What are your favorite books of all time?

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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Details	Rating	Readers Count
Submarine Joe Dunthorne	3.5	16 reads
Sveiks, jautrais Rodžer! Valdis Rūmnieks Andrejs Migla	5	1 read
Love Letters to the Dead Ava Dellaira	3.46	73 reads
The Mercy of Thin Air Ronlyn Domingue	4	5 reads
Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast Benjanun Sriduangkaew	4	7 reads
The Wishsong of Shannara Terry Brooks	3.66	92 reads
The Steerswoman Rosemary Kirstein	3.91	43 reads
Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut	3.9	70 reads
The Lonesome Bodybuilder Yukiko Motoya Asa Yoneda (Translator)	3.59	16 reads
Hooky Míriam Bonastre Tur	4	21 reads
Fall of Giants Ken Follett	4.08	188 reads
Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino	4.04	163 reads
Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand Brian Hooker (Translator) Walter Hampden	4.1	100 reads
Bag of Bones Stephen King	3.63	204 reads
Deacon King Kong James McBride	4.18	67 reads
Shortcomings Adrian Tomine	3.18	43 reads
Inkheart Anthea Bell (Translator) Cornelia Funke	3.83	437 reads
Hero of the Imperium Sandy Mitchell	4.14	14 reads
I've Got You Under My Skin Mary Higgins Clark	4.33	4 reads
The Mark of Athena Rick Riordan	4.19	689 reads
Låt den rätte komma in Låt den rätte komma in John Ajvide Lindqvist	4.67	5 reads
Another Country James Baldwin	4.02	39 reads
撫物語 NisiOisiN	4.75	4 reads
Earl Crush Alexandra Vasti	4.33	6 reads
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng	4.33	4 reads
The Pisces Melissa Broder	3.35	56 reads
Halo Encyclopedia Microsoft	0	0 reads
Postmortem Patricia Cornwell Patricia Daniels Cornwell	3.7	145 reads
Dreamer's Pool Juliet Marillier	3.88	44 reads
The Awakening of Ren Crown The Awakening of Ren Crown Anne Zoelle	4	2 reads
Amsterdam Ian McEwan	3.31	71 reads
Genesis of Shannara Series Terry Brooks	3.8	30 reads
Winter of Fire Sherryl Jordan	0	1 read
The Mountains of Channandran Susan Dexter	0	1 read
Rival Darling Alexandra Moody	3.94	10 reads
Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier	3.82	183 reads
Junia Is Not Alone Scot McKnight	4	2 reads
The Dead Zone Stephen King	3.81	342 reads
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Adam Kay	4.3	212 reads
Stealing the Mystic Lamb Noah Charney	0	1 read
Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian	3.92	117 reads
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières	3.96	45 reads
Una storia semplice Leonardo Sciascia	3.94	9 reads
Stones from the River Ursula Hegi	3.9	22 reads
A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray	3.6	200 reads
The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith Weedon Grossmith	3.41	22 reads
The Story of a New Name Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.46	154 reads
Peace Talks Jim Butcher	4.09	258 reads
Proyecto de obras completas Rodrigo Lira	5	1 read
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Language Reference Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Language Reference Microsoft Corporation	2	1 read
The Cask of Amontillado - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Edgar Allan Poe	4.1	115 reads
World Without End Ken Follett	4.09	215 reads
Five Survive Holly Jackson	3.86	199 reads
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 Rashid Khalidi	4.43	53 reads
Homesick: Stories Nino Cipri	4.17	7 reads
Dept. of Speculation	3.72	104 reads
Rouge Mona Awad	3.8	99 reads
Nekomonogatari (White): Cat Tale Ko Ransom (Translator)	5	6 reads
O vilarejo Raphael Montes	4	16 reads
Fairy Tail, Vol. 1 Hiro Mashima	3.4	8 reads
The Running Grave Robert Galbraith	4.46	84 reads
Black and Blue Ian Rankin	4	16 reads
Revolution Peter Ackroyd	4.17	3 reads
Outlaws Of Sherwood Robin McKinley	3.33	16 reads
Lock and Key Sarah Dessen	3.74	96 reads
Water Alice Outwater	5	1 read
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne Wilda C. Gafney	5	5 reads
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood	3.94	177 reads
Little Thieves Margaret Owen	4.33	57 reads
Tuyo Rachel Neumeier	4	6 reads
Grown Tiffany D. Jackson	4.42	66 reads
Die Taube Patrick Süskind	3	5 reads
Liar's Poker Michael Lewis	3.99	111 reads
The Elementals Michael McDowell	3.93	59 reads
Last Night at the Telegraph Club Malinda Lo	4.36	166 reads
Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson	4.05	98 reads
The Showers Dylan Sindelar	4	2 reads
Ministry of Moral Panic Amanda Lee Koe	4	2 reads
The Program Suzanne Young	3.59	52 reads
La uruguaya Pedro Mairal	4.05	10 reads
Moon Called Patricia Briggs	3.79	251 reads
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason India Holton	4.44	17 reads
Toxic Sludge is Good for You John Clyde Stauber Sheldon Rampton	3.5	2 reads
Shelter in Place Nora Roberts	4.3	15 reads
Pattern Recognition William Gibson	3.82	193 reads
The Dragon Riders of Pern The Dragon Riders of Pern Anne McCaffrey	0	0 reads
Graceling Kristin Cashore	3.89	446 reads
A Love Beyond Time Judie Aitken	4	1 read
From the Bullet to the Ballot Jakobi Williams	5	1 read
My Policeman Bethan Roberts	3.72	58 reads
Déjà Dead Kathy Reichs	3.57	115 reads
The Wool Trilogy Hugh Howey	4.64	25 reads
The Abyss Beyond Dreams Peter F. Hamilton	4	4 reads
Harleen #1 Stjepan Šejić	4.59	42 reads
The Princess Affair Nell Stark	4.25	5 reads
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life John le Carré	4	20 reads
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe Simon Singh	4.33	15 reads
Time's Arrow Martin Amis	4.33	6 reads
Withered Hill David Barnett	3.5	7 reads
Les hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes Stieg Larsson	4.27	16 reads