Books·Posted on Oct 8, 201521 Books Everyone Needs To Read Before They DieBuzzFeed asked a bunch of librarians at New York Comic-Con what books they'd recommend everyone read before they die.by Alanna BennettBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 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