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
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
4.43
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
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
4.02
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
4.4
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
4.35
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.25
Circe
Madeline Miller
4.25
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.44
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
4.44
The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.57
Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
4.72
The Stand
Stephen King
4.19
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
4.25
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
4.38
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
4.02
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
4.26
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
4.29
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
4.23
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
4.14
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
4.36
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.72
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Viktor Janiš (translator)
4.23
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
4.05
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
4.22
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
3.91
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
4.4
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
4.52
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
4.42
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.28
The Shining
Stephen King
4.16
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
3.94
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Alison Booth
3.64
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Giampaolo Cossato (Translator)
Sandro Sandrelli (Translator)
3.86
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
3.59
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
4.02
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Max Gladstone
3.89
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
4.09
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
4.06
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
4.09
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.1
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
4.33
Persuasion
Jane Austen
4.09
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
4.13
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
3.98
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
4.09
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
3.99
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
4.27
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
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.28
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
4.27
Watership Down
Richard Adams
4.1
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
3.84
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon
4.14
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.93
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Giulia Arborio Mella (Translator)
3.91
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
3.74
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang
4.12
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe