Our experience is read books. Our knowledge is read books. Our life with you is composed, like a puzzle, of the facts read. Our memory is
a synthesis of what we read. We are what we read.
Here, perhaps, how can we characterize the importance of literature in our lives. Today it comes down to reading War and Peace in just 20 minutes. This opportunity arises from the fact that current generations are simply too lazy to pick up this massive novel and at least flip through it. Therefore, summaries are written in which often there is no morality, but only a dry statement of facts. All the literary heritage that has been accumulating for the current generation is gradually becoming unnecessary. And maybe even, soon we will come to what Ray Bradberry wrote about in one of his famous novels.
Main of the lists
However, be that as it may, books still nourish people who want to achieve something more than they have from birth. And almost every such person has his own personal list of books that everyone should read. For those who are seriously interested in reading books and love them as a source of new knowledge, many world-famous magazines compile their lists of "100 books that everyone should read."
Such lists mainly include classical works, such as, for example: Don Quixote, Faust, Romeo and Juliet and many others. Of the works written in the 20th century, James Joyce’s beautiful and very complex Ulysses novel, several works by
Ernest Hemingway, including “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” a series of novels by John Updike, often fall into the lists. If you take the list compiled by Time magazine, in addition to the above, you can find several novels by John Fowles, including The Magus and The Collector. The list of “100 books that everyone should read and which can change a person”, which is very relevant today, includes such short works as “The Myth about Beauty” by Naomi Woolf and “The Incredible Story of Benjamin Button” by Fitzgerald.
Conclusion
Such lists of 100 books that everyone who appreciates should read in magazines every day. Most of the above books are repeated in them, taking up different places.
And although each such list is largely written based on subjective opinions, nevertheless each of the books that occupies any line in them is important, because it talks about something truly important and great. If you pick up works like Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas or The Clock and read them from beginning to end, you may understand some truths that many people still cannot understand. These truths are hidden in every literary heritage, in every little brochure, in every novel, story or poem, they just need to be subtracted. The list of 100 books that everyone should read can be compiled by any person and at any age. But for this you need to read 1000 books. Truth and knowledge have always been drawn from books, and undoubtedly, this will continue to be the case.