Books to me are a getaway to someplace far from the bleak and ordinary, filled with imagination, fantasy, intriguing tales, men with ripped revealing abs and damsels in distress. My favorite genres have always circled around horror and mystery; there's always something brewing and it keeps you hooked from cover to cover. Instead of always picking up that magazine and flipping through fashion and gadget info, read a book instead and subject your mind to get involved, not to mention help awaken an imagination that's waiting to come to the fore. Here you'll find a list on the must read books of all time worth curling up to with a cup of Joe, as well as books that will have kids reading well past midnight, under the sheets, the pages illuminated by torchlight. Back in school I was so obsessed with reading (not like it has simmered down), I'd prop it up against my textbook and pretend like I was studying. Being an avid reader, I encourage people to read, and let their minds saturate all that text that will help strengthen their writing skills and vocabulary. Must Read Books for Women Women, more than men, I think, have a love for reading that is more inborn than bred. I wish more men would read, so that they'd be good conversationalists when it came to discussing great reading. Women can check out these books, as well as men, since they aren't all that chick oriented.

List of Must Read Books for Women
The Awakening	Kate Choplin
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott
To the Lighhouse	Virginia Woolf
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mocking Bird	Harper Lee
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women in Love	D.H. Lawrence
Middlemarch	George Elliot
Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë
The Arabian Nights	Compilation Stories
Frankenstein	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The House of Mirth	Edith Wharton
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
My Life in France	Julia Child
The Liar's Club	Mary Karr
The Woman Warrior	Maxine Hong Kingston
Manhattan: When I Was Young	Mary Cantwell
Her Last Death	Susanna Sonnenberg
The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
Ida: A Sword Among Lions	Paula J. Giddings
The Feminine Mystique	Betty Friedan

Must Read Books On Fiction There are a lot of writers out there, both men and women, who know how to use words and change it into a form that people can relate to, or the kind that probes their sense of imagination. Here we look into books of a fictional nature, that you can get down to reading.

List of Must Read Fiction Based Books
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini
A Mercy	Toni Morrison
The Angel's Game	Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Abstinence Teacher	Tom Perrotta
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	Seth Grahame Smith
Long Time Coming	Sandra Brown
Adventures of a Salsa Goddess	Joann Hornak
Millennium Babe: The Prophecy	Betty Dravis
The Aristocrat: Mira Romance	Catherine Coulter
Chasing Demons	Christy Tillery French
Thief of Hearts	Rosamond McPherson Young
Eyes of Fire	Heather Graham Pozzessere
Invisible	Paul Auster
Bag of Bones	Stephen King
Malice	Danielle Steel

Must Read Books Recommended by the NY Times These books are highly recommended reads by the New York Times. Feast your eyes on some of these best selling books, that every book lover must make a point to get their hands on.

NY Times Book List
Fall of Giants	Ken Follett
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest	Stieg Larrson
Safe Haven	Nicholas Sparks
The Reversal	Michael Connelly
Trickle Up Poverty	Michael Savage
The Roots of Obama's Rage	Dinesh D'souza
Little Bee	Chris Cleave
Half Broke Horses	Jeannette Walls
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larrson
61 Hours	Lee Child
Crave	J.R Ward
Eat Pray Love	Elizabeth Gilbert
The Accidental Billionaires	Ben Mezrich
Where Men Will Glory	John Krakauer
Divine Transformation	Zhi Gang Sha
Delivering Happiness	Tony Hsieh
Love, Lust and Faking It	Jenny McCarthy
American Vampire: Vol 1	Scott Snyder, Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque
The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel	Diana Gabaldon and Hoang Nguyen
Blackest Night	Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis

Must Read Books for Kids Kids can now refer to the following list of must read novels, for books that will definitely be worth your time. Parents and teachers need to also understand that reading for children is important to help them grow and incorporate books into their lives.

List of Must Read Books for Kids
How to Eat Fried Worms	Thomas Rockwell
The Great Brain	John D. Fitzgerald
Westmark Trilogy	Lloyd Alexander
Harry Potter Set	JK Rowling
The Hobbit	J.R.R Tolkien
Lord of the Flies	William Golding
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle
The Giver	Lois Lowry
The Cay	Theodore Taylor
The Sign of the Beaver	Elizabeth George Speare
Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls
Matilda	Roald Dahl
The Outsiders	S. E. Hinton
The Chaos Walking Trilogy	Patrick Ness
A Little History of the World	EH Gombrich
Witch Child	Celia Rees
Exposure	Mal Peet
The White Darkness	Geraldine McCaughrean
Tom's Midnight Garden	Philippa Pearce
Skellig	David Almond

With these well sorted book lists, I'm sure you'll find yourself with a stock full of great reads, to place on your bookshelf to read as and when you like. Start reading already!