James Mustich, Jr. is a bookseller, editor, and writer. In October 2018, Mustich's book 1,000 Books To Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List was published by

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, receiving starred reviews from ''Publishers Weekly', Booklist','' and ''Library Journal'', as well as the praise of other notable independent reviewers''. The Washington Post'' listed it as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the year.

Life

1,000 Books is the most recent offering in Workman Publishing'
"1,000" brand
In 2017, Mustich became the founding executive producer of the

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Podcast, for which he has conducted interviews with writers such as

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, and Michael Wolf. In 2007, Mustich was founding editor of the
Barnes & Noble Review
', an online literary journal. As editor of the ''Review'' he has conducted in-depth interviews with many leading authors, including

Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Wes ...

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Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work exp ...

Richard Price Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer, pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French ...

Elmore Leonard Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thri ...

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, and

Robert Caro Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote ''The Power Br ...

. In 1986, Mustich co-founded the mail-order book catalog

A Common Reader A Common Reader: Books for Readers with Imagination was an American mail-order book catalog, established in 1986 by James Mustich Jr., a bookseller, editor, and writer. It was notable among general-interest book catalogs for its eclecticism, with ...

: Books for Readers with Imagination, and served as its president and publisher until the business was closed in 2006. During its two-decade run, the catalog was published up to 17 times each year and listed hundreds of titles in each issue, each with its own write-up. A Common Reader circulated to hundreds of thousands of readers and at its peak sold over 300,000 books a year. Its in-house imprint
Akadine Press
republished over 60 out-of-print books by such authors as

Lillian Beckwith Lillian Beckwith (25 April 1916 – 3 January 2004), real name Lillian Comber, was an English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Isle of Skye. Born Lilian Lloyd in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, she married Edw ...

Alice Thomas Ellis Alice Thomas Ellis (born Ann Margaret Lindholm, 9 September 1932 – 8 March 2005) was an English writer and essayist born in Liverpool. She wrote numerous novels and some non-fiction, including cookery books. Life Ellis was born in Liverpool to ...

Barbara Holland Barbara Murray Holland (April 5, 1933 – September 7, 2010) was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up ...

Reynolds Price Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in Biblical ...

, and

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. Mustich graduated from

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in 1977.

References

External links

Book Expo 2018: James Mustich: Man On a Mission

"1,000 Books to Read"

* ttps://lithub.com/what-its-like-to-write-a-book-full-of-books/ "What It's Like to Write A Book Full of Books"(LitHub, October 10, 2018)
"Using a Reading List to Measure a Life"
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