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 Iliad
Homer
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
Extra Yarn
Mac Barnett
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andy Hunt
Dave Thomas
The Lost Years of Merlin
T.A. Barron
The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury
I Am That
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Maurice Frydman (Translator)
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
The Innkeeper's Song
Peter S. Beagle
Mary Poppins
P. L. Travers
Broken Homes
Ben Aaronovitch
I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb
The Heretic Queen
Michelle Moran
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
Abhorsen
Garth Nix
The Dog of the South
Charles Portis
Prince of Fools
Mark Lawrence
Mind of My Mind
Octavia E. Butler
The False Prince
Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough
The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan
Nancy Springer
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler
Charles Van Doren
The Brothers Cabal
Jonathan L. Howard
Spindle's End
Robin McKinley
Gossamer
Lois Lowry
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick
Fool's Errand
Robin Hobb
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Martin Hammond (Translator)
Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings
The Broken Eye
Brent Weeks
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Outlaws Of Sherwood
Robin McKinley
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Georgia Byng
A Face Like Glass
Frances Hardinge
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
Beatrix Potter
Princess Academy
Shannon Hale
Ruby Red
Kerstin Gier
Anthea Bell (Translator)
A Hidden Magic
Vivian Vande Velde
Gin Tama
Hideaki Sorachi
The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman
Tartarin of Tarascon
Alphonse Daudet
Anthem
Ayn Rand
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Ash
Malinda Lo
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
The Thief Lord
Cornelia Funke
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Timothy J. Keller
Kathy Keller
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
Last Light
Alex Scarrow
The Man Who Sold the Moon
Robert A. Heinlein
The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore
Michael LeBoeuf
Mel Lindauer
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
Story Thieves
James Riley
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
Love Story
Erich Segal
Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park
Positive
David Wellington
Scarlet feather
Maeve Binchy
Jellicoe Road
Melina Marchetta
Undeniable
Bill Nye
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
Patricia B. McConnell
Lock and Key
Sarah Dessen
Hollowland
Amanda Hocking
Queen of Shadows
Sarah J. Maas
The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley
The Mist
Stephen King
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Enola Holmes the Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
Nancy Springer
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay
Tales of a Female Nomad
Rita Golden Gelman
Angel Fire East
Terry Brooks
What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell
Renegades / Archenemies / Supernova
Marissa Meyer
Legendary
Stephanie Garber
Silver Lining
Maggie Osborne
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Joachim Neugroschel
Totto-chan
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Dorothy Britton (Translator)
The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
Bitter Greens
Kate Forsyth
Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Hostage to Pleasure
Nalini Singh
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
A Prisoner of Birth
Jeffrey Archer
Rot & Ruin
Jonathan Maberry
Grave Peril
Jim Butcher
The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan
Toll the Hounds
Steven Erikson
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11