Those books that they have to get to before they die. It is an innovative and challenging piece of literary fiction, exactly the kind of book readers need to stop avoiding and at least try to read before it is too late. As I Lay Dying is the story of Addie Bundren, a dying woman who starts the book watching her son build her coffin. The result is a meditation on contemporary death, dying, and morality that readers will be talking about for a long time. Tell us your top "must read before you die" books, readers!