Are you looking for a book to read and you want it to be a classic or a book the world talked about once or is still talking about?
Check out this book here. 1001 great ideas and there is at least 1 book recommended for everyone.
Great lexicon/collection of great books.
I am not sure if I really have to read all of the recommended books before I die, but a great amount seems pretty interesting. ( )

I give up. I bought myself this edition in 2017 as an birthday gift to myself. Thought it would be fun to try. I think I had read 100-150 books already from the list (several that were required school readings, so thought it'd give me a good head start. Ha!

It was fun at first -- but mostly the part of picking up cheap copies of suggested books from used bookstores. Nowhere did I get anywhere close to amassing the 1001 books, and even less so regarding actually getting to read, or even enjoy reading them. I bailed on several. What's more, I downloaded the app (which I believe is no longer available) which constantly reminded me that I was expected to live to 81 years old and that I'd need to read 4 books from the list *per month* for the rest of my life. Forget that! I'd rather spend the rest of my years reading books I actually enjoy :-) . I will say, though, that some books from this suggested list were ones I enjoyed -- just not enough of them to make this a project of mine anymore. ( )

Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.

I mean, did I "read" this "books to read" book? These things mostly operate as big recommendation engines -- a leg on a greater anal, autistic (and more than slightly disqualifying, I would think) Journey through Literature, of which this account occupies no negligible place. Pearl: many recs, albeit clearly those of a librarian (for good and ill); Boxall: if you only have 150 words for each, stop spending the whole time just summarizing the shit; Mustich: at least there's an identifiable critical (?) voice here. ( )

About last night...I became so enthralled with this “big ole book” that I skimmed it from cover to cover. I learned a lot of different things including: I definitely will not and do not want to read all of these particular books; I even decided against some classics I thought I was gonna read; found books I had not heard of that I can’t wait to read; reading 1 page book reviews is fun. It’s really worth going through it, I think. ( )