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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Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
4.19
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
3.93
Starsight
Brandon Sanderson
4.24
Three Kingdoms
Moss Roberts
0
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Kathy Emery
Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.31
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
4.14
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
3.73
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett
4.13
Alone With You in the Ether
Olivie Blake
3.87
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-Reum
Shanna Tan (Translator)
4.03
Sadie
Courtney Summers
4.03
Jade War
Fonda Lee
4.35
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Willa Muir (Translator)
Edwin Muir (Translator)
4.04
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Hajime Isayama
Sheldon Drzka (Translator)
4.16
Half a Soul
Olivia Atwater
4.12
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
4.51
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
4.17
Empire of the Damned
Jay Kristoff
4.59
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
4.06
The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston
4.22
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
4.03
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas
4.17
Middlemarch
George Eliot
4.15
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell
4.18
Witches Abroad
Terry Pratchett
4.04
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Jessica Townsend
4.4
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
3.92
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.73
The Thief
Megan Whalen Turner
3.74
Un mundo feliz
Aldous Huxley
Rafael Rutiaga (Translator)
3.63
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
4.5
A Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway
3.65
The White Dragon
Anne McCaffrey
3.83
Invisible man
Ralph Ellison
3.77
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
3.93
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
3.65
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
3.94
A Dowry of Blood
S.T. Gibson
4.11
Use Of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
4.04
Changes
Jim Butcher
4.53
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
3.54
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare
3.62
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
4.49
Lost Stars
Claudia Gray
4.31
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
3.95
Emily of New Moon
L.M. Montgomery
3.94
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
4.19
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
4.1
Radiance
Grace Draven
3.86
Emma
Jane Austen
Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)
3.94
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
4.43
The Wicked King
Holly Black
4.15
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
4.83
Fool's Assassin
Robin Hobb
4.47
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
3.92
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
3.86
Unsouled
Will Wight
3.78
Espedair Street
Iain Banks
4.07
The Iliad
Homer
Alexander Pope (Translator)
4
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
3.87
Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey
4.45
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Stephanie Garber
3.9
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
3.99
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
3.7
Fool's Quest
Robin Hobb
4.55
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
4.03
Wizard And Glass
Stephen King
4.09
The War of Two Queens
Jennifer L. Armentrout
3.78
Divergent
Veronica Roth
3.71
The Wisdom of Crowds
Joe Abercrombie
4.5
The Overstory
Richard Powers
4.06
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
3.85
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.72
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
John Sturrock (Translator)
Anthony Kerringan (Translator)
4.25
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Roald Dahl
3.9
Frankenstein
Marry Shelley
3.25
Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden
3.6
Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
Ursule Molinaro (Translator)
4.07
Quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Susan Cain
Carlo Prosperi (Translator)
4.01
The Basic Eight
Daniel Handler
4.08
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
3.84
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
3.91
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
4.13
Pet Sematary
Stephen King
3.96
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
4
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
4.27
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
3.85
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
4
The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden
4.12
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
4.4
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
3.65
Revival
Stephen King
3.73
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
4.05
Berserk Volume 1
Kentaro Miura
4.3
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
3.94
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Anthony Bonner (Translator)
Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)
3.53
Life Ceremony
Sayaka Murata
Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
3.69
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.93
Left Behind
Tim LaHaye
Jerry B. Jenkins
3.22
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men