What are your favorite books of all time?Answer

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.

Natasha's Dance

Natasha's Dance
ByOrlando Figes

2002 • 21 Readers • 729 pages 4.4

Why this book?

Russian culture and history are a bit part of me. This book feels like it was written just for me.

War and Peace

War and Peace
ByLeo Tolstoy,Marcy Kahan,+1 more

190 • 1,259 Readers • 838 pages 4.1

Why this book?

I read this in Russian for my final year undergraduate dissertation in 1998, comparing the novel with the 1968 movie adaptation by Sergei Bondarchuk.

The First Chronicles Of Prydain

#1-3 of 6 in The Chronicles of Prydain

1986 • 272 Readers • 472 pages 3.8

Why this book?

It was the beginning of my love of fantasy.

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
ByJohn Steinbeck

1939 • 1,544 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

A Prayer For Owen Meany

1989 • 461 Readers • 79 pages 4.1

Why this book?

It entertained me, enthralled me and made me cry.