6 Best classics books like 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List by James Mustich

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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

By: James Mustich

4.12

Format: 948 pages, Hardcover

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If you liked the classics plot in 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List by James Mustich , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Way Things Are

By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"There can be no centre in infinity."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

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2. The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

By: Josh Hanagarne

3.81

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
"An old librarian once said to me, " whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward."

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

"When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough"

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

"There is a great case to be made for using religion to win arguments, as long as you only debate with other believers."

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

"I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live."

-Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

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3. My Dog Tulip

By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas , J.R. Ackerley

3.31

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"Was she happy? I suppose she was happy. She had, after all, fulfilled a dog's most urgent need, she had managed to bestow her heart, and upon steady people whose dull, uneventful lives required the c…"

-Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, My Dog Tulip

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4. The Story of Babar

By: Jean de Brunhoff , None

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The classic first story about literature's most beloved pachyderm. After his mother is killed by a … read more

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  • classics
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5. Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
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6. Dear Committee Members

By: Julie Schumacher

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more

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7. Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

By: Catherine Shanahan , Luke Shanahan

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Deep Nutritionillustrates how our ancestors used nourishment to sculpt their anatomy, engineering b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. My Reading Life

By: Pat Conroy

3.50

Format: None pages,

Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • books about books

9. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

By: Henry Fielding , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is… read more

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10. The Phantom Tollbooth

By: Jules Feiffer , Norton Juster

4.20

Format: 24 pages,

Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click . Hailed as "a classic. .… read more

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11. A Judgement in Stone

By: Ruth Rendell

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre? On Valentine's Day, fo… read more

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12. Beauty and the Clockwork Beast (Steampunk Proper Romance #1)

By: Nancy Campbell Allen

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

Jane Eyre meets Beauty and the Beast. When Lucy Pickett arrives at Blackwell Manor to tend to her a… read more

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13. Wilful Behaviour (Commissario Brunetti, #11)

By: Donna Leon

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife's students with a strange and vague… read more

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14. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

By: Peter Boxall

3.68

Format: 200 pages,

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15. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

By: Julia Alvarez

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra,… read more

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16. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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  • books about books
"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

17. Saint Maybe

By: Anne Tyler

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the… read more

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18. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

By: Antonio García Martínez

4.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Liar's Pokermeets The Social Networkin an irreverent expose of life inside the tech bubble, from in… read more

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19. The Clothing of Books

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa … read more

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20. A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

By: Leo Tolstoy , Peter Sekirin

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Unknown Binding

This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most i… read more

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21. Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life

By: Jill Winger

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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22. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Sarah Ogilvie

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • writing
  • reference
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"

-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

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23. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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24. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.94

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."

-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

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25. The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human

By: Lee Child

3.38

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explor… read more

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  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
"Fiction comprises stories about things that never happened to people who didn’t exist."

-Lee Child, The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human

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26. Riverman: An American Odyssey

By: Ben McGrath

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years… read more

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  • nonfiction
"No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it."

-Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey

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27. The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

By: Edward White

3.90

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what define… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

By: James Mustich

4.12

Format: 948 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book… read more

Similar categories in James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List book and James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

  • self help
  • classics
  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • reference
  • writing
  • education
  • books about books
  • literary criticism
Cover of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior

29. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

By: Karen Swallow Prior

4.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowled… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • education
  • books about books
"Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected."

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

"What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith."

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

"Seeing who we really are--which requires seeing ourselves in relationship to God--is true humility. Humility is taking our place, no matter how small (or big), and fulfilling that place with a heart …"

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

"Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. "Humility is thinking le…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

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30. Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

By: Anthony Raymond

4.14

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the Japanese secret to unlocking your purpose, productivity, and passion!Are you strugglin… read more

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  • self help
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6 Top literature books like 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List by James Mustich

Transform Your Habits

The Way Things Are

Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Transform Your Habits

My Dog Tulip

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas , J.R. Ackerley

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Aesop's Fables

Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Transform Your Habits

The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human

Lee Child

3.38

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13 Best audiobook books like My Reading Life by Pat Conroy

Transform Your Habits

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict, #1)

Laurie Viera Rigler

3.18

Transform Your Habits

A Natural Woman: A Memoir

Carole King

4.09

Transform Your Habits

My Reading Life

Pat Conroy

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Caretaker

Ron Rash

4.20

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