What are your favorite books of all time?

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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Vote	Details	Readers Count
	Before They Are Hanged Joe Abercrombie	598 reads
	No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez J.S. Bernstein (Translator)	60 reads
	야화첩 3 Byeonduck 변덕	1 read
	The Ritual Shantel Tessier	71 reads
	Butterfly in Amber Camilla Monk	3 reads
	Ninth House Leigh Bardugo	636 reads
	A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett	184 reads
	Dead Witch Walking Kim Harrison	14 reads
	Riddley Walker Russell Hoban	14 reads
	De l'inconvénient d'être né Emil M. Cioran	3 reads
	Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente	23 reads
	The Deep Beyond: Cuckoo's Egg / Serpent's Reach C. J. Cherryh	1 read
	The Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons	18 reads
	Three Day Road Joseph Boyden	8 reads
	Elevation Stephen King	217 reads
	Černobílý svět Kathryn Stockett Jana Kordíková (Translator)	1 read
	Of Blood and Fire Ryan Cahill	108 reads
	The Shadows Alex North	63 reads
	We Are The Dead Mike Shackle	29 reads
	The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed Ash Ali Hasan Kubba	12 reads
	Last Chance to See Mark Carwardine Douglas Adams	61 reads
	Midnight Robber Nalo Hopkinson	13 reads
	The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series	6 reads
	Yours Truly Abby Jimenez	203 reads
	Gin Tama Hideaki Sorachi	5 reads
	Konklave Robert Harris Wolfgang Müller (Translator)	1 read
	Divergence Divergence TurtleMe	12 reads
	The Running Hare John Lewis-Stempel	4 reads
	The Wickwire Watch Jacquelyn Hagen	8 reads
	The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom	281 reads
	The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach	86 reads
	Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin	112 reads
	The Year of the Whale The Year of the Whale Victor B. Scheffler	1 read
	The Institute Stephen King	366 reads
	Dark Rise C.S. Pacat	72 reads
	The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Sangu Mandanna	359 reads
	She Gets the Girl Rachael Lippincott Alyson Derrick	66 reads
	The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle	99 reads
	The Sword of Kaigen M.L. Wang	243 reads
	Master And Commander Patrick O'Brian	81 reads
	The Path of Loneliness The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God Elisabeth Elliot	2 reads
	The Fault in Our Stars John Green	1,532 reads
	Women, Race & Class Angela Y. Davis	32 reads
	A Peregrinação do Rapaz Sem Cor Haruki Murakami	4 reads
	The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck	114 reads
	Wind, Sand And Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	22 reads
	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	13 reads
	The Anything Box Zenna Henderson	2 reads
	Così in terra Davide Enia	1 read
	A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Charles Dickens	18 reads
	The Hunger of the Gods John Gwynne	130 reads
	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon	27 reads
	Deberías hablar con alguien: Una psicóloga, su terapeuta y un viaje revelador por el alma humana Victoria Simó (Translator) Lori Gottlieb	2 reads
	The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemmingway	0 reads
	Cain's Jawbone E. Powys Mathers	12 reads
	The Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum	22 reads
	Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko	26 reads
	Digital Fortress Dan Brown	446 reads
	Against the Loveless World Susan Abulhawa	26 reads
	Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume 1 Bob Dylan	1 read
	Our Tragic Universe Scarlett Thomas	13 reads
	Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-century Paris comtesse Cäleste Vänard de Chabrillan	0 reads
	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor	84 reads
	The Dragon Reborn Robert Jordan	662 reads
	Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad	563 reads
	Mr. Darcy's Enchantment Mr. Darcy's Enchantment: A Pride & Prejudice Variation Abigail Reynolds	2 reads
	Drums of Autumn Diana Gabaldon	121 reads
	Les moissons funèbres Jesmyn Ward Frédérique Pressmann (Translator)	1 read
	Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Inio Asano	3 reads
	The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel	258 reads
	Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth Robert Louis Stevenson N. C. Wyeth	1 read
	Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine Ed Macy	1 read
	Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 Microsoft Flight Simulator 98: Unauthorized Game Secrets Douglas Kiang	1 read
	Wolves of the Calla Stephen King	325 reads
	Medvěd a slavík Katherine Arden Kateřina Cardová (Translator)	1 read
	Kiss an Angel Susan Elizabeth Phillips	26 reads
	The Birth House Ami McKay	17 reads
	The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Junauda Petrus	14 reads
	The Once and Future King T. H. White	153 reads
	Paper Towns John Green	627 reads
	Questions of Travel Michelle de Kretser	2 reads
	I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez	45 reads
	Must Love Chainmail Angela Quarles	1 read
	All About Love bell hooks	101 reads
	Gevatter Tod Terry Pratchett	5 reads
	The Iliad/The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	51 reads
	Adventures in the Screen Trade William Goldman	17 reads
	I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb	54 reads
	Lincoln Gore Vidal	12 reads
	MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-433): Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Database Development Tobias Thernstrom Ann Weber Mike Hotek	1 read
	Gender Queer	156 reads
	American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis	366 reads
	On Basilisk Station David Weber	120 reads
	A Plague of Giants Kevin Hearne	25 reads
	The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy Penelope Wilcock	1 read
	La bendición del Oficial del Cielo, Vol. 1 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù Javier Román García (Translator)	0 reads
	Follettiana	1 read
	Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney	270 reads
	Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese	8 reads
	Circle of Desire Carla Swafford	42 reads

