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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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.66
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Hajime Isayama
Sheldon Drzka (Translator)
4.15
Promise of Blood
Brian McClellan
4.08
Left Behind
Tim LaHaye
Jerry B. Jenkins
3.23
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind
John E. Woods (Translator)
3.89
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.33
Lost Stars
Claudia Gray
4.3
Of War and Ruin
Ryan Cahill
4.67
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
3.87
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.24
Loveless
Alice Oseman
4.13
Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz
4.01
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Stanley Corngold (Translator)
3.82
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.17
The Thief
Megan Whalen Turner
3.66
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel
3.87
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
3.89
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
3.81
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
3.72
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
4
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
4.31
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Fernando Pessoa
Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
4.31
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
4.08
The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker
3.91
The Waste Lands
Stephen King
4.19
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor
4.05
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
3.93
The Trial
Franz Kafka
4.04
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
4.29
The Witches
Roald Dahl
3.98
Cibola Burn
James S. A. Corey
4.11
Boy
Roald Dahl
3.98
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Douglas J. Weatherford (translator)
3.88
The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden
4.1
The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom
3.62
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
3.88
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.17
The Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan
4.17
Hijab Butch Blues
Lamya H
4.54
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
3.71
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.72
The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar And Six More
Roald Dahl
Quentin Blake
4.14
The Fiancée Farce
Alexandria Bellefleur
3.95
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
4.3
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
Andrew Hurley (Translator)
4.79
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi
Curt Gentry
4.08
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
4.18
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
3.68
Fevre Dream
George R.R. Martin
3.7
Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer
3.57
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell
4.2
Bunny
Mona Awad
3.6
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
4.19
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
4.42
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
3.5
Endymion
Dan Simmons
4.15
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.7
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher
3.88
Jumper
Steven Gould
3.69
Abaddon's Gate
James S. A. Corey
4.19
Storm Front
Jim Butcher
3.73
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
Kimberly Lemming
3.75
Dragon Rider
Taran Matharu
3.59
Swimming in the Dark
Tomasz Jedrowski
4.37
Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Ebba Segerberg (Translator)
3.93
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
4.48
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection
J. K. Rowling
4.73
Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk
3.49
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration