When you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personality as a teen, or ones that inspired you. Whatever conditions you want. These are your favorites after all.
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Rating
Readers Count
White Oleander
Janet Fitch
3.79
75 reads
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
4.33
23 reads
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Willa Muir (Translator)
Edwin Muir (Translator)
4.04
216 reads
The Assassin's Blade
Sarah J. Maas
4.06
307 reads
Empire of the Damned
Jay Kristoff
4.59
21 reads
The Bone Shard Daughter
Andrea Stewart
4.26
85 reads
The War of Two Queens
Jennifer L. Armentrout
3.78
75 reads
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert
3.9
209 reads
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
3.92
219 reads
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
3.87
474 reads
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
3.95
111 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
3.94
125 reads
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Sam Ngo
3.82
356 reads
Divergent
Veronica Roth
3.71
985 reads
Shōgun
James Clavell
4.16
146 reads
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
3.93
346 reads
La magia muerde
Ilona Andrews
3.58
128 reads
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
4.09
28 reads
Mort
Terry Pratchett
4.06
435 reads
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
4.05
576 reads
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Ann Goldstein
4.05
156 reads
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
4.06
1,167 reads
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
4
128 reads
Fool's Fate
Robin Hobb
4.51
139 reads
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Joel Martinsen (Translator)
4.23
454 reads
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
William Hope
Laurel Lefkow
3.89
422 reads
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
3.98
241 reads
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
4.51
178 reads
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
4.41
166 reads
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
4.26
137 reads
Red Sister
Mark Lawrence
4.18
166 reads
House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds
4.21
94 reads
Fevre Dream
George R.R. Martin
3.55
47 reads
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
4
173 reads
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
3.91
131 reads
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
3.9
319 reads
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
3.9
123 reads
Pet Sematary
Stephen King
3.96
432 reads
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.16
250 reads
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
3.7
256 reads
Left Behind
Tim LaHaye
Jerry B. Jenkins
3.22
75 reads
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
3.75
738 reads
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
4.14
76 reads
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.72
340 reads
Revival
Stephen King
3.73
134 reads
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
4.4
87 reads
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
3.96
364 reads
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
4.15
458 reads
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
3.93
309 reads
The Wicked King
Holly Black
4.15
329 reads
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
4.27
289 reads
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
3.9
232 reads
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
3.99
250 reads
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
3.73
274 reads
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
4.19
287 reads
Wizard And Glass
Stephen King
4.09
274 reads
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
4.03
281 reads
All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews
4.39
26 reads
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Constance Garnett (Translator)
3.92
319 reads
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.73
279 reads
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
3.86
155 reads
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
4.06
92 reads
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
3.75
127 reads
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
3.87
132 reads
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
4.19
297 reads
The Basic Eight
Daniel Handler
4.08
18 reads
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
3.54
197 reads
The Thief
Megan Whalen Turner
3.74
102 reads
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
3.61
164 reads
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
3.78
296 reads
It
Stephen King
4.07
532 reads
Wizard of Oz.
L. Frank Baum
Ella Okstad
W. w. Denslow
Michael Patrick Hearn
Dynos Design
Anne Hathaway
Tom Sinnickson
Germán Vives
Olimpia Zagnoli
WIlliam Wallace Denslow
Robert Ingpen
Rosa María Borràs Montané
Cristina Rodríguez Fischer
Rebecca Burns
W W Denslow
Fabien Clavel
Jean-Philippe Taboulot
Yvette Métral
Dyno Designs
Monique Luiken
Jeroen van Luiken-Bakker
Baum
L Frank Baum
jaime arbe
Séamus Ó Coileáin
Jose perez
monica alonso
Yenis Adelaira Ochoa
Marc Cornelis
Wirton Arvott
3.77
230 reads
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
4.19
390 reads
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
4.5
22 reads
Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
Ursule Molinaro (Translator)
4.07
28 reads
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Amy Wallace
4.36
104 reads
The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
4
171 reads
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
3.87
169 reads
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
3.9
384 reads
Heir to the Empire
Timothy Zahn
4.03
205 reads
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
4.03
163 reads
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Kathy Emery
Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.31
122 reads
The Iliad
Homer
Alexander Pope (Translator)
4
45 reads
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
3.88
128 reads
The White Dragon
Anne McCaffrey
3.83
73 reads
The Witches
Roald Dahl
3.95
216 reads
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
4.11
469 reads
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
4.12
201 reads
Middlemarch
George Eliot
4.15
93 reads
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
4.24
84 reads
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
4.17
124 reads
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
4.03
157 reads
Alanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce
4.14
134 reads
Use Of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
4.04
118 reads
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
4.42
114 reads
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