8 Books To Read Before You Die

All About Love

We are encouraged to think of love as something that happens to us. It’s a beautiful sight, but it’s
passive. In her highly personal and emphatic All About Love, renowned social activist and
feminist bell-hatcher argue that, in reality, love is a choice that we all have to make, and that it’s
not nearly as abstract or mysterious as many of us have come to believe. Not only does the book
discuss the role of love in our lives and how our society has corrupted its meaning, but it also
directs us — with simple definitions and examples — to a deeper understanding of how to
cultivate it. If you ever wondered why certain relationships have been tested for time and others
have failed, you should read this book.
Desert Solitaire

No author has encapsulated and embraced the American Southwest more attractively than the
iconoclastic and raconteur Edward Abbey. Desert Solitaire: A Desert Season — now almost half
a century old — is a masterpiece of environmental literature. Throughout this autobiographical
piece, Abbey chronicles his time as a park ranger and focuses on nature, history, politics,
tourism, environmental neglect, and degradation — doing so with a rare combination of
ornamental beauty and a stunning definition. Though set in his beloved Southwest, Desert
Solitaire captures the essence of the American outdoors, full of contempt for those who might try
to ruin his natural wonder.

Disgrace

One afternoon, when talking to a friend about books, I wondered how to explain better my
experience of reading Shame, and that’s what I came up with: it’s like a beautifully made, very
sharp knife resting softly against your skin. The uneasiness and suspense have been there from
the beginning, made all the more potent by Coetzee’s control and use of additional language, and
you never really take a deep breath until it’s all over. Set in modern South Africa, the book
explores how to confront deep-seated prejudices in a personal way. Prejudices of age,
orientation, gender, and race. Far from being politically correct blame, this novel is about how
we cope, how we survive as human beings, and forces the reader to reflect on what appears to be
a very twisted reality at first. To each of the characters in this magnificent book, salvation is
reached by what is the very reshaping of their souls.

Geek Love

This is the book that I recommend more than any other — I can barely hold on to a copy of it
because I always give it to anyone who I think needs something that blows off the top of their
skull. On one level, it’s the captivating, creepy, and extraordinary story of a family of purposely
crafted circus freaks, as the hunchback albino dwarf sister has said. At another point, it’s a tale
about identity and belonging: how do you describe yourself in terms of your family? Your
society, huh? The body, huh? Your religion, huh? How do you know Who you are are or what
you are?

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Giovanni’s Room

It will be challenging to think about James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Place, and not to address the
simple fact that this slim book, released in 1956, is essentially a love story between two people.
It seems unlikely to think that such a thing will be written before Stonewall, but this is Baldwin’s
genius and the way he portrays the nuances of lust, love, and the tragic cost of not following your
heart". Somebody, ... It was meant to remind us that not many people have ever died of passion,
but multitudes have perished ... This emotional wonder of a novel comes down to two things:
love and death. And what's wrong with life?
A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Flannery O’Connor’s first book of short stories, published in 1955, will knock you off your feet.
Ruthless, probing, and filled with a subtext, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories
were courageous for their time and sound just as accurate today. Writing in the Southern Gothic
tradition in style uniquely her own, O’Connor creates incorrect characters, stunted curiosities,
but manages to portray what is right even in the most detestable of people — which makes their
doomed trajectories all the more tragic. And despite the disturbing events that unfold, the stories
are a pleasure to read — infused with suspense, dark humor, and some of the most evocative
images you’ll encounter in literature. Everything this makes for a series that never fails to amaze
— and begs for rereading.

The Handmaid’s Tale

Atwood’s classic dystopian novel of a horrific (and frighteningly plausible) future America has
rewarded rereading like no other book; I’ve probably read it 30 times by now. The world of the
narrator, Provided (from “Of Fred”—women no longer have their names), is disturbing, but she
is a brilliant survivor and chronicler, and the specifics of everything from worldly everyday life
to ritualized sex and abuse to her reminiscence of the past (our current reality, as seen in the
’80s) are utterly believable. The novel is as important today as ever; feminist backlashes tend to
wax and wane, but women’s rights remain under the spotlight. And with its situations of great
desperation, The Handmaid’s Tale is essentially an optimistic book — Offered, and others,
indeed, cannot be human without the promise of redemption, and therein lies the power of
resistance. Everything of Atwood is worth reading, but this novel best exemplifies the cultural
and psychological influence that literature can have.

If On A Winter’s Night A Travel

For those with a romantic affair with books, the ultimate love letter to the reader may well be a
Traveler on Winter’s Night. Calvin’s novel is a masterfully crafted, shockingly original piece of
fiction. Alternately, in second-and third-person narratives, the book is a fascinating exploration
of the relationship between the author and the reader — a mixture of apparently unrelated stories,
all of which are directly connected to you, the reader. At its heart is an imaginative idea, the likes
of which could have come only from Calvin’s unparalleled imagination. By the time you reach
its dazzling conclusion, you’re going to wish you could reread it for the very first time.

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