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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Wind, Sand And Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4.28
Homeland
R. A. Salvatore
3.95
The setting sun
Osamu Dazai
4.09
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
4.28
Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman
3.51
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
2.89
Raiders from the Sea
Lois Walfrid Johnson
5
The lantern bearers
Rosemary Sutcliff
4.6
The Firebugs: A Morality Without a Moral, A Play
Max Frisch
Michael Bullock (Translator)
3.13
Sharpe's Rifles
Bernard Cornwell
4.14
The Jesus I never knew
Philip Yancey
4.5
Palimpsest
Catherynne M. Valente
3.63
Magic Study
Maria V. Snyder
3.81
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
4.19
Sarum
Edward Rutherfurd
4.21
Dragon Prince
Melanie Rawn
3.33
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini
3.92
Dhampir
Barb Hendee
J.C. Hendee
Kateřina Niklová (Translator)
4
Openly Straight
Bill Konigsberg
3.45
Time Enough for Drums
Ann Rinaldi
4
Bartleby
Herman Melville
3.9
The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.43
Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
4.18
The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
3.15
The Rain Before it Falls
Jonathan Coe
3.67
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
4.18
Master And Commander
Patrick O'Brian
3.87
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
4.26
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
3.96
City of Thieves
David Benioff
4.28
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Astrid Lindgren
4.08
Slob
Ellen Potter
5
Bhagavad Gita
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
4.67
The Curse of the Gloamglozer: First Book of Quint
Paul Stewart
Chris Riddell
4.17
The Dead Fathers Club
Matt Haig
3.44
The pigman
Paul Zindel
3.64
O Alienista
Machado de Assis
3.78
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
3.53
The Tsar of Love and Techno
Anthony Marra
4.54
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
3.92
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
3.78
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Chuck Klosterman
3.72
The Discipline of Grace
Jerry Bridges
4.5
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
3.74
Mistress of the Empire
Raymond E. Feist
Janny Wurts
4.35
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
Annie Barrows
4.12
Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner
4.55
Inheritance
Christopher Paolini
3.85
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Julie Berry
3.42
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
3.86
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
3.74
Mindset:The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
3.92
Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted #1)
Gail Carson Levine
3.97
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
4.13
White Fang
Jack London
3.8
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
3.59
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
3.97
The Little House Treasury
Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.19
The Naked Now
Richard Rohr
4.2
Eden
Hiroki Endo
3.5
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
4.46
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
Jack Thorne
J. K. Rowling
3.05
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Bernard Guilbert Guerney (Translator)
3.85
The Fairy Godmother
Mercedes Lackey
4.04
The Book of the Dun Cow
Walter Wangerin Jr.
4.22
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
3.79
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
4.08
Stray.
A.N. Wilson
5
Faro's daughter.
Georgette Heyer
4.1
The Illearth War
Stephen R. Donaldson
4
The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire
Isaac Asimov
4.17
Till We Have Faces:
C. S. Lewis
4.15
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
3.29
City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams
3.8
The Fight
Norman Mailer
4
Supernova
Marissa Meyer
4.1
Anne's House of Dreams
L.M. Montgomery
4.02
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
3.6
The Silver Kiss
Annette Curtis Klause
3
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
3.69
The Path of Daggers
Robert Jordan
3.72
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins