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 Last Olympian
Rick Riordan
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
Neverwhere
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Sabriel
Garth Nix
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Jay Rubin
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
Skyward
Brandon Sanderson
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
William Weaver (Translator)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo
Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins
Carry On
Rainbow Rowell
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
World War Z
Max Brooks
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Rhythm of War
Brandon Sanderson
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