Название: 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die. A Life-Changing List
Автор: James Mustich
Издательство: Workman Publishing Company
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 961
Размер: 58,06 МБ
Язык: english

Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more,1,000 Books to Read Before You Diemoves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend.
The expected pillars are here, including Jane Austen and Toni Morrison, Virgil, Dante, Dickens and Tolstoy, Franz Kafka and Simone de Beauvoir—their works made fresh through the author’s animated essays. Established classics are joined by new and unexpected choices likeCitizenandFriday Night Lights.A Visit from the Goon SquadandThe Pillow Bookof Sei Sh?nagon,The Day of the JackalandThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. The result is a treasury of essential reading for expansive tastes. The book’s alphabetical listing by last name results in the serendipity of juxtaposition—Cormac McCarthy’sThe Roadnext to Robert McCloskey’sMake Way for Ducklings, John le Carr? next to Ursula K. Le Guin next to Harper Lee. Following each entry are rich endnotes that include publication dates and preferred editions, other books by the same author, related books to try, and listings of worthy adaptations, including movies and audiobooks. In total, more than six thousand titles by thirty-five hundred authors are recommended.
A Miscellany of Special Lists at the end of the book offers the reader surprising entry points into the collection, such as “Books to Read in a Sitting,” includingThe Little Virtuesby Natalia Ginzburg andThe Third Manby Graham Greene, and “Offbeat Escapes,” including Freya Stark’sThe Valleys of the Assassinsand Felice Benuzzi’sNo Picnic on Mount Kenya. For the truly dedicated reader, “A Long Climb, but What a View”—a perfect way to describe those mountainous texts we long to scale, such as Proust’sIn Search of Lost Timeand Shelby Foote’sThe Civil War. An insightfully curated personal compendium that will inspire hours of browsing and a lifetime of reading,1,000 Books to Read Before You Diecelebrates the gorgeous mosaic that is our literary heritage.