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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'Salem's Lot
Stephen King
3.83
574 reads
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Anthony Bonner (Translator)
Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)
3.51
319 reads
The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
3.82
199 reads
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Patricia Ingham
Mark Oxford
3.87
35 reads
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.56
436 reads
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
3.94
68 reads
Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
3.89
247 reads
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Stanley Corngold (Translator)
3.82
821 reads
Three Men In A Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
3.74
111 reads
Revival
Stephen King
3.67
178 reads
Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk
3.47
137 reads
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor
4.05
315 reads
The Shadow Rising
Robert Jordan
4.25
550 reads
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
3.48
1,158 reads
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.24
108 reads
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
3.65
918 reads
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
3.85
203 reads
Scarlet
Marissa Meyer
4.04
401 reads
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
3.72
373 reads
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
4.15
95 reads
Lightning
Dean Koontz
3.83
33 reads
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
3.56
253 reads
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
3.87
138 reads
Golden Son
Pierce Brown
4.43
831 reads
Look to Windward
Iain M. Banks
4.11
90 reads
The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan
4.2
530 reads
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
4.38
53 reads
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Sam Ngo
3.84
492 reads
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.17
396 reads
The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar And Six More
Roald Dahl
Quentin Blake
4.14
43 reads
The Waste Lands
Stephen King
4.19
408 reads
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.7
440 reads
Mort
Terry Pratchett
4.07
597 reads
The Iliad
Homer
Alexander Pope (Translator)
4.03
63 reads
Divergent
Veronica Roth
3.72
1,362 reads
Misery
Stephen King
4.1
601 reads
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
4.06
43 reads
Renegades
Marissa Meyer
4.18
25 reads
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Isabel Florence Hapgood (Translator)
4.19
283 reads
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
3.88
309 reads
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
4.17
368 reads
Emily of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery
4.08
37 reads
The Humans
Matt Haig
3.86
223 reads
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
4.25
498 reads
Winnie The Pooh
A.A. Milne
4.38
32 reads
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
4.48
36 reads
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
4.01
170 reads
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
3.96
164 reads
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
3.88
379 reads
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
3.53
230 reads
Lord of Chaos
Robert Jordan
4.03
442 reads
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.66
352 reads
The Fires of Heaven
Robert Jordan
4.09
471 reads
Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie
3.9
216 reads
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
Olena Bormashenko (Translator)
4.02
221 reads
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