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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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
3.82
The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson
4.32
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
4.24
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
3.98
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
4.29
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
4.26
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
3.91
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
4.02
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
3.69
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
4.5
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
3.81
The Humans
Matt Haig
3.86
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Ralph Manheim (Translator)
4.13
Blindness
José Saramago
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
4
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
3.92
Demon in White
Christopher Ruocchio
4.68
The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne
4.55
Last Argument of Kings
Joe Abercrombie
4.29
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder
Paulette Møller (Translator)
3.68
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
3.35
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind
John E. Woods (Translator)
3.91
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
4.34
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
4.08
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Guy Gavriel Kay
4.13
House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas
4.27
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
4.12
Jade City
Fonda Lee
4.1
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
3.85
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
4.03
The Ballad of Never After
Stephanie Garber
4.33
The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett
3.75
Uzumaki
Junji Ito
Ernesto Cellie (Translator)
Chieko Toba (Translator)
4.36
Witches Abroad
Terry Pratchett
4.08
If I Stay
Gayle Forman
3.58
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
4.16
Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood
4.05
City of Bones
Cassandra Clare
3.62
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
Annelies Jorna (Translator)
Ineke Lenting (Translator)
3.71
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
4.06
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
4.21
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Isabel Florence Hapgood (Translator)
4.17
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
4.01
The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
4.11
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré
4.03
Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor
4.28
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