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Recently, we asked our BuzzFeed Community toshare the booksthey 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.Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier

2.Promising Young Womenby Caroline O’Donohgue

3.Invisible Womenby Caroline Criado Perez

4.Gileadby Marilynne Robinson

5.Know My Nameby Chanel Miller

6.The Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka

7.Welcome To Nowhereby Elizabeth Laird

8.Reasons to Stay Aliveby Matt Haig

9.IfCatsDisappeared From the Worldby Genki Kawamura

10.Nightby Elie Wiesel

11.All About Loveby bell hooks

12.Big Magicby Elizabeth Gilbert

13.We Are Not Like Themby Christine Pride & Jo Piazza

14.The Alienistby Caleb Carr

15.The Artist’s Wayby Julia Cameron

16.The Roadby Cormac McCarthy

17.Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt Vonnegut

18.Tuck Everlastingby Natalie Babbitt

19.Year of Yesby Shonda Rhimes

20.How To Failby Elizabeth Day

21.Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. Taylor

22.East of Edenby John Steinbeck

23.Black Beautyby Anna Sewell

24.Come As You Areby Emily Nagoski

25.The Five People You Meet In Heavenby Mitch Albom

26.And finally,Mausby Art Spiegelman.

Some answers have been edited for distance and/or clearness .

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Cover of "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men" by Caroline Criado Perez, featuring silhouettes of men and women and review quotes

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Cover of the book "Know My Name: A Memoir" by Chanel Miller, featuring a simple design with gold lines

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Book cover of "Reasons to Stay Alive" by Matt Haig, with praise from Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley

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Cover of the book "All About Love: New Visions" by bell hooks, stating "New York Times Bestseller"

Cover of the book "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear" by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Cover of the book "The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" by Julia Cameron, featuring a gray background with a yellow border

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Cover of the book "Year of Yes" by Shonda Rhimes, with subtitle "How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person." Badge reads "New York Times Bestseller."

Book cover: "How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong" by Elizabeth Day. Tagline by Dolly Alderton

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Cover of "Come As You Are" by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., a New York Times bestseller on the science of sex and transforming your sex life

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