6 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Ben's list without the spoilers: 1. Anna Karenina 2. The Brothers Karamazov 3. Moby Dick 4. Every Man Dies Alone 5. Life & Fate 6. East of Eden You're welcome😉

English Literature: I Will Die for Honor French Literature: I Will Die for Love American Literature: I Will Die for Freedom Russian Literature: I Will Die.

The fact that green eggs and ham isn’t on here should be criminal.

Now we wait for Matt Walsh's rebuttal to Ben's selection.

Hey Ben. Please make more videos like this. Top 5 political biographies next?

Great books! When I turned 16, i made the decision to read all of Tolstoy, all of Dickens, & all of Steinbeck before my next birthday- was one of the best decisions I ever made.

“Of Mice and Men” for the ending alone is a must read.

After my Mom died when I was 47, I went through a serious midlife crisis. I had read Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich in college twenty years before and I weirdly started thinking of that book all the time. Hadn’t thought of it in years. I told my husband , Tolstoy was a Christian, I just know it. I won’t go into it, but he was later in life and was when he wrote Ivan but not during Anna Karenina or W & P. Anyway, I read it again and what a message about wasting your life and what matters! Perfect midlife message (He also told me to study Ecclesiastes) and so Tolstoy has always had a soft spot in my heart. Interestingly he is even tied to Ghandi and MLK. God is so kind to worry about and help little nobodies like me with book recommendations 😊.

Les Miserables needs to be here- I know it’s been watered down by musicals and movies but the full unabridged book is a true life-changing experience

I've only read 'The Brothers Karamazov' from this list, but I can say with confidence that if you have the patience for it, the experience will be truly life altering.