Worried by the closure of book stores in her home town of Nashville, Tennessee, award-winning author Ann Patchett decided to take matters into her own hands.

So she opened Parnassus, where you can drop in, grab some quality books and get a must-read list from a must-read author.

Here is Ms. Patchett's current 'must read' list:

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Knopf, Canada)

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert K. Massie (Random House)

Train Dreams, Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson (Ecco.)

The All Of It, Jeannette Halen (HarperCollins)