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 Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
3.83
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
4.14
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Patricia Ingham
Mark Oxford
3.87
The Assassin's Blade
Sarah J. Maas
4.04
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
3.89
Revival
Stephen King
3.66
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
3.96
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
4.49
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.7
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.55
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Anthony Bonner (Translator)
Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)
3.51
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
3.48
The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
4.11
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Stanley Corngold (Translator)
3.82
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor
4.05
Three Men In A Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
3.74
Witches Abroad
Terry Pratchett
4.07
Scarlet
Marissa Meyer
4.04
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.72
The Shadow Rising
Robert Jordan
4.24
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
3.64
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
3.84
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
3.87
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.24
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.17
The Waste Lands
Stephen King
4.19
The Iliad
Homer
Alexander Pope (Translator)
4.03
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
3.56
Lord of Chaos
Robert Jordan
4.03
Look to Windward
Iain M. Banks
4.11
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
4.15
Misery
Stephen King
4.11
Lightning
Dean Koontz
3.83
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Sam Ngo
3.82
Contact
Carl Sagan
4.09
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4.4
Golden Son
Pierce Brown
4.43
The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar And Six More
Roald Dahl
Quentin Blake
4.14
Mort
Terry Pratchett
4.07
Divergent
Veronica Roth
3.72
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.17
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Isabel Florence Hapgood (Translator)
4.19
The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan
4.2
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
Lost Souls
Poppy Z. Brite
3.4
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
4.24
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
3.88
Renegades
Marissa Meyer
4.2
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
4.06
Pet Sematary
Stephen King
3.94
Fool's Fate
Robin Hobb
4.51
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
3.72
Emily of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery
4.08
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
3.89
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
4.25
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
3.88
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
4.02
Winnie The Pooh
A.A. Milne
4.38
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
3.89
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
4.48
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.66
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
3.69
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
4.01
Heir to the Empire
Timothy Zahn
4.07
The Fires of Heaven
Robert Jordan
4.09
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
3.9
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