Classics:
* Fiction:
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
* The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
* 1984 by George Orwell
* Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
* Moby Dick by Herman Melville
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
* Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
* Non-Fiction:
* Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
* Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
* The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
* Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
* Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Contemporary:
* Fiction:
* The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
* The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
* Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
* The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
* Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
* Circe by Madeline Miller
* The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
* Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
* A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
* The Rover by Joseph Conrad
* Non-Fiction:
* The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
* Educated by Tara Westover
* Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
* The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
* The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Genre Specific:
* Science Fiction:
* Dune by Frank Herbert
* Foundation by Isaac Asimov
* The Martian by Andy Weir
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
* Fantasy:
* A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin
* The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
* The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
* Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson
* The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
* Mystery/Thriller:
* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
* Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
* The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
* The Guest List by Lucy Foley
* The Chain by Adrian McKinty
* Historical Fiction:
* The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
* The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
* The Help by Kathryn Stockett
* The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
* Romance:
* The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
* Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
* The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
* Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
* Beach Read by Emily Henry
This is just a starting point! Explore different genres, authors, and periods. Find books that intrigue you and that you can't put down.
Happy reading! 📚