What are your favorite books of all time?Answer

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.

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

2002 • 27 Readers • 788 pages 4.4

Why this book?

Russian culture and history are a bit part of me. This book feels like it was written just for me.

War and Peace

#1 of 1 in Война и мир (Ново луксозно издание в два тома)

War and Peace
ByLeo Tolstoy

190 • 1,480 Readers • 838 pages 4.1

Why this book?

I read this in Russian for my final year undergraduate dissertation in 1998, comparing the novel with the 1968 movie adaptation by Sergei Bondarchuk.

The First Chronicles Of Prydain

#1-3 of 6 in The Chronicles of Prydain

1986 • 314 Readers • 472 pages 3.8

Why this book?

It was the beginning of my love of fantasy.

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
ByJohn Steinbeck

1939 • 1,841 Readers • 496 pages 3.9

A Prayer For Owen Meany

1989 • 541 Readers • 720 pages 4.1

Why this book?

It entertained me, enthralled me and made me cry.