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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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
If We Were Villains
M.L. Rio
Empire of Storms
Sarah J. Maas
Normal People
Sally Rooney
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Royal Assassin
Robin Hobb
A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas
Beach Read
Emily Henry
Clockwork Princess
Cassandra Clare
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
We Are Legion
Dennis E. Taylor
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Kathy Emery
Ellen Gordon Reeves
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder
Paulette Møller (Translator)
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Ken Liu (Translator)
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
A Memory of Light
Brandon Sanderson
Robert Jordan
The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
Ros Schwartz (Translator)
Demon in White
Christopher Ruocchio
Novecento. Un monologo
Alessandro Baricco
Heartstopper: Volume One
Alice Oseman
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Host
Stephenie Meyer
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Emma
Jane Austen
Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Memories of Ice
Steven Erikson
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Empire of Silence
Christopher Ruocchio
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Blindness
José Saramago
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Last Argument of Kings
Joe Abercrombie
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Donald Keene (Translator)
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream