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
The Young Elites Marie Lu	3.75	135 reads
The High Cost of Free Parking Donald C. Shoup	5	1 read
Grave Peril Jim Butcher	3.85	633 reads
And Shall Machines Surrender Benjanun Sriduangkaew	4.09	21 reads
De wereld als wil en voorstelling Arthur Schopenhauer Hans Driessen (translator)	5	1 read
Spring Snow Yukio Mishima Michael Gallagher (Translator)	4.08	53 reads
Twisted Lies Ana Huang	3.91	133 reads
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself Marisa Crane	3.7	30 reads
The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks	3.57	53 reads
Sabine's Notebook (Griffin & Sabine #2) Nick Bantock	4	26 reads
Mecha Samurai Empire Peter Tieryas	4.13	11 reads
Chosen at Nightfall C. C. Hunter	4	24 reads
Spin Rebecca Caprara	4.33	3 reads
He Who Fights With Monsters 6 Shirtaloon Travis Deverell	4.08	79 reads
Persona normal Benito Taibo	4.54	28 reads
Tales of MU, Vol. 1.0 Tales of MU, Vol. 1.0 Alexandra Erin	4	0 reads
The Book Of Job Stephen Mitchell	3.75	7 reads
Never Seduce A Scot Maya Banks	4.06	46 reads
Certain Dark Things Silvia Moreno-Garcia	3.7	104 reads
The Dead Romantics Ashley Poston	3.83	218 reads
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming	3.81	42 reads
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict Trenton Lee Stewart	4.75	8 reads
The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks	3.33	242 reads
Deathless Catherynne M. Valente	3.88	66 reads
Fearscape Simon Holt	3.5	2 reads
People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry	3.54	33 reads
King Lear William Shakespeare	3.85	283 reads
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms George R.R. Martin	4.14	271 reads
Enola Holmes the Case of the Bizarre Bouquets Nancy Springer	3.73	17 reads
Nirvana Is Here Aaron Hamburger	3.5	2 reads
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko	3.52	40 reads
La scomparsa di Patò Andrea Camilleri	5	3 reads
Float Plan Trish Doller	3.96	33 reads
Silverwing Kenneth Oppel	4.11	25 reads
Persuader Lee Child	3.75	158 reads
When My Name Was Keoko Linda Sue Park	4	8 reads
Ellana la prophétie Pierre Bottero	4.6	6 reads
Poetics Of Cinema Poetics Of Cinema Raúl Ruiz	5	1 read
Scrisoare de dragoste Mihail Drumeş	4.33	3 reads
Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig	4	163 reads
Betty Tiffany McDaniel	4.61	46 reads
O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis José Saramago	3.92	6 reads
A Widow for One Year John Irving	3.67	43 reads
What Dreams May Come Richard Matheson	3.71	33 reads
Bridge To Terabithia Katherine Paterson	3.99	435 reads
Three Mages and a Margarita Annette Marie	3.72	48 reads
The Stranger in the Woods Michael Finkel	3.96	75 reads
Buttons & Hate Penelope Sky	3.69	10 reads
Strangers in Death J. D. Robb	4.33	27 reads
Nationalism Rabindranath Tagore	3.4	6 reads
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board Bethany Hamilton	3.33	6 reads
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read Philippa Perry	4	39 reads
The Austere Academy Lemony Snicket	3.82	368 reads
Lioness Rampant Tamora Pierce	4.03	151 reads
Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee	3.1	201 reads
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus Summary & Study Guide BookRags	4	2 reads
Front Desk Kelly Yang	4.21	54 reads
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane Suzanne Collins	4.2	62 reads
Dama cu camelii Dama cu camelii Alexandre Dumas (Fils)	5	1 read
American Aurora Richard N. Rosenfeld	5	1 read
The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre	4.51	109 reads
Red Sister Mark Lawrence	4.16	252 reads
A Hidden Magic Vivian Vande Velde	3	3 reads
Number the Stars Lois Lowry	4.11	343 reads
The Names They Gave Us Emery Lord	4.45	12 reads
Sisters of Sword and Shadow Laura Bates	4	2 reads
Shade's Children Garth Nix	3.66	21 reads
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell	3.83	502 reads
Murder Mysteries Neil Gaiman P. Craig Russell Lovern Kindzierski Galen Showman	3.85	20 reads
Bread and Jam for Frances Russell Hoban	4.28	21 reads
Fallen Dragon Peter F. Hamilton	3.87	55 reads
Master of the Five Magics Lyndon Hardy	3.42	17 reads
Memorie di una Geisha Arthur Golden	5	3 reads
A long walk to water Linda Sue Park	4.13	38 reads
The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram	4.5	7 reads
Transit Rachel Cusk	4.17	49 reads
I Will Forget This Feeling Someday Yoru Sumino	5	3 reads
The Magnolia Story Chip Gaines	4.18	30 reads
The Forbidden Freshman Katy Archer	4.5	2 reads
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood	3.88	76 reads
Fyre Angie Sage	4.1	30 reads
The Peshawar Lancers S.M. Stirling	3.2	12 reads
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses Barbara Ehrenreich Deirdre English	3.92	15 reads
Annie's Song Catherine Anderson	3.83	14 reads
Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn	3.78	763 reads
The Stranger The Stranger: The Graphic Novel Albert Camus Sandra Smith (Translator)	4	2 reads
Smile Raina Telgemeier	4.01	132 reads
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World Peter Wohlleben	3.96	123 reads
Greenwood Michael Christie	4.06	37 reads
Conversations with Friends Sally Rooney	3.57	424 reads
Forever Your Rogue Erin Langston	3.9	5 reads
Aléxandros. Il Figlio del Sogno Valerio Massimo Manfredi	0	0 reads
The Devil's Alternative Frederick Forsyth	3.5	8 reads
The Storm We Made Vanessa Chan	3.5	7 reads
Making Up Lucy Parker	3.4	8 reads
This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn Aidan Chambers	3.8	5 reads
The Reformatory Tananarive Due	4.51	65 reads
Hostage to Pleasure Nalini Singh	4.3	24 reads
Vivre vite Philippe Besson	4.5	4 reads
Logicomix Apostolos Doxiadis Christos H. Papadimitriou Χρίστος Χ. Παπαδημητρίου	3.92	77 reads