What is Literature?

In my opinion, literature is anything that strikes emotion in the reader. If a book can make you cry, laugh out loud or even emphasise with a character it should be considered a great work. Literature shouldn't be a book that critics have classified as a classic because everyone has their own taste. Literature should mean something different to each individual and strike a different feeling and view in them. I believe that literature should be a variety of works and include all sorts of books and novels that will be suited to everyone. This way literature will have so much more appeal as it invites a reader to take their pick and read what attracts them instead of reading something that another person decided to categorise as a classic. Someone may thoroughly love a novel that another person may hate, it depends on how the book made them feel and the angle they read it from. Literature could be anything, there are so many possibilities, it depends on what each person enjoys as an individual.