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
4.54
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.29
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
4.25
1984
George Orwell
4.2
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
4.61
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
4.44
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
4.17
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.3
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling
4.29
The Martian
Andy Weir
4.41
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
4.44
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
4.1
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
4.25
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.39
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
4.25
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
4.05
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling
4.43
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
4
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
4.39
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
4.15
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
3.94
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.45
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
4.01
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
4.24
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.27
The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.58
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
4.38
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
4.32
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
4.29
Circe
Madeline Miller
4.25
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
4.37
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
4.28
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
4.38
Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
4.71
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Viktor Janiš (translator)
4.24
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.29
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.08
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.74
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
4.43
The Stand
Stephen King
4.16
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
4.09
Persuasion
Jane Austen
4.1
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
4.04
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
3.97
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
3.62
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
4.28
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
4.03
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
4.04
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
4.38
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)
4.08
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
4.09
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
3.85
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
4.13
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.92
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
4.21
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
3.9
A Little Life
4.16
11/22/63
Stephen King
4.34
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
4.5
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
4.36
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Giampaolo Cossato (Translator)
Sandro Sandrelli (Translator)
3.86
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4.21
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.26
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Max Gladstone
3.87
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
4.04
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4.17
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling
4.18
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
4.24
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
3.75
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
4.1
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
3.64
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
3.79
Watership Down
Richard Adams
4.1
The Shining
Stephen King
4.13
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