20 books that you simply have to read
The best books you read have the potential to linger in your head, long after you've finished them. Some can even affect the way you think!

E-commerce website Amazon has listed 100 books that 'one should read in a lifetime'. Here are our top 20 books from the list. How many have you read already?
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy... by Ishmael Beah
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley
- Charlotte's Web by Garth Williams, E. B. White
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt, Brooke Zimmer
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, William J. Winslade
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