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
Memorial do convento Memorial do convento José Saramago	2.5	3 reads
The Somnambulist's Dreams Lars Boye Jerlach	5	1 read
The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy	3.98	69 reads
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara	3.7	15 reads
The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden	4.14	30 reads
Turn Coat Jim Butcher	4.33	376 reads
Don't Let the Forest In C.G. Drews	4.21	37 reads
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs	3.63	801 reads
The Stolen Chapters James Riley	4.5	8 reads
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Claire North	4.04	316 reads
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Ann Brashares	3.65	271 reads
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle	4.15	88 reads
Fog Crest Abigail Hammond	5	1 read
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Robert Macfarlane	4.2	23 reads
All My Rage Sabaa Tahir	4.47	73 reads
Assassin's Creed: Heresy Christie Golden	4.38	4 reads
Sparrow Rising Jessica Khoury	5	1 read
In the First Circle In the First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	4.33	4 reads
After Dark Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin (Translator)	3.65	303 reads
The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell	3.74	48 reads
Harbor John Ajvide Lindqvist	3.46	15 reads
Dragonsong Anne McCaffrey	4.16	118 reads
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey Michael Collins	4.4	14 reads
Fairest : The Lunar Chronicles Levana's Story Marissa Meyer	3.82	216 reads
Houdini Heart Ki Longfellow	4	3 reads
Fantasyland Kurt Andersen	4.31	17 reads
When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can't Live Without Laura Story	4.5	3 reads
Nala's World Dean Nicholson Garry Jenkins	4	6 reads
Caliban and the Witch Silvia Federici	4.38	31 reads
Indian Horse Richard Wagamese	4.34	38 reads
Gay Berlin Robert Beachy	4.5	4 reads
A Day of Fallen Night Samantha Shannon	4.35	126 reads
The King Jesus gospel Scot McKnight	0	0 reads
The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer Jonathan Morris	3.5	2 reads
Il potere della luce Elisabetta Gnone	4.32	19 reads
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818-2018 Maria Parrino Alessandro Scarsella Michela Vanon Alliata	0	1 read
When the Moon Hatched Sarah A. Parker	3.76	129 reads
The Talismans of Shannara Terry Brooks	3.83	49 reads
The Cement Garden Ian McEwan	3.59	43 reads
Good Wives Louisa May Alcott	3.89	28 reads
Die 13½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär Walter Moers	4.08	64 reads
The little white horse Elizabeth Goudge	4.25	18 reads
Gardens of the Moon Steven Erikson	3.98	544 reads
Ladybirds R. Raeta	3.5	2 reads
Little Weirds Jenny Slate	3.59	41 reads
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Tom Felton	4.21	118 reads
The Butcher's Masquerade Matt Dinniman	4.56	249 reads
The End is Nigh	3.43	27 reads
The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith	4.11	22 reads
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright	4.49	53 reads
Bright Young Women Jessica Knoll	4.23	146 reads
Fire in the Belly Sam Keen	4.5	2 reads
Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey	4.43	63 reads
The Dog of the South Charles Portis	3.8	17 reads
Blood Song Anthony Ryan	4.37	216 reads
The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket	3.9	279 reads
Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley	4.13	191 reads
Dark Moon David Gemmell	3.75	13 reads
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss Claire Nouvian	4.5	2 reads
Regretting You Colleen Hoover	3.99	127 reads
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News Peter Enns	4.03	17 reads
Las gratitudes Pablo Martín Sánchez (Translator) Delphine de Vigan	4.56	11 reads
Homeland R. A. Salvatore	3.93	227 reads
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Natalie Goldberg	3.93	58 reads
Taken at Dusk C. C. Hunter	3.86	29 reads
Manacled SenLinYu	4.47	131 reads
Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary Christian Kay	5	0 reads
Chosen by God R.C. Sproul	4.8	8 reads
Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher Walter Moers	4.35	19 reads
The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov	3.98	344 reads
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner	3.74	194 reads
The Four Winds Kristin Hannah	4.13	260 reads
The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving	4.04	63 reads
The Wind in the Willows - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Kenneth Grahame	0	1 read
Misty of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry	3.95	42 reads
Women Charles Bukowski	3.71	75 reads
Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi	3.7	85 reads
The Mote in God's Eye Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle	3.78	200 reads
The Goose Girl Shannon Hale	4.08	92 reads
The Homewreckers Mary Kay Andrews	3.29	8 reads
Black Sheep Rachel Harrison	3.87	64 reads
One Past Midnight: The Langoliers Stephen King	3.87	39 reads
Books of Blood: Volume I Clive Barker	3.83	68 reads
Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg	4.14	93 reads
Bossypants	3.83	697 reads
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows Diana Gabaldon	3.89	14 reads
Omens Kelley Armstrong	4.33	5 reads
The Blue Hammer The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald	5	3 reads
Forging Hephaestus Drew Hayes	4.08	32 reads
Cress Marissa Meyer	4.26	465 reads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury	0	0 reads
Dissolution C.J. Sansom	3.98	71 reads
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha Tara Brach	3.88	49 reads
Black Sun Rebecca Roanhorse	4.06	238 reads
Piezas Victor L. Pinel	4.5	2 reads
A Study in Charlotte Brittany Cavallaro	3.6	131 reads
El marino que perdió la gracia del mar Yukio Mishima Jesús Zulaica (Translator)	4.4	5 reads
Verity Colleen Hoover	3.74	916 reads
The Ender's Shadow Series Box Set Orson Scott Card	5	1 read
Code Name Hélène Ariel Lawhon	4.42	21 reads