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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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.57
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.28
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
4.43
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
1984
George Orwell
4.19
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling
4.29
The Martian
Andy Weir
4.4
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.31
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
4.46
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
4.19
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
4.27
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
4.08
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.38
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
4.01
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
4.39
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
3.99
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
4.4
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
4.02
Circe
Madeline Miller
4.25
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
4.35
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.25
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.44
The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.57
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
4.44
The Stand
Stephen King
4.19
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
4.38
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
4.02
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
4.25
Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
4.72
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
4.26
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
4.23
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
4.14
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
4.29
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
4.36
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Viktor Janiš (translator)
4.23
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
4.05
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
3.91
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.72
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
4.22
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
4.42
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.28
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
4.4
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
4.52
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
4.06
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
4.09
The Shining
Stephen King
4.16
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
3.59
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Giampaolo Cossato (Translator)
Sandro Sandrelli (Translator)
3.86
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Max Gladstone
3.89
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Alison Booth
3.64
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
4.02
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
3.94
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
4.09
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
4.13
Persuasion
Jane Austen
4.09
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
3.98
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.1
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
4.33
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.28
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
4.3
11/22/63
Stephen King
4.36
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling
4.17
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
4.27
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
4.09
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
3.99
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4.15
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
4.05
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.93
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon
4.14
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
4.1
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
3.84
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
4.27
Watership Down
Richard Adams
4.1
A Little Life
4.15
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
4
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
3.74
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Giulia Arborio Mella (Translator)
3.91
Recursion
Blake Crouch
4.2
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang
4.12
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.9
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Michael Burgan
3.83
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
William Weaver (Translator)
3.98
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
3.96
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
3.91
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
4.05
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
4.23
Carry On
Rainbow Rowell
4.05
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
4.07
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.07
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
4.06
Neverwhere
4.16
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
3.63
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
4.54
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
4.26
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass