What to read next? What to read at all? This is the dilemma of all readers, whether they are reading one or 200 books a year. James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List includes many of the classics you might expect like Plato and Proust and covers fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel, biography, children's books, history, and more.
Mustich who began his career in book-selling 40 years ago recently joined Roxanne in the Just the Right Book studios to talk about the book that has been called "the ultimate literary bucket-list" by the Washington Post.
Says Roxanne, "There've been lots of lists and books put together about what to read over the years, but none have done as charming and genre defying job as (James Mustich).."
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Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Tale of the Genji by Lady Murasaki
An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
A Thousand Place to See Before You by Patricia Schultz
The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
Growth & Form by D'arcy Wentworth Thompson
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las by Hunter S. Thompson Vegas
Eloise by Kay Thompson
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
Odyssey by Homer
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Middlemarch by George Elliot
Memoir Mass for the Dead by William Gibson
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
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