books you feel like everyone should read at least once

[Andy]

John wrote: "Andy wrote: "That Was Then, This is Now and The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes"

I read both of these years ago and they were both excellent reads. MIght have to re-..."

You and me both, but I think for me it was about 35 years ago.

[roguereader]

The Jinn Daughter
Where the Crawdads Sing
1984
Fahrenheit 451

[Tasha]

The Book Thief
The Kite Runner
The Hobbit

[Mila]

Jane Eyre

[Eliude]

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Espinhos no Bosque Sagrado by Eliude A Santos

[Barb]

Little Women
Diary of Anne Frank
Frankenstein
Before We Were Yours
Prince of Tides
The Nightingale

[Ren]

Klara and the Sun
Misery
You've Reached Sam
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Lovely Bones

[Saanvi]

The Penderwicks series
Harry Potter series
A Place to Hang the Moon
The Land of Stories series
St. Clare's series

[Bruce]

I enjoy historical fiction. Two "must read" books are; Shogun and Lonesome Dove.

[Lady Grace]

A Gentleman in Moscow
The Hunger Games
1984
Flowers for Algernon
Lord of the Rings

[Shannon]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

...and I could go on and on:) I really did like all the interest in Flowers for Algernon, too. Read it in high school & loved it...

[Samaya]

The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
Siddhartha - Hermann Hess
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
The Road Less Traveled - Scott Peck
The Four Agreements - Miguel Ruiz
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief - Gregg Braden

[Shelby]

the hunger games
to Kill A mocking bird
the secret garden
the Bible (even if just a few passages)
the first Narnia book
Little Women
Huckleberry Finn

[Isabella]

1. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
4. "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5. "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
6. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
7. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
8. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
9. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
10. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
11. "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
12. "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

[Sonali]

Gitanjali by Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur(spiritual)
Mahabharat (this one is complicated and I have a very complex relationship with this book)
Dairy of Anne Frank(I don't need do say anything on this do I?)
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The three Musketeers
Heidi
The list I will keep on adding

[Sonali]

Isabella wrote: "1. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
4. "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5..."

Wow what a wonderful list

[rowan molloy]

Babel by RF Kuang for me!

I want more people to read it and cry with me.

[Malakai]

Refugee by Alan Gratz

[Sonali]

andrei wrote: "Babel by RF Kuang for me!

I want more people to read it and cry with me."

War and Peace. Lets cry together

[Jane]

Books that stay with you that have the big ideas and there have been quite a few of them but,…
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1984, George Orwell
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

[Luís]

"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

[Macy]

Theyre nonfic but the Gift of Fear by Gavin Debecker and Man’s Search for meaning by Viktor e Frankl

[Flo]

1. Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez.
2. Rayuela, Julio Cortázar.
3. La casa de los espíritus, Isabel Allende.
4. El túnel, Ernesto Sábato.
5. Bonsái, Alejandro Zambra.
6. Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo.

[Kimberlee]

A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman

[Natalie]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath

[Amna]

Kimberlee wrote: "A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman"

I loved this one, too. The feelings, the emotions...

Backman's "And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer" is great too.

[Shannon]

Kimberlee wrote: "A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman"

GREAT book!

[Steffie]

ACOTAR and Crescent City.