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Vote	Details	Readers Count
	Before They Are Hanged Joe Abercrombie	598 reads
	No One Writes to the Colonel Gabriel García Márquez J.S. Bernstein (Translator)	60 reads
	야화첩 3 Byeonduck 변덕	1 read
	The Ritual Shantel Tessier	71 reads
	Butterfly in Amber Camilla Monk	3 reads
	Ninth House Leigh Bardugo	636 reads
	A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett	184 reads
	Dead Witch Walking Kim Harrison	14 reads
	Riddley Walker Russell Hoban	14 reads
	De l'inconvénient d'être né Emil M. Cioran	3 reads
	Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente	23 reads
	The Deep Beyond: Cuckoo's Egg / Serpent's Reach C. J. Cherryh	1 read
	The Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons	18 reads
	Three Day Road Joseph Boyden	8 reads
	Elevation Stephen King	217 reads
	Černobílý svět Kathryn Stockett Jana Kordíková (Translator)	1 read
	Of Blood and Fire Ryan Cahill	108 reads
	The Shadows Alex North	63 reads
	We Are The Dead Mike Shackle	29 reads
	The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed Ash Ali Hasan Kubba	12 reads
	Last Chance to See Mark Carwardine Douglas Adams	61 reads
	Midnight Robber Nalo Hopkinson	13 reads
	The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series	6 reads
	Yours Truly Abby Jimenez	203 reads
	Gin Tama Hideaki Sorachi	5 reads
	Konklave Robert Harris Wolfgang Müller (Translator)	1 read
	Divergence Divergence TurtleMe	12 reads
	The Running Hare John Lewis-Stempel	4 reads
	The Wickwire Watch Jacquelyn Hagen	8 reads
	The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom	281 reads
	The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach	86 reads
	Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin	112 reads
	The Year of the Whale The Year of the Whale Victor B. Scheffler	1 read
	The Institute Stephen King	366 reads
	Dark Rise C.S. Pacat	72 reads
	The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Sangu Mandanna	359 reads
	She Gets the Girl Rachael Lippincott Alyson Derrick	66 reads
	The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle	99 reads
	The Sword of Kaigen M.L. Wang	243 reads
	Master And Commander Patrick O'Brian	81 reads
	The Path of Loneliness The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God Elisabeth Elliot	2 reads
	The Fault in Our Stars John Green	1,532 reads
	Women, Race & Class Angela Y. Davis	32 reads
	A Peregrinação do Rapaz Sem Cor Haruki Murakami	4 reads
	The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck	114 reads
	Wind, Sand And Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	22 reads
	I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	13 reads
	The Anything Box Zenna Henderson	2 reads
	Così in terra Davide Enia	1 read
	A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Charles Dickens	18 reads
	The Hunger of the Gods John Gwynne	130 reads
	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon	27 reads
	Deberías hablar con alguien: Una psicóloga, su terapeuta y un viaje revelador por el alma humana Victoria Simó (Translator) Lori Gottlieb	2 reads
	The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemmingway	0 reads
	Cain's Jawbone E. Powys Mathers	12 reads
	The Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum	22 reads
	Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko	26 reads
	Digital Fortress Dan Brown	446 reads
	Against the Loveless World Susan Abulhawa	26 reads
	Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume 1 Bob Dylan	1 read
	Our Tragic Universe Scarlett Thomas	13 reads
	Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-century Paris comtesse Cäleste Vänard de Chabrillan	0 reads
	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor	84 reads
	The Dragon Reborn Robert Jordan	662 reads
	Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad	563 reads
	Mr. Darcy's Enchantment Mr. Darcy's Enchantment: A Pride & Prejudice Variation Abigail Reynolds	2 reads
	Drums of Autumn Diana Gabaldon	121 reads
	Les moissons funèbres Jesmyn Ward Frédérique Pressmann (Translator)	1 read
	Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction Inio Asano	3 reads
	The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel	258 reads
	Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth Robert Louis Stevenson N. C. Wyeth	1 read
	Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine Ed Macy	1 read
	Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 Microsoft Flight Simulator 98: Unauthorized Game Secrets Douglas Kiang	1 read
	Wolves of the Calla Stephen King	325 reads
	Medvěd a slavík Katherine Arden Kateřina Cardová (Translator)	1 read
	Kiss an Angel Susan Elizabeth Phillips	26 reads
	The Birth House Ami McKay	17 reads
	The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Junauda Petrus	14 reads
	The Once and Future King T. H. White	153 reads
	Paper Towns John Green	627 reads
	Questions of Travel Michelle de Kretser	2 reads
	I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez	45 reads
	Must Love Chainmail Angela Quarles	1 read
	All About Love bell hooks	101 reads
	Gevatter Tod Terry Pratchett	5 reads
	The Iliad/The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	51 reads
	Adventures in the Screen Trade William Goldman	17 reads
	I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb	54 reads
	Lincoln Gore Vidal	12 reads
	MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-433): Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Database Development Tobias Thernstrom Ann Weber Mike Hotek	1 read
	Gender Queer	156 reads
	American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis	366 reads
	On Basilisk Station David Weber	120 reads
	A Plague of Giants Kevin Hearne	25 reads
	The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy Penelope Wilcock	1 read
	La bendición del Oficial del Cielo, Vol. 1 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù Javier Román García (Translator)	0 reads
	Follettiana	1 read
	Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney	270 reads
	Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese	8 reads
	Circle of Desire Carla Swafford	42 reads

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