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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Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
3.78
The Bone Collector
Jeffery Deaver
3.98
Bossypants
Tina Fey
3.78
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
4.32
Lamb
Christopher Moore
4.05
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson
4.9
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
4.2
The Ropemaker
Peter Dickinson
3.75
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
3.61
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Charles Dickens
4
Elidor
Alan Garner
4
Wind, Sand And Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4.28
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
2.89
On Basilisk Station
David Weber
3.91
Relic
Douglas Preston
Lincoln Child
3.92
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
4.19
The Magus
John Fowles
3.83
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
3.55
Raiders from the Sea
Lois Walfrid Johnson
5
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
3.56
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
3.81
The Jesus I never knew
Philip Yancey
4.5
Magic Study
Maria V. Snyder
3.81
Dhampir
Barb Hendee
J.C. Hendee
Kateřina Niklová (Translator)
4
Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman
3.51
Openly Straight
Bill Konigsberg
3.45
Time Enough for Drums
Ann Rinaldi
4
Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
4.18
The Firebugs: A Morality Without a Moral, A Play
Max Frisch
Michael Bullock (Translator)
3.13
The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
3.15
1776
David McCullough
4.08
The Rain Before it Falls
Jonathan Coe
3.67
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
4.16
Sarum
Edward Rutherfurd
4.21
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini
3.91
O Alienista
Machado de Assis
3.78
What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell
3.75
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
4.26
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
3.96
Dragon Prince
Melanie Rawn
3.33
City of Thieves
David Benioff
4.28
The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.47
Slob
Ellen Potter
5
Bhagavad Gita
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
4.67
Master And Commander
Patrick O'Brian
3.87
The pigman
Paul Zindel
3.64
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
3.53
The Tsar of Love and Techno
Anthony Marra
4.54
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
3.78
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Chuck Klosterman
3.72
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Astrid Lindgren
4.08
Mistress of the Empire
Raymond E. Feist
Janny Wurts
4.35
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
Annie Barrows
4.11
Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner
4.55
Inheritance
Christopher Paolini
3.84
The Curse of the Gloamglozer: First Book of Quint
Paul Stewart
Chris Riddell
4.17
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
3.72
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
3.76
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
3.92
The Dead Fathers Club
Matt Haig
3.44
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted #1)
Gail Carson Levine
3.98
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
3.93
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
3.85
White Fang
Jack London
3.8
The Discipline of Grace
Jerry Bridges
4.5
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
3.62
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Julie Berry
3.42
The Naked Now
Richard Rohr
4.2
Eden
Hiroki Endo
3.5
Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
4
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
4.46
The Mammoth Hunters
Jean M. Auel
3.52
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
Jack Thorne
J. K. Rowling
3.05
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
4.13
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
3.79
Anne's House of Dreams
L.M. Montgomery
4.02
The Fairy Godmother
Mercedes Lackey
4.04
The Duke and I
Julia Quinn
3.27
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
4.08
The Little House Treasury
Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.19
Stray.
A.N. Wilson
5
The Illearth War
Stephen R. Donaldson
4
The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire
Isaac Asimov
4.17
The Turn Of The Screw
Henry James
3.28
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Bernard Guilbert Guerney (Translator)
3.82
Till We Have Faces:
C. S. Lewis
4.15
City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams
3.76
Shade's Children
Garth Nix
3.47
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins