The title pretty much says it all which books do you think that everyone should read?
I personally can’t think of any that I would require everyone to read when I become dictator.
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan.
A bit dated, but Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman.
Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut.
Captured by Aliens by Joel Aurbach (sp?)
The Great American Novel by Astroboy14 (yet to be written, but I’m a thinkin’!)
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury.
Lord of the Flies-Golding
Death of a Salesman-Miller
Anger-Madow
Make Friends with your Shadow-Miller
If you Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him-Kopp
The Foxfire Book-Wigginton
Lonesome Dove-McMurtry
Perfect Storm-Junger
Young Men and Fire-Maclean
Cold Mountain-Frazier
Timeless:
1984, George Orwell
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
Alice In wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
At Home In the Universe, Stuart Kauffman
The Straight Dope, Cecil Adams 
Timely:
The Betrayal of America, Vincent Bugliosi
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken
The Microsoft File, Wendy Rohm
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1984 by George Owell
Lies My Teacher Told Me by Zack Lowe or A Different Kind of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection by James West Davidson and Mark H. Lytle. In the narrow sense, it’s a book about historical scholarship. But in the broader sense, it has a lot of valuable insight into how to look at evidence in all kinds of situations.
Dubliners, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.
Animal Farm
I can think of few books that can give such a fundamental explanation of such an important topic.
And Ada, or Ardor, A Family Chronicle, by the same.
Also, in the non-fiction category, The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins.
Ishmael, The Story Of B and My Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. I just finished reading it tonight (this morning?) and I think it might just be the best book I’ve ever read. Actually, people should be reading a lot more Dick in general. I think he might just be the most underrated American writer of all time. Yeah, uh, pick this book the hell up.
Hrm… if I become dictator, everyone in my Protectorate will be reading The Bridges of Madison County.
A populace in a semi-comatose state is a populace which is not plotting to overthrow or otherwise inconvenience its benevolent cough cough leader.
Word.
Ditto Sagan’s “The Demon Haunted World.”
Also “The Lucifer Principle” by Howard Bloom.
Of Human Bondage, W Somerset Maugham
Brazzaville Beach, William Boyd
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Honourable Schoolboy, John Le Carre
The Wasteland, TS Eliot
Night by Elie Wiesel. Dealing with WW2 concentration camp and its atrocities as told through the eyes of a teen age boy who went on to win a Nobel Peace prize in 1980. Fast, dark, grim read.
Donbas by Jacques Sandalescue ( sp?) WW2 schoolboy is taken prisoner by the Russians and sent to work in a slave labor camp in Siberia. His story, his escape is nothing short of amazing. True story.
Why these books need to be read So that these horrible things that humans did to other humans may never happen again and that the human spirit can endure.
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley