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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Middlemarch
George Eliot
4.15
Radio Silence
Alice Oseman
3.96
Three Kingdoms
Moss Roberts
0
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
3.96
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
3.83
The Devouring
Simon Holt
3.4
Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz
3.56
Poison Study
Maria V. Snyder
3.96
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
4.14
Dead Beat
Jim Butcher
4.27
Tales of the Madman Underground
John Barnes
4.5
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
3.55
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Bill Watterson
4.75
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin
3.72
The Queen's Rising
Rebecca Ross
3.73
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
4.04
Honestly Ben
Bill Konigsberg
4.14
The Letter for the King
Tonke Dragt
Laura Watkinson (Translator)
4.63
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
3.95
The Thin Executioner
Darren Shan
3
Possession
A.S. Byatt
4.01
Foreigner
C. J. Cherryh
3.68
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
3.92
Palace Beautiful
Sarah Deford Williams
5
Feed
M.T. Anderson
3.61
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
4.04
The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach
4.08
The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
3.89
Past forgiving
Gloria D. Miklowitz
3.25
Gravity
Tess Gerritsen
3.56
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Jon Scieszka
3.91
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
4.52
Wolf By Wolf
Ryan Graudin
3.93
Blood Song
Anthony Ryan
4.31
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
4.25
The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
3.75
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
3.95
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm
3.29
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.28
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
3.74
Phantastes
George MacDonald
3.86
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
4.5
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
3.76
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4.34
Grass
Sheri S. Tepper
3.89
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
3.35
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
3.98
Excession
Iain M. Banks
4.03
Through the Woods
Emily Carroll
4.01
Hitman
Bret Hart
3.33
The Birth House
Ami McKay
4
Three Men In A Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
3.59
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
3.81
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
3.86
Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
3.59
Pet
Akwaeke Emezi
4.21
Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris
3.48
Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss
4.21
First Term at Malory Towers.
Enid Blyton
3.8
The Shadow Rising
Robert Jordan
4.23
Heartstopper: Volume One
Alice Oseman
4.42
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
4.02
Daughter of the Empire
Raymond E. Feist
Janny Wurts
4.2
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
4.25
de Profundis
Oscar Wilde
Luana Schidu (translator)
4.16
All About Love
bell hooks
3.9
The Running Man
Stephen King
3.7
Cities in Flight
James Blish
4
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
4.1
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
4.33
Master of the Five Magics
Lyndon Hardy
3.43
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Brian Hooker (Translator)
Walter Hampden
4.05
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck
3.79
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
4.3
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
3.67
Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima
Meredith Weatherby (Translator)
3.99
Faster! Faster!
Leslie Patricelli
5
I Am Not A Serial Killer
Dan Wells
3.68
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
4.33
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
4.15
The Wanderer
Sharon Creech
4.25
Linger
Maggie Stiefvater
3.78
A Knight of the Word
Terry Brooks
3.5
Stolen
Lucy Christopher
3.93
Lightning
Dean Koontz
3.8
Almost Heaven
Judith McNaught
4
Slave to Sensation
Nalini Singh
3.82
Contact
Carl Sagan
4.08
We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
3.87
The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov
4.13
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Scott Lynch
4.18
Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
3.37
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity