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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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
4.11
Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
4.09
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
3.89
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.09
If We Were Villains
M.L. Rio
3.92
Empire of Storms
Sarah J. Maas
4.41
Normal People
Sally Rooney
3.63
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
3.91
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
4.11
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
3.95
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
4.05
Royal Assassin
Robin Hobb
4.25
A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas
4.2
Beach Read
Emily Henry
3.94
Clockwork Princess
Cassandra Clare
4.38
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
4.25
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
3.87
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
4.31
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
4.11
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
3.99
We Are Legion
Dennis E. Taylor
4.18
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Kathy Emery
Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.27
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
3.92
Middlemarch
George Eliot
4.21
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder
Paulette Møller (Translator)
3.68
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
3.93
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
4.37
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Ken Liu (Translator)
4.39
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.92
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
4.03
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
3.87
A Memory of Light
Brandon Sanderson
Robert Jordan
4.6
The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson
4.33
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
4.29
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
3.68
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
Ros Schwartz (Translator)
4.29
Demon in White
Christopher Ruocchio
4.71
Novecento. Un monologo
Alessandro Baricco
4.42
Heartstopper: Volume One
Alice Oseman
4.39
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
3.75
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
4.03
The Host
Stephenie Meyer
3.6
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
4.31
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
3.96
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
4.03
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
3.94
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
4.1
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
4.22
Emma
Jane Austen
Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)
3.95
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
4.5
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
4
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
4.18
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
4.25
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas
4.18
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
3.99
Memories of Ice
Steven Erikson
4.51
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
3.99
Empire of Silence
Christopher Ruocchio
4.02
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
3.98
Blindness
José Saramago
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
3.98
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
4.27
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.21
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
3.87
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
4.11
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
3.69
Last Argument of Kings
Joe Abercrombie
4.29
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Donald Keene (Translator)
3.88
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
4
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
4.36
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream