How to Decide What to Read Next

Eve and Julie ask Jim Mustich, author of 1000 Books to Read Before You Die, how to decide what to read next.

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die:

A Life-Changing List

“If there’s a heaven just for readers, this is it.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

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Jim Mustich

1000 Books to Read Before You Die

A Month in the Country, by J. L. Carr

Workman Publishing, founded by Peter Workman

1000 Places to See Before You Die, by Patricia Schultz

Dorothy Dunnett

Dashiell Hammett

Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak

The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, by Ellen Ullman

The Handmaid’s Tales, by Margaret Atwood

The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe

The Fault in our Stars, by John Green

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, by Mary Oliver

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman

Nancy Drew, by Carolyn Keene

Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban

The Mouse and His Child, by Russell Hoban

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner

Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner

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Eve Yohalem

Julie Sternberg

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