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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A Natural History of Dragons
Marie Brennan
3.71
Linger
Maggie Stiefvater
3.77
The Radleys
Matt Haig
3.52
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sánchez
3.77
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
3.95
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
Diana Gabaldon
3.83
Wildwood Dancing
Juliet Marillier
4.07
The Wanderer
Sharon Creech
4.25
Fantasyland
Kurt Andersen
4.5
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
3.8
The Gypsy Morph
Terry Brooks
3.33
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
India Holton
3.64
The Lake
Banana Yoshimoto
Michael Emmerich (Translator)
3.1
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 3
David Lewis
David Lewis (Translator)
Toren Smith (Translator)
Kaori Inoue (Translator)
Joe Yamazaki (Translator)
4.67
Stolen
Lucy Christopher
3.82
Timeline
Michael Crichton
3.63
The Aeneid
Virgil
Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)
3.73
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy
3.84
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
3.62
Every Man Dies Alone
Hans Fallada
Michael Hofmann (Translator)
4.6
That Hideous Strength
C. S. Lewis
3.73
Timekeeper
Tara Sim
3.73
Paper Towns
John Green
3.54
Sky Without Stars
Jessica Brody
Joanne Rendell
4
The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin
3.85
Queen of Air and Darkness
Cassandra Clare
4.1
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
4.52
The Painted Man
Peter V. Brett
4.13
The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov
4.2
Near the Bone
Christina Henry
3.68
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
3.81
Little Star
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Marlaine Delargy (Translator)
3
The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
Stephen King
4.27
The War of Two Queens
Jennifer L. Armentrout
3.79
Voyager
Diana Gabaldon
4.08
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter
3.99
Speaking Bones
Ken Liu
4.62
Slave to Sensation
Nalini Singh
3.68
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
3.99
Descent
Tim Johnston
3.55
The Power of Six
Pittacus Lore
3.78
Fireborne
Rosaria Munda
4.26
We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
3.88
Orphan X
Gregg Hurwitz
Erik de Vries (Translator)
3.97
Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
3.45
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
4
Grave Mercy
Robin LaFevers
3.51
Bearers of the Black Staff
Terry Brooks
3.45
The Great Book of Amber
Roger Zelazny
4.04
Good to Great
James C. Collins
3.95
The Peace War
Vernor Vinge
3.72
From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout
4
Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff
4.44
The Dream Thieves
Maggie Stiefvater
4.14
A Crown of Swords
Robert Jordan
3.9
Searching for God Knows What
Donald Miller
4.19
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
3.66
Blood Music
Greg Bear
3.98
Blindsight
Peter Watts
3.82
Small Favor
Jim Butcher
4.26
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
3.7
Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott's Precious Little Life
4.16
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
3.9
The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo
3.78
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.86
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
4.2
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
4.14
The Silver Metal Lover
Tanith Lee
4
The Power of Positive Thinking
Norman Vincent Peale
3.35
Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
4.07
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
5
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
4.35
Up the Down Staircase
Bel Kaufman
4.5
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
3.78
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
4.12
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Beverly Cleary
4.06
Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
3.43
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
3.54
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
3.38
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller
4.08
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
3.42
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
3.45
The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket
3.85
Drums of Autumn
Diana Gabaldon
4.03
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.84
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
4.32
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Stacy Schiff
3.12
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
4.48
Boy's Life
Robert R. McCammon
4.41
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
3.62
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim
Kevin Behr
George Spafford
4.17
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews
3.59
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams
3.81
Winter
Marissa Meyer
4.22
The Drowned Cities
Paolo Bacigalupi
3.82
John Adams
David McCullough
4.35
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity