The Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council’s (MLA) survey determined the answer to this question is To Kill a Mockingbird.
Interestingly, this is a British organisation.
I can’t disagree with them.
Although Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a beautiful and terse account of a social problem still to be over come in the world I would say that Daniel Pinkerton’s Guys from Space is a far more significant read.
“How to ride your unicycle” by Charlie Dancey.
or the HHGTTG trilogy in five parts.
T.
HtKaM? I’m really not sure why that would be a must read for anyone…it only represents the culture of a very small fraction of the earth.
This is really a tough question…what novel could anyone from all reaches of this world really feel connected too in some way?
Because it deals with a problem that continues to exist worldwide in some form.
The one, the only, and my favorite…
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i like that one yoopers!!
Horton is my surname!
T.
Horton Hears a Who is a dramatic lesson in patience and persistence. Even more so, it’s a dynamic lesson in working together to accomplish a goal as well as a lesson in paying attention to detail and especially the little guy. Come together, work together, fight the good fight, look out for the needs of others. How much more life lesson does one need? Everything is contained very concisely in one simple book.
the Bible…or the Qur’an.
Horton never actually heard the Who. The Who was heard by someone else who told Horton about it and the Who myth has been so largely blown out of proportion that it is no longer possible to separate the Who of history and the Who of modern day Whoianity. In fact, the Who originally only wanted to be heard by women. Horton, being the misogynist that he was, suppressed that and formed a secret society to protect the great cover-up.
Karl Popper: The Open Society and its Enemies
My apologies. What an embarrassment. All of the literary among you will realize that it is Daniel Pinkwater who penned Guys from Space.
Some book called ‘How to live longer’
Cathy
The Old Man and the Boy--------Robert Ruark
Follow with Sequel—The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older
Then, now that you understand a little about Robert Ruark----
SOMETHING OF VALUE----not for squeamish folks!!!
Johnathan Livingston Seagull
The Life & Death of Peter Sellers
Poe
Shakespere
MAd Magazine
Art Vandelay (Obscure writer)
Hustler:D
Art Vandelay - Venetian Blinds
Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
It’s deep.
lol
the bible (all the hundreds of books that exist) 
but thats just me
a short history of nearly everything by bill bryson