Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

The book is really beautiful: the cover, the illustrations, and the formatting. Kakutani, the former chief book critic of The New York Times, presents a list of books that were amongst the most influential for her. There were plenty on her list that I already wanted to read and I enjoyed her summaries of them but unfortunately, I wasn't convinced to pick up most of what wasn't already on my list.