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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Readers1,730

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Code Name Hélène Ariel Lawhon	4.42	21 reads
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Alexandra Fuller	3.9	24 reads
La nuit des temps René Barjavel	4.22	22 reads
The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Joachim Neugroschel	3.82	15 reads
Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety Jerzy Czech (Translator) Svetlana Alexievich Swietłana Aleksijewicz	4.33	3 reads
One of Ours Willa Cather	3.78	11 reads
La alargada sombra del amor La alargada sombra del amor Mathias Malzieu	4	2 reads
Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson	4.35	334 reads
I love Dick Chris Kraus Evi Hoste (Translator) Anniek Kool (Translator)	3.6	34 reads
aquí dentro siempre llueve Chris Pueyo	4.5	7 reads
Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime Katherine Murray	0	1 read
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning Maggie Nelson	4.25	7 reads
Morningstar David Gemmell	4.43	12 reads
Excellent Women Barbara Pym	4.12	18 reads
The Children of Hurin J.R.R. Tolkien	3.86	163 reads
Love and Other Words Christina Lauren	3.93	246 reads
Agent to the Stars John Scalzi	3.84	133 reads
A Grief Observed C. S. Lewis	4.24	69 reads
The Searcher Tana French	3.78	129 reads
Lullabies for Little Criminals Heather O'Neill	4.32	20 reads
The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket	3.84	781 reads
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row Anthony Ray Hinton Lara Love Hardin	4.5	49 reads
He Who Fights with Monsters 7 Shirtaloon Travis Deverell	4.11	75 reads
He Who Fights with Monsters Shirtaloon Travis Deverell	4.1	128 reads
From the Jump Lacie Waldon	3.75	6 reads
Comanche Heart Catherine Anderson	3.5	4 reads
The Midnight Bargain C.L. Polk	3.99	51 reads
The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex Tamsyn Muir	3.76	53 reads
The Punch Escrow Tal M. Klein	3.32	28 reads
The Black Company Glen Cook	3.66	194 reads
Heartless Hunter Kristen Ciccarelli	4.15	137 reads
Born at Midnight C. C. Hunter	3.71	45 reads
The Necromancer's House Christopher Buehlman	3.95	14 reads
The Simple Wild K.A. Tucker	4.42	69 reads
My Phantoms Gwendoline Riley	3.6	9 reads
Killing Floor Lee Child Lee Child	3.73	428 reads
The Course of Love Alain de Botton	4.13	56 reads
Firestorm Nevada Barr	4	15 reads
Hush, Hush Becca Fitzpatrick	3.33	294 reads
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Michelle McNamara	4.06	392 reads
On Beauty Zadie Smith	3.79	94 reads
Inheritance Christopher Paolini	3.84	515 reads
Small Favor Jim Butcher	4.25	381 reads
Geis of the Gargoyle Piers Anthony	3	15 reads
The Running Man	3.69	238 reads
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson	3.78	298 reads
Something to Talk About Meryl Wilsner	3.54	71 reads
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Tamora Pierce	3.96	158 reads
Swimming in the Dark Tomasz Jedrowski	4.35	105 reads
Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon	3.99	262 reads
La versione di Barney Mordecai Richler Matteo Codignola (Translator)	4.5	4 reads
The Philosopher and the Wolf The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons in Love, Death, and Happiness Mark Rowlands	4	1 read
The Awakening Kate Chopin	3.59	175 reads
The Store Bentley Little	3.43	16 reads
The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov	3.85	161 reads
Papillon Henri Charrière	3.87	45 reads
Poor Economics Abhijit V. Banerjee Esther Duflo	4.16	29 reads
House of Meetings Martin Amis	3	2 reads
Simone Weil Simone Weil: An Anthology Simone Weil, Siân Miles	0	0 reads
Katarsis Anastasia Aemilia	3.5	3 reads
Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation Mitzi J. Smith	5	1 read
Cheri and The Last of Cheri Colette Roger Senhouse (Translator)	0	1 read
Greenglass House Kate Milford	4.08	49 reads
Slob Ellen Potter	5	1 read
The Last Hero Terry Pratchett	3.94	138 reads
The Palace Papers The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil Tina Brown	0	2 reads
London: The Biography Peter Ackroyd	3.5	10 reads
Foe Iain Reid	3.72	117 reads
All I Ever Wanted Kristan Higgins	4.08	15 reads
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman Stefan Zweig	4.5	9 reads
Die Verwandlung / Brief an den Vater und andere Werke / und weitere Werke Franz Kafka Elisabeth Becker	5	1 read
The Only Gold Tamara Allen	4.67	6 reads
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	4.07	199 reads
Soulkeeper David Dalglish	4.29	16 reads
Enter the Body Joy McCullough	4.27	11 reads
Even Though I Knew the End C.L. Polk	3.89	99 reads
The Eyes and the Impossible Dave Eggers	3.93	9 reads
Dungeon People, Vol. 2 sui hutami	4.5	1 read
The Place Where They Cried Rose Christo	5	1 read
Big Red Barn Margaret Wise Brown	4.5	4 reads
The Last Green Valley Mark T. Sullivan	4.47	15 reads
The Secret Garden	4	10 reads
We Both Laughed In Pleasure : The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan Lou Sullivan	4	6 reads
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang	4.35	67 reads
Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends Adapted from the World's Great Classics Anne Terry White	5	2 reads
Anti-Oedipus Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari	4.33	23 reads
Enchanters' End Game David Eddings	3.88	185 reads
Day Zero C. Robert Cargill	3.82	32 reads
The Dark Beyond The Stars Frank M. Robinson	4	6 reads
The Illiad Homer	4	17 reads
Always Only You Chloe Liese	4.04	60 reads
Shantaram Gregory David Roberts	4.03	166 reads
The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman	4.21	60 reads
Knife of Dreams Robert Jordan	4.08	428 reads
Snekker Andersen Og Julenissen Alf Proysen	5	2 reads
Equal Rites Terry Pratchett	3.93	605 reads
To Green Angel Tower Tad Williams	4	62 reads
Johnathan Livingston Seagull Johnathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach	4.21	9 reads
The Girl Who Drank the Moon Kelly Barnhill	4.09	172 reads
The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis	4.18	48 reads