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21 Books Everyone Needs To Read Before They Die

BuzzFeed asked a bunch of librarians at New York Comic-Con what books they'd recommend everyone read before they die.

1. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman

2. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

3. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

4. When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

6. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

8. Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen, Shannon Watters

9. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

10. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

11. A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle

12. The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

13. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

14. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

15. The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson

16. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny

17. Any book by Joe Hill

18. The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox

19. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

20. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

21. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling