Books Everyone Should Read

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~ Paul Sweeney

It is very important to be a good reader, as books are full of treasures of knowledge and help you live a life of imagination that is not only thought-provoking, but turn your dreams into reality. I love books and can devour two books in a day. It is not only a mere saying that books are your true friends, they actually are your true friends. People think books are a passe and no one really ever picks one up. But even today people do write books and people do read them. There are best sellers churned out even today and older publications have more than 50 editions published.

Reading is a pleasurable experience and you can read at your leisure. You can read Astriex, the Gaul or even enjoy Black Beauty. You can even go ahead and do some heavy reading with War and Peace by Tolstoy's. You can get lost in the magical world of Lord of the Rings and read some science fiction like 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep'. How about some adventure with Treasure Island or Bridge to Terabithia. The following is a list of books everyone should read. These are classic books everyone should read in their lifetime, that have been enjoyed by readers over the years.

Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime

Book	Author
The Home and the World	Rabindranath Tagore
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	John le Carre
The Tale of Genji	Lady Murasaki
The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing
Eugene Onegin	Alexander Pushkin
1984	George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess
For Whom the Bells Tolls	Ernest Hemongway
The Rights of Man	Tom Paine
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Origin of Species	Charles Darwin
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
Four Quartelets	T. S Eliot
Catch - 22	Joseph Heller
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Slaughterhouse	Kurt Vonnegut
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
The Rights of Man	Tom Paine
As a Men Thinketh	James Allen
A Manual for Living	Epectitus
The University of Hard Knocks	Ralp Parlette
The Power of Subconscious Mind	Joseph Murphy
The Greatest Salesman in the World	Og Mandino
The Reader	Bernhard Schilnk
My Name is Red	Orhan Pamuk
London Fields	Martin Amis
The Tin Drum	Guinter Grass
Austerlitz	W. G Sebald

Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once

The above list was a mix genre books that everyone should read. There are many more classic books everyone should read like Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov that is about a scholar's sexual obsession with a prepubescent 'nymphet'. His life is further complicated by the girl's mother's passion for him. Or you could read Beloved, by Toni Morrison a tale about the brutal and haunting journey down the American slavery.

Mystery lovers can read The Voyier by Alain Robbe-Grillet that revolves around a murder plot of a girl who has been killed by the watch salesman. Adventurous souls will find delight in reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It is about a young boy and a runaway slave who set sail on the Mississippi to get away from 'civilization'.

Ghost Busters will get a kick out of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is about a drug addict who chases a ghostly dog in the midnight moors. If you love the scandals then The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and Anna Karenian by Leo Tolstoy will satisfy your tastes. You can read the story of Captain Ahab, who is seeking vengeance from the white whale Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

One cannot forget reading Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, about the quinquagenarian gentleman on a hose tilting at windmills. My favorite Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe about a slave trader who is shipwrecked and gets closer to God, and finds a native to convert and makes him a real friend.

I can go on and on about the books everyone should read at least once. Every person should indulge in some book reading to be able to set free his mind. There are infinite books that you can be classified as books everyone should read before they die. I may have missed out many great books worth mentioning like Harry Potter series and Pride and Prejudice. Books are your treasures and is rightly said by Jim Rohn said, "Poor people have big TVs, rich people have big libraries." A man who continues to read will never lose anything, only gain a lot of treasure from his true friends, books.