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 End of the Beginning
Avi
Bridge To Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
The Fairy-Tale Detectives
Michael Buckley
Mating
Norman Rush
Straken
Terry Brooks
Frindle
Andrew Clements
Brian Selznick
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
Batman: The Long Halloween
Jeph Loeb
A long walk to water
Linda Sue Park
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Eckhart Tolle
Are You My Mother?
P.D. Eastman
The Practice of the Wild: Essays
Gary Snyder
Fearscape
Simon Holt
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card
Without Remorse
Tom Clancy
Omens
Kelley Armstrong
A Praying Life
Paul E. Miller
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Inio Asano
Shibumi
Trevanian
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai
Christina Lamb
Falling Angels
Tracy Chevalier
Into the Wild
Erin Hunter
The Spell of the Sensuous
David Abram
Hell House
Richard Matheson
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
John Steinbeck
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)
First Lord's Fury
Jim Butcher
The Realms of the Gods
Tamora Pierce
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
Lincoln
Gore Vidal
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Agatha Christie
Phone Home, Persephone!
Kate McMullan
Denis Zilber
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
William Weaver (Translator)
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Tara Brach
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle
Captain's Fury
Jim Butcher
Batgirl, Volume 1: Batgirl of Burnside
The Lollipop Shoes
Joanne Harris
Pushing Ice
Alastair Reynolds
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin
The Devouring
Simon Holt
Bloodchild
Octavia E. Butler
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Blankets
Craig Thompson
The Likeness
Tana French
Everything Leads to You
Nina LaCour
A Girl of The Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter
Tales of the Madman Underground
John Barnes
A Voice in the Wind
Francine Rivers
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
No One Writes to the Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez
J.S. Bernstein (Translator)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Honestly Ben
Bill Konigsberg
On a Sunbeam
Tillie Walden
Wheel of Misfortune (Dragon Slayers' Academy, 7)
Kate McMullan
The Farseer Trilogy
Robin Hobb
An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon
A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Secret of the Old Clock
Carolyn Keene
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
Excession
Iain M. Banks
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf
Kane & Abel
Jeffrey Archer
Pines
Blake Crouch
The thin executioner
Darren Shan
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin
The Screwtape Letters
The Music of Chance
Paul Auster
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
The Queen's Rising
Rebecca Ross
Palace Beautiful
Sarah DeFord Williams
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Bill Watterson
Foreigner
C. J. Cherryh
The Book of Lost Things
John Connolly
Gravity
Tess Gerritsen
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Tamora Pierce
Messiah
Gore Vidal
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent
The Letter for the King
Tonke Dragt
Laura Watkinson (Translator)
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
G. Willow Wilson
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
The Constant Gardener
John le Carré
Innocence
Dean Koontz
Sula
Toni Morrison
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales