num_pages: 948
description: Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book thats as compulsively readable entertaining surprising and enlightening as the 1000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction poetry science and science fiction memoir travel writing biography childrens books history and more 1000 Books to Read Before You Die ranges across cultures and through time to offer an eclectic collection of works that each deserve to come with the recommendation You have to read this. But its not a proscriptive list of the great worksrather its a celebration of the glorious mosaic that is our literary heritage. Flip it open to any page and be transfixed by a fresh take on a very favorite book. Or come across a title you always meant to read and never got around to. Or like browsing in the best kind of bookshop stumble on a completely unknown author and work and feel that tingle of discovery. There are classics of course and unexpected treasures too. Lists to help pick and choose like Offbeat Escapes or A Long Climb but What a View. And its alphabetical arrangement by author assures that surprises await on almost every turn of the page with Cormac McCarthy and The Road next to Robert McCloskey and Make Way for Ducklings Alice Walker next to Izaac Walton. There are nuts and bolts toobest editions to read other books by the author if you like this youll like that recommendations  and an interesting endnote of adaptations where appropriate. Add it all up and in fact there are more than six thousand titles by nearly four thousand authors mentioneda life-changing list for a lifetime of reading.
language: English
title: 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
publisher: Workman Publishing Company