As a creative writing major, I cannot undersell the value of reading. It is such a transformational habit, one that will shape your mind, inform your values and beliefs and allow you to exercise your critical thinking skills, show off a great variety of general knowledge and consolidate your capacity. Through fiction, you learn to experience the realities of the time the literature was created, including the realities of some of the voices of our modern generation. Non-fiction, on the other hand, benefits you by helping you to accumulate important information, gain skills that can help you be a marketable person and allow you to understand important subjects, like history, philosophy and psychology. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Reading is so refreshing and once you establish a habit of doing it, you will experience an improvement in cognition. Therefore, I have listed a bunch of my favourite books in both the fiction and non-fiction categories. Additionally, I'll add you some that even I haven't read but are on my wishlist, or which I still think are important critically for development.