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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Silver Lining
Maggie Osborne
4
Ash
Malinda Lo
3.74
Totto-chan
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Dorothy Britton (Translator)
4.88
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
3.89
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
4.09
Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
3.82
Last Light
Alex Scarrow
5
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
3.76
A Face Like Glass
Frances Hardinge
4.22
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
4.27
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
3.69
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
4.26
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Timothy J. Keller
Kathy Keller
4.38
The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan
3.98
The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
4.17
Undeniable
Bill Nye
4
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
Aylmer Maude (Translator)
رضی هیرمند (Translator)
Ευγενία Ζήκου (Translator)
4.16
Around the world in eighty days
Jules Verne
Jacqueline Rogers (Translator)
3.63
Anthem
Ayn Rand
3.51
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
4.01
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
3.77
Queen of Shadows
Sarah J. Maas
4.48
Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park
3.67
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Robert A. Heinlein
3.42
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson
4.33
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
3.61
Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough
3.66
A Land Remembered
Patrick D. Smith
5
Hollowland
Amanda Hocking
3.17
Drugie berega
Vladimir Nabokov
3.81
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo
3.7
The Testing
Joelle Charbonneau
3.76
The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King
4.14
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
3.95
A Prisoner of Birth
Jeffrey Archer
4.28
The Changeover
Margaret Mahy
3.67
Angels' Blood
Nalini Singh
3.75
Foucault's Pendulum
William Weaver (Translator)
Umberto Eco
3.93
Find Me
Romily Bernard
3.83
The Magic Faraway Tree
Enid Blyton
4.33
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Joachim Neugroschel
3.8
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
4.11
The Confessor
Daniel Silva
4.06
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
4.1
The Mist
Stephen King
3.71
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
3.76
Angel Fire East
Terry Brooks
3.35
King Rat: The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga
James Clavell
4.21
Bitter Greens
Kate Forsyth
3.78
Morgawr
Terry Brooks
3.53
Hostage to Pleasure
Nalini Singh
4.21
Grave Peril
Jim Butcher
3.85
Enola Holmes the Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
Nancy Springer
3.6
Toll the Hounds
Steven Erikson
4.53
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
4.17
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher W. Alexander
Sara Ishikawa
Murray Silverstein
Max Jacobson
Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
Shlomo Angel
4.67
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
4.62
A Madness of Angels
Kate Griffin
3.63
Scythe
Neal Shusterman
4.15
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
4.35
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay
4.26
Setting free the bears
John Irving
3.6
The Dramatic Universe
Bennett, John G.
5
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
3.86
Leadership
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.06
The Cask of Amontillado - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe
4.01
The Upaninṣads
Anonymous
Valerie J. Roebuck (Translator)
4.5
Prodigy
Marie Lu
4.01
Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen
3.94
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
3.78
When My Name Was Keoko
Linda Sue Park
3.67
On Basilisk Station
David Weber
3.91
S.
Doug Dorst
3.97
A Gathering of Shadows
4.05
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
3.55
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Charles Dickens
4
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Daniel Coyle
4.21
Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
Anthony de Mello
3.85
The Magus
John Fowles
3.83
What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell
3.75
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