This summer, during these strange strange times, immerse yourself in words that have touched all of us and will always get to the core of all of us, of every single person. Books that have made us think, change, relate, cry and laugh:
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
The Madman (Kahlil Gibran)
Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
The Overcoat (Gogol)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
Odes (John Keats)
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Vanity Fair (Thackeray)
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
A Room with a View (E. M. Forster)
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Republic (Plato)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Art of War (Sun Tzu)
Candide (Voltaire)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Decameron (Boccaccio)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud)
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Call of the Wild
Alice in Wonderland
The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm
The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen