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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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
3.69
Demon in White
Christopher Ruocchio
4.68
The Wicked King
Holly Black
4.11
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
4.5
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
4.12
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
3.98
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
3.9
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
4.24
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
3.35
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
3.77
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Kathy Emery
Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.29
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Justin O'Brien (Translator)
4.07
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
3.69
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Ralph Manheim (Translator)
4.13
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder
Paulette Møller (Translator)
3.68
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
4.2
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins
3.69
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
4.02
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
4.02
We Are Legion
Dennis E. Taylor
4.16
The Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper
3.96
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Guy Gavriel Kay
4.13
Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
4.21
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
4.14
Just Kids
Patti Smith
4.17
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
3.9
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
4.88
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
4.32
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
4.05
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
3.49
John Dies at the End
David Wong
Jason Pargin
3.68
Loveless
Alice Oseman
4.17
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.16
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Isabel Florence Hapgood (Translator)
4.17
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
4.15
The Ruins of Ambrai
Melanie Rawn
4.33
Becoming
Michelle Obama
4.49
The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
4.02
Solaris: The Definitive Edition
Stanisław Lem
Bill Johnston (Translator)
3.79
Network Effect
Martha Wells
4.4
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
Adrian Nathan West (Translator)
3.97
The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
4.16
Wizard of Oz.
L. Frank Baum
Ella Okstad
W. w. Denslow
Michael Patrick Hearn
Dynos Design
Anne Hathaway
Tom Sinnickson
Germán Vives
Olimpia Zagnoli
WIlliam Wallace Denslow
Robert Ingpen
Rosa María Borràs Montané
Cristina Rodríguez Fischer
Rebecca Burns
W W Denslow
Fabien Clavel
Jean-Philippe Taboulot
Yvette Métral
Dyno Designs
Monique Luiken
Jeroen van Luiken-Bakker
Baum
L Frank Baum
jaime arbe
Séamus Ó Coileáin
Jose perez
monica alonso
Yenis Adelaira Ochoa
Marc Cornelis
Wirton Arvott
3.8
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
3.87
Uzumaki
Junji Ito
Ernesto Cellie (Translator)
Chieko Toba (Translator)
4.36
From hell
Alan Moore
4.26
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
4.03
The Autumn Republic
Brian McClellan
4.38
Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
Ursule Molinaro (Translator)
4.06
A Tale for the Time Being
4
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.53
The Queen of Nothing
Holly Black
4.09
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Donald Keene (Translator)
3.86
The Crimson Campaign
Brian McClellan
4.29
Lost Stars
Claudia Gray
4.28
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
4.31
Sweet Bean Paste
Durian Sukegawa
Alison Watts (Translator)
4.22
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
4.38
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
4.07
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré
4.03
The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett
3.75
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
4.22
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
4.08
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
3.95
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
4.01
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
3.97
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
4.21
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
4.02
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
4.06
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind
John E. Woods (Translator)
3.89
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
3.81
Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
Peter Kenny
4
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
3.87
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
4.19
Angels & Demons
Dan Brown
3.6
Jade City
Fonda Lee
4.1
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
4.16
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
4.06
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
3.18
Changes
Jim Butcher
4.53
Artificial Condition
Martha Wells
4.17
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
3.67
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
3.74
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
3.96
Witches Abroad
Terry Pratchett
4.08
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
4.05
Daughter of the Empire
Raymond E. Feist
Janny Wurts
4.17
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
3.64
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
3.9
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
3.78
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
Annelies Jorna (Translator)
Ineke Lenting (Translator)
3.71
At Swim, Two Boys
Jamie O'Neill
4.32
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
4.12
The Grace of Kings
Ken Liu
3.7
Deadhouse Gates
Steven Erikson
4.23
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Sam Ngo
3.85
Contact
Carl Sagan
4.11
Nimona
N.D. Stevenson
4.29
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
3.89
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