As they say, your growth in life depends on two things – the kind of books you read and the kind of people you associate yourself with. Being granted free will by the Almighty, you, as an individual, can easily take care of the two aforementioned requisites. The books that you read during your college years and the life thereafter are going to have a profound impact on your thinking and will be instrumental in shaping your character. World-renowned books have it in them to inculcate in you the qualities that will transform you into a better human being

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10 Books That Need To Be Read Compulsorily
As they say, your growth in life depends on two things – the kind of books you read and
the kind of people you associate yourself with. Being granted free will by the Almighty,
you, as an individual, can easily take care of the two aforementioned requisites. The
books that you read during your college years and the life thereafter are going to have a
profound impact on your thinking and will be instrumental in shaping your character.
World-renowned books have it in them to inculcate in you the qualities that will
transform you into a better human being.
Below, you will find 10 books that have retained their popularity with the passage of time
and have gone on to gain a cult status in the world of literature:
1. 1984, George Orwell
There have been very few dystopian novels that have matched the
standards set by this masterpiece by George Orwell. Imagine a
society that has the government exercising control even over the
thoughts of its citizenry.
2. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian literature at its best. Crime and Punishment takes readers
inside the psyche of a criminal, who on committing a murder,
enters a perpetual state of introspection.
3. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
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The term 'Catch 22' owes its genesis to this book wherein the
backdrop is World War II and the story progresses in a nonchronological order. The novel underlines the futility of war.
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4. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Another highly acclaimed dystopian novel wherein the author
creates a futuristic world that is a far cry from the one inhabited
presently by us. Kudos to Aldous Huxley's imagination that
succeeds in completely altering the functioning of the human race.
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of the initial exponents of magic realism pens a book, which is
characterized by the commingling of fantasy and reality from
beginning till end. Of course, you will have to keep reverting to the
family tree at the beginning of the book or else you may lose the
thread easily.
6. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Jazz Age comes alive in this novella and so does its hollowness.
It is through a simple story that F. Scott Fitzgerald brings home the
message that he intended to convey to his readers.
7. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
To say that Things Fall Apart is synonymous with African literature will
not be a hyperbole. Readers have been profoundly influenced by the
character of Okonkwo and the transition that the African society goes
through.
Your aversion to autobiographies shall not dissuade you from reading
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which has been given an
exalted position in American literature.
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8. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
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9. Lolita, Vladamir Nobokov
The erotic content of Lolita is not the only high point of this book or it
would not have featured in the lists of top 50 and top 100 books that
have occasionally been issued by renowned institutions and
publications.
10. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
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The story of a family that survives the Great Depression and
ultimately realizes its dream of a better life makes for compelling
reading and is truly inspirational.
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