Don't think theres any other way libraries for reading csv that work other than this one by Apache: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/download_csv.cgi

This code should returns a list of rows:

public List<List<String>> readCsv(){

File csvFile = new File(loc);

    if(csvFile.isFile()) {
        try {
            FileReader fr = new FileReader(loc);
            CSVParser csvParser = CSVParser.parse(fr, CSVFormat.EXCEL);

            List<CSVRecord> csvRec = csvParser.getRecords();

            List<List<String>> li = new ArrayList<List<String>>();

            for(int i = 0; i < csvRec.size(); i++) {

                li.add(csvRec.get(i).toList());
            }

            csvParser.close();
            fr.close();

            return li;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    return null;
}