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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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.55
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.29
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
1984
George Orwell
4.2
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
4.43
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
4.18
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.3
The Martian
Andy Weir
4.41
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling
4.29
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
4.44
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
4.1
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
4.26
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.39
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
4.04
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
4.26
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
4.03
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
3.99
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
4.4
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
4.15
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
4.44
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.27
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
3.94
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.45
The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.58
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
4.34
Circe
Madeline Miller
4.25
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
4.39
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
4.24
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Viktor Janiš (translator)
4.25
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
3.62
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
4.28
Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
4.71
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
4.38
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
4.3
The Stand
Stephen King
4.16
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)
4.06
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.74
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
4.35
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
4.1
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
4.04
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Giampaolo Cossato (Translator)
Sandro Sandrelli (Translator)
3.87
Persuasion
Jane Austen
4.09
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.09
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
4.29
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.29
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4.2
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.92
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
4.38
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
3.88
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
4.03
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
4.43
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
4.2
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
3.96
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Max Gladstone
3.88
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
4.04
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
3.85
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.26
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
4.34
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
4.48
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
3.65
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
4.1
A Little Life
4.13
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
4.04
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4.17
The Shining
Stephen King
4.14
Watership Down
Richard Adams
4.1
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
4.11
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
4.16
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
3.75
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Stephen King
4.35
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution