument (“among,” as he puts it, “the hoodoo rocks and voodoo silence of the Utah wilderness”), Desert Solitaire evokes the paradox...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (166) Life's too short (33) Want to read Share Post Comment Flatland Edwin A. Abbott A novel of mathematical whimsy, Flatland is set in the peculiar world that provides the book’s name and is home to its putative author, A. Square, a two-dimensional being in a world inhabited by lines, triangles, circles, and polygons. Ingeniously composed as a kind of dystopian memoir, Flatland is ...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (161) Life's too short (39) Want to read Share Post Comment  Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Composed in English and published in 1958, two years before Nigeria declared independence, Things Fall Apart was the first African novel to attain a wide international readership. It is a short, sparely told tale that nevertheless embraces themes of enormous import: fate and will, the determining i...show more 1 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (283) Life's too short (38) Want to read Share Post Comment Call Me by Your Name: A Novel André Aciman Agree (20) Life's too short (16) Want to read Share Post Comment My Dog Tulip J. R. Ackerley When first published in England in 1956, Tulip was considered shocking because of what one reviewer called its “scatological and gynaecological detail.” But while the messy details are certainly present in abundance (chapter 2, for example, is entitled “Liquids and Solids”), to be put off by them is...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (25) Life's too short (40) Want to read Share Post Comment Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales Diane Ackerman This book changed how I thought about writing. I admire how Ackerman dives into her subjects and uses her own narrative to convey facts and compel the reader to care about the threats her subjects face. 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (1) Life's too short (3) Want to read Share Post Comment Occupied America: A History of Chicanos Rodolfo Acuña "You don't know who you are unless you know where you come from." Carlos Stantistevan spoke eloquently about Rodolfo Acuña's book Occupied America: A History of Chicanos in Denver Public Library's January 2024 Battle IV. This book reveals what Santistevan terms "invisible American Chicano history,"...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (2) Life's too short (3) Want to read Share Post Comment The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams To say that Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a book that captured the zeitgeist of the late 1970s and the 1980s is an understatement. Beginning as a BBC comedy radio series, it would mutate into versions in print, on stage, in comics, and on screens small and big, becoming an ...show more 1 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (491) Life's too short (48) Want to read Share Post Comment  The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams Surveying national events from his birth through the era of the Civil War and the subsequent economic expansion of the United States, Adams’s distinctive autobiography is also a brilliant work of historical acumen. It depicts, with imaginative aplomb, the cultural transformations set in motion as th...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (33) Life's too short (42) Want to read Share Post Comment Watership Down Richard Adams One of the most phenomenal international bestsellers of the 1970s, Watership Down is an immersive saga that traverses great themes and feelings—courage, frailty, community, ecology, responsibility, friendship, love—while holding readers on the edge of their metaphorical seats. And oh, yes—it’s a 500...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (262) Life's too short (24) Want to read Share Post Comment Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Set in Nigeria during the decade culminating in the 1967–70 Biafran war, a secession conflict that left more than a million dead from violence and famine, this story is at once a historical drama and a tale of family struggles and romances gone right and wrong. Half of a Yellow Sun established Adich...show more 1 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (91) Life's too short (15) Want to read Share Post Comment Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie This book changed my view on the world. Really recommend listening to the audio book. 1 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (56) Life's too short (12) Want to read Share Post Comment  The Oresteia Aeschylus If you seek between covers an education in the trials and tribulations, the hopes and fears, the terrors and triumphs of the human spirit, the majestic tragedies of the ancient Greeks are the place to begin, and perhaps the place to end as well. In their beautiful, haunting, unsparing plays, Aeschyl...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (82) Life's too short (9) Want to read Share Post Comment Aesop's Fables Aesop We know next to nothing about Aesop (in fact he may not have even existed) but what he left behind is a series of hundreds of short (and i do mean short, most of these are just a couple sentences) stories starring animals that have indured for centuries after they were written. I'm willing to bet th...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (38) Life's too short (1) Want to read Share Post Comment Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee and Walker Evans In the summer of 1936, Fortune magazine commissioned James Agee and Walker Evans to report on the lives of sharecroppers in the Deep South. Agee was a twenty-six-year-old journalist who’d published a volume of poems two years earlier; Evans was a thirty-two-year-old photographer. The assignment took...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (24) Life's too short (16) Want to read Share Post Comment What Strange Paradise Omar El Akkad Ausma Zehanat Khan described this "gut-punch, heart-wound of a book" about a child refugee fleeing war-torn Syria in Denver Public Library's third Battle of the Books in January 2023. What happens when the body of a young boy washes up on the shore of a neighboring country? Is it right or wrong to g...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (2) Life's too short (3) Want to read Share Post Comment  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee At the outset of his long, ever-evolving career as a dramatist, Edward Albee was an American heir to the intellectual energies of the European Theater of the Absurd. In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, first staged in 1962, Albee moved his ferocity out of the absurd into a more realistic setting, a ...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (80) Life's too short (21) Want to read Share Post Comment Fascism: A Warning Madeleine Albright Pat Cosentino shared her thoughts on why we must all read Madeleine Albright's book, Facism: A Warning, in our virtual Battle with Byrd's Books of Bethel, CT on July 14, 2020. This personal and urgent examination of facism in the 21st century and how its legacy is shaping today's world is indeed a w...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (14) Life's too short (9) Want to read Share Post Comment Little Women Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, the second of four daughters of a noted proponent of Transcendentalism, Bronson Alcott. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a friend of the family, as were Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Despite her transcendentalist pedigree, Louisa May Alcott ...show more 2 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (352) Life's too short (30) Want to read Share Post Comment Wandering Stars Sholem Aleichem In many ways, "Wandering Stars" is an artifact -- a testament to a vibrant world and language wiped out by the Holocaust. At the turn of the 20th century, Russian-Jewish teenagers Reizel Spivak and Leib Rafalovitch fall in love with the Yiddish theater and each other, and after several altercations ...show more 0 Add Reply Post Reply Agree (1) Life's too short (1) Want to read Share Post Comment "1,000 Books To Read Before You Die" is a registered trademark of Workman Publishing, Inc. Based on the book: 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich, (Workman Publishing Co., Inc.: © 2018 James Mustich) All other website content © 2018-2026 The Company of Books LLC. We use cookies on this websiteWe use cookies to recognize you when you return to this website so you do not have to log in again. By continuing to use this site, you are giving us your consent to do this. You can read more about our practices and your choices here. |
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