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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Anathem
Neal Stephenson
4.22
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
3.91
Jade City
Fonda Lee
4.07
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
4.07
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
4.07
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
4.13
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
4.42
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
4.26
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
3.97
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
4.26
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan
4.16
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
4.07
The One
John Marrs
4.12
A Memory of Light
Brandon Sanderson
Robert Jordan
4.57
Beartown
Fredrik Backman
4.33
Insurgent
Veronica Roth
3.65
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
3.94
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Petra Mrduljaš (Translator)
3.9
Crown of Midnight
Sarah J. Maas
4.28
The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne
4.52
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
3.54
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Ralph Manheim (Translator)
4.08
Wonder
R.J. Palacio
4.09
The Crimson Campaign
Brian McClellan
4.27
The Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper
4
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
4.31
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.69
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
4.18
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.18
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
3.59
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
3.99
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Donald Keene (Translator)
3.87
In the absence of men
Philippe Besson
4.4
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
4.2
Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood
4
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa
Philip Gabriel (Translator)
4.37
House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas
4.31
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
T. Kingfisher
4.14
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
John Rutherford (Translator)
3.82
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
Ken Liu
3.71
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
4.05
The Autumn Republic
Brian McClellan
4.39
Blindness
José Saramago
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
4.03
Stoner
John Williams
4.49
Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
4.21
Uzumaki
Junji Ito
Yuji Oniki (Translator)
4.37
Normal People
Sally Rooney
3.55
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Neil Smith (Translator)
4.25
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.1
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
3.79
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
3.89
Redwall
Brian Jacques
4.09
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
3.95
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
4.09
The Host
Stephenie Meyer
3.6
Deadhouse Gates
Steven Erikson
4.2
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Michael Henry Heim (Translator)
3.81
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.57
The World According to Garp
John Irving
4.04
The Long Walk
Stephen King
3.83
Swordheart
T. Kingfisher
3.91
We Are Legion
Dennis E. Taylor
4.14
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
4.34
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
3.66
Sweet Bean Paste
Durian Sukegawa
Alison Watts (Translator)
4.18
Last Argument of Kings
Joe Abercrombie
4.31
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
4.31
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Brandon Sanderson
4.48
Karlík a továrna na čokoládu
Roald Dahl
Jaroslav Kořán (Translator)
4.05
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
4.21
Howling Dark
Christopher Ruocchio
4.49
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
3.71
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
4.25
Solaris
Stanisław Lem
Bill Johnston (Translator)
3.72
Beach Read
Emily Henry
3.92
Novecento. Un monologo
Alessandro Baricco
4.36
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
4.02
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
4.2
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy