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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.
#4 of 15 in Hainish Cycle
1969 • 1,773 Readers • 267 pages • 4.1
2023 • 447 Readers • 449 pages • 3.7
Why this book?
Encapsulates to a degree that is almost uncanny what it was like to be a teenage girl in the 90s.
Why this book?
This whole series is cozy bangers, but this one is (imo) the coziest.
#1-5 of 7 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 932 Readers • 756 pages • 4.4
Why this book?
"Read HHGG at age 8" explains my entire sense of humor.
#3 of 3 in Gentleman Bastard
2010 • 691 Readers • 722 pages • 4.2
Why this book?
Honestly, if I'd written this, I'd probably be paralyzed by my inability to live up to my own standards.
1995 • 647 Readers • 536 pages • 4.1
Why this book?
I'll fight anyone who doesn't think Hackworth's sandwich sauce tangent isn't exquisite comedy
Why this book?
Aside from being a landmark of SF, Dune is a masterclass in characterization that doesn't rely on navel-gazing internal monologues.
#1 of 13 in Anne of Green Gables
1908 • 1,116 Readers • 326 pages • 4.3
Why this book?
An annual reread as a youth (in omnibus with Avonlea, Island, and House of Dreams)
2018 • 974 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2
Why this book?
Exquisite, unhurried, emotionally radiant.