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