10 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of options while trying to choose your next book?

With millions of books worldwide and more being published every day, choosing what to read next is becoming increasingly challenging. While some people read for pleasure, others may not be so eager and wish to read for health reasons or to establish a reading habit but are unsure where to begin.

Here are the top 10 books that you must read.

1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is the ultimate Black Lives Matter book, shedding light on the realities of how society constantly represses a race. This book is highly emotional and thought-provoking, and it is written with a great deal of sensitivity and honesty.

2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is a well-known historical romance that is considered a classic, but it offers so much more! For magnificent characters, well ahead of its time feminism, and incredibly amusing and hilarious exchanges, read this one.

3. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl was published in Dutch in 1946 and is the real diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. While Anne died of typhus in a concentration camp, her words were preserved in this book written by her father. It is a firsthand account of the atrocities of WW2 that everyone should read.

4. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Charles Duhigg unfolds the complexities of the brain in this illuminating and interesting book, revealing how we acquire habits, how these habits affect our lives, and, more significantly, how we can use this knowledge to reform bad habits and replace them with new ones.

5. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell has the ability to see things from a distinct perspective. Outliers are one of the best behavioral psychology books to read, as it is intellectually challenging and eye-opening. It is highly interesting, carefully researched, and truly mind-blowing.

6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World is a fantastic dystopian tale that accurately depicts the horrific future that our society is likely to face. The sheer genius of its premise makes it intellectually interesting and a must-read, despite its fairly bad writing. It is a contentious book that has been banned by a number of countries in the past for a variety of reasons.

7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Woman is a classic that is enjoyed by both young and old. It is a beautiful and heartwarming story of the March sisters. Love and death, war and peace, the battle between personal ambition and family duties, and the collision of civilizations between Europe and America are all explored in this film.

8. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

This is a book that will stay with you forever since it is a heartbreakingly beautiful and intimate narrative of friendship, devotion, regret, and redemption. This debut novel by Khaled Hosseini is intensely emotional and brilliantly structured, set against the backdrop of Afghanistan's history. I defy you not to cry when reading this!

9. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Another wonderful and straightforward read about love, life, grief, and death. Tuesdays With Morrie serves as a timely reminder that "you learn to die, you learn to live." This is a must-read for people of all ages, as it is filled with endless pearls of knowledge.

10. Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm is a deceptively simple fairy tale about pigs, goats, lambs, cows, puppies, hens, and humans. This novella is a moving reflection on society's cycle, in which an oppressor is deposed just to be replaced by another oppressor. The story, according to Orwell, reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and later into the Soviet Union's Stalinist era.