subject: Books To Read Before You Die [print this page] This may sound gross but there are certainly a lot of things that you must do before you lie on your death bed. Be it travelling or putting certain things in perspective we do have or must have a list of to-dos. There are a lot of books that have won accolades in almost every corner of the world. Here are a few of those best sellers whom you would certainly not want to miss in your lifetime.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by author Harp Lee. A wonderful piece of literature, great characters, plot and prose, there is sadness and happiness, racism and equality, immaturity and maturity, injustice and redemption. Atticus is a man we could all love and look up to a grounded just and fair man he sees beyond race and finds the goodness in people. His cook Calpurnia is an honest good black lady who you are definitely going to love. She works for a nice family who are about to go through some obstacles and testing times. A must read for literature lovers.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Anna Quindlen
Written by a team of English and American authors, Jane Austen and Anna Quindlen, Pride and Prejudice is one of the most coveted books of all times. Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners--one of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the "most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author's works," and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as "irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perhaps the greatest literature marvel of all times, the Great Gatsbys popularity relies heavily on its shortness. At a sparse 180 pages, Fitzgeralds masterpiece could be argued to be the Great American novella. Gatsby, like so many other short classics, is easily readable, re-readable, and assessable to everyone from the attention-deficient young to mothers juggling a kid, a career, and a long-held desire to catch up on all those books they should have read but havent gotten around to yet. The Great Gatsby is your neighbour you're best friends with until you find out he's a drug dealer. It charms you with some of the most elegant English prose ever published, making it difficult to discuss the novel without the urge to stammer awestruck about its beauty. It would be evidence enough to argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald was superhuman, if it wasn't for the fact that we know he also wrote This Side of Paradise.
