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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Little Star
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Marlaine Delargy (Translator)
The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
Stephen King
Every Man Dies Alone
Hans Fallada
Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Jason Schreier
Voyager
Diana Gabaldon
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Descent
Tim Johnston
The Power of Six
Pittacus Lore
Slave to Sensation
Nalini Singh
The Cave
José Saramago
Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
Kamikaze Girls
Novala Takemoto
Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Davina Porter
Diana Gabaldon
The Walled City
Ryan Graudin
Crush
Richard Siken
We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
Grave Mercy
Robin LaFevers
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Bearers of the Black Staff
Terry Brooks
Hounded, Hexed, Hammered - The Iron Druid Chronicles Volume 1
Kevin Hearne
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Dan Sociu (Translator)
The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean
The Great Book of Amber
Roger Zelazny
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby
A Natural History of Dragons
Marie Brennan
Orphan X
Gregg Hurwitz
Erik de Vries (Translator)
Good to Great
James C. Collins
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Erika L. Sánchez
The Peace War
Vernor Vinge
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
Diana Gabaldon
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Blood Music
Greg Bear
Fantasyland
Kurt Andersen
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
The Dream Thieves
Maggie Stiefvater
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
India Holton
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 3
David Lewis
David Lewis (Translator)
Toren Smith (Translator)
Kaori Inoue (Translator)
Joe Yamazaki (Translator)
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
The Aeneid
Virgil
Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)
The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo
Small Favor
Jim Butcher
Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
The Kingdom of Back
Marie Lu
Timekeeper
Tara Sim
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
Sky Without Stars
Jessica Brody
Joanne Rendell
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
Queen of Air and Darkness
Cassandra Clare
Vespertine
Margaret Rogerson
Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Beverly Cleary
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
The Hunger of the Gods
John Gwynne
Better Than the Movies
Lynn Painter
Drums of Autumn
Diana Gabaldon
Rhapsodic
Laura Thalassa
The Silver Metal Lover
Tanith Lee
Why We Took the Car
Wolfgang Herrndorf
Tim Mohr (Translator)
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Thunderhead
Neal Shusterman
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
The Prison Healer
Lynette Noni
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Stacy Schiff
John Adams
David McCullough
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Winter
Marissa Meyer
Fall of Giants
Ken Follett
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Deep Blue
Jennifer Donnelly
From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout
Empire of the Vampire
Jay Kristoff
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
A Crown of Swords
Robert Jordan
Searching for God Knows What
Donald Miller
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews
The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
Memnoch the Devil
Anne Rice
Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman
Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1: Scott's Precious Little Life