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