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
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
3.86
155 reads
All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews
4.39
26 reads
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
3.9
232 reads
Night Watch
Terry Pratchett
4.44
165 reads
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
3.65
160 reads
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
3.9
319 reads
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
4.14
76 reads
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
4.06
92 reads
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
4.51
178 reads
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.27
258 reads
Revival
Stephen King
3.73
134 reads
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
4.43
24 reads
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
4.15
458 reads
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
3.75
127 reads
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
3.96
364 reads
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.72
340 reads
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
David Wyllie (Translator)
3.9
157 reads
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
3.73
51 reads
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
3.87
132 reads
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
4.19
297 reads
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
4
128 reads
The Guncle
Steven Rowley
3.99
68 reads
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
4.19
287 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 Wicked King
Holly Black
4.15
329 reads
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
3.73
274 reads
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.73
279 reads
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
3.78
296 reads
Wizard And Glass
Stephen King
4.09
274 reads
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
4.19
390 reads
The Iliad
Homer
Alexander Pope (Translator)
4
45 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
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Constance Garnett (Translator)
3.92
319 reads
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
3.9
384 reads
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
4
299 reads
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
3.88
128 reads
Shōgun
James Clavell
4.16
146 reads
The White Dragon
Anne McCaffrey
3.83
73 reads
The Witches
Roald Dahl
3.95
216 reads
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
4.12
201 reads
It
Stephen King
4.07
532 reads
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
4.17
124 reads
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
Adrian Nathan West (Translator)
4.15
57 reads
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
3.61
164 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
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
3.87
169 reads
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