Once you start looking, they're everywhere - website after website, publication after publication, it feels like everyone's got a definitive list of books that you simply have to read before you shuffle off this mortal coil. But what's the value of these lists anyway? Are they just book snobbery? We get into it on the show, and also mention some titles we're glad to have read while we had the opportunity to. 

Produced by: Sharmilla Ganesan, Lee Chwi Lynn

Presented by: Sharmilla Ganesan, Lee Chwi Lynn

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Categories:  Literature/Philosophy

Tags:  books to read before you die,  jane austen,  salman rushdie,  lord of the rings,