{"product_id":"bfl-1-000-books-to-read-before-you-die-9781523504459","title":"1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“The ultimate literary bucket list.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If there’s a heaven just for readers, this is it.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e1,000 Books to Read Before You Die\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eranges 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 it’s not a proscriptive list of the “great works”—rather, it’s a celebration of the glorious mosaic that is our literary heritage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlip 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Road\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e next to Robert McCloskey and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMake Way for Ducklings,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Alice Walker next to Izaac Walton. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are nuts and bolts, too—best editions to read, other books by the author, “if you like this, you’ll 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 mentioned—a life-changing list for a lifetime of reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“948 pages later, you still want more!” —THE WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Workman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42981137055950,"sku":"9781523504459","price":74.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781523504459_a.png?v=1742185614","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/bfl-1-000-books-to-read-before-you-die-9781523504459","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}