Recently, we asked our BuzzFeed Community to share the books they consider essential reading, and they didn't disappoint. So here are some amazing fiction and non fiction books to add to your reading list!
1. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
2. Promising Young Women by Caroline O’Donohgue
3. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Know My Name by Chanel Miller
6. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
7. Welcome To Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
8. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
9. If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura
10. Night by Elie Wiesel
11. All About Love by bell hooks
12. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
13. We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
14. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
15. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
16. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
17. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
18. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
19. Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
20. How To Fail by Elizabeth Day
21. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
22. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
23. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
24. Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
25. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
26. And finally, Maus by Art Spiegelman.
Which ones have you read already? Don't forget to share all of your own must-reads in the comments!
Some answers have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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