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
Blood Sugar Daniel Kraus	5	1 read
The Day of the Door Laurel Hightower	3.67	3 reads
The Big Short Michael Lewis	4.18	204 reads
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear Frank Miller	4.24	41 reads
Spunky Spunky Dori Brink	5	1 read
Weather Girl Rachel Lynn Solomon	3.74	62 reads
Wildwood Dancing Juliet Marillier	3.92	39 reads
Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis	4.27	274 reads
Edipo Rey Sófocles	3.75	11 reads
New York to Dallas J.D. Robb	4.28	25 reads
Firmin Sam Savage	4.33	4 reads
The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller	3.81	87 reads
Milkman Anna Burns	3.67	80 reads
Ariadne Jennifer Saint	3.63	188 reads
Love Radio Ebony LaDelle	4.57	16 reads
Ra qntm Sam Hughes	4.35	27 reads
Must Love Chainmail Angela Quarles	3	1 read
Against the Loveless World Susan Abulhawa	4.57	33 reads
The Institute Stephen King	4.02	493 reads
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth Zoe Thorogood	4.05	37 reads
Summer Knight Jim Butcher	4.03	556 reads
Pet Akwaeke Emezi	4.29	130 reads
The Godfather Mario Puzo	3.87	19 reads
If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority Angela N. Parker	4.25	4 reads
The Invisible Hour Alice Hoffman	4	29 reads
Crossroads Laurel Hightower	3.85	28 reads
Why Didn't You Tell Me? Carmen Rita Wong	3.5	3 reads
Graceling Kristin Cashore	3.89	446 reads
Rival Darling Alexandra Moody	3.94	10 reads
The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard	3.54	16 reads
The Neutronium Alchemist Peter F. Hamilton	4.05	67 reads
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 Shirtaloon Travis Deverell	4.21	108 reads
The Color of Distance Amy Thomson	4.83	5 reads
Mindhunter John E. Douglas Mark Olshaker	3.92	103 reads
Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks	3.59	483 reads
Sabrina Nick Drnaso	3.63	58 reads
Forging the Darksword Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman	3.55	32 reads
El hombre en busca de sentido Viktor Frankl	4.2	7 reads
Archenemies Marissa Meyer	4.05	135 reads
Middlegame Seanan McGuire	4.07	170 reads
House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III	3.5	14 reads
Song of the Abyss Emma Hamm	3.75	4 reads
Throne of the Fallen Kerri Maniscalco	3.82	62 reads
Gridlinked Neal Asher	3.65	71 reads
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)	3.68	791 reads
Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon	3.67	41 reads
Estudio en escarlata Arthur Conan Doyle	4.48	36 reads
Alle Satiren Ephraim Kishon	0	0 reads
Labyrinth's Heart M.A. Carrick	4.15	14 reads
Mr Warren's Profession Sebastian Nothwell	3.33	4 reads
Swear on This Life Renee Carlino	3.5	23 reads
The Romantic Agenda Claire Kann	4.22	13 reads
The House Is on Fire Rachel Beanland	4.19	15 reads
Final del juego Julio Cortázar	4.5	16 reads
Will They or Won't They Ava Wilder	3.75	15 reads
Meditations Marcus Aurelius Martin Hammond (Translator)	4.17	507 reads
Peter and the Starcatchers Dave Barry Ridley Pearson	3.85	93 reads
The Solitaire Mystery Jostein Gaarder	4	23 reads
Cursed Bunny Bora Chung Deaz Putri (Translator)	3.64	110 reads
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders	3.88	292 reads
I Found God in Me I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader	5	1 read
The Secret History of Star Wars Michael Kaminski	3.6	6 reads
One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America Gene Weingarten	3	2 reads
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife Ashley Winstead	3.82	180 reads
Microsoft Access 2013 Introduction Quick Reference Guide Beezix Inc.	0	0 reads
The Changeover Margaret Mahy	3.57	9 reads
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Freefall Joss Whedon Andrew Chambliss Jane Espenson	0	0 reads
The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power	4	20 reads
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Cal Newport	4.01	412 reads
Murder at Haven's Rock Kelley Armstrong	3.77	12 reads
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power Carolyn Elliott	4	9 reads
The Camel Club David Baldacci	3.65	61 reads
No Exit Jean-Paul Sartre Stuart Gilbert (Translator) Lionel Abel (Translator)	3.91	83 reads
Land of the Lustrous, Vol. 13 Land of the Lustrous, Vol. 13 Haruko Ichikawa	4.6	5 reads
The Shadowed Sun N.K. Jemisin	4.32	62 reads
The Ghost Bride Yangsze Choo	3.75	86 reads
The Hawk and the Dove Trilogy Penelope Wilcock	5	1 read
Secrets for the Mad Dodie Clark	4.44	10 reads
Robogenesis Daniel H. Wilson	3.66	25 reads
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez	3.59	65 reads
Love Wins Rob Bell	3.6	36 reads
I Speak Boy Jessica Brody	5	1 read
Digital Fortress Dan Brown	3.39	601 reads
Infinity Gate M.R. Carey	4.19	51 reads
The Year of the Whale The Year of the Whale Victor B. Scheffler	0	1 read
The Peripheral William Gibson	3.82	188 reads
The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway	3.67	28 reads
Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity Ray Bradbury	3.8	57 reads
Kamikaze Girls Novala Takemoto Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)	4	6 reads
Our Violent Ends Chloe Gong	4.14	85 reads
Flux Stephen Baxter	3.06	11 reads
The Drawing of the Three Stephen King	4.12	687 reads
XOXO Axie Oh	3.68	69 reads
The Practice of the Wild: Essays Gary Snyder	4	4 reads
Le notti bianche / La cronaca di Pietroburgo Fyodor Dostoevsky Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij	4.14	11 reads
Hellboy in Hell Library Edition Mike Mignola	4.2	6 reads
Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone Diana Gabaldon	4.18	53 reads
He Who Fights With Monsters 8 Shirtaloon Travis Deverell	4.14	68 reads
Seda Alessandro Baricco Carlos Gumpert (Translator) Xavier González Rovira (Translator)	3.69	16 reads
A Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals Millie Marotta	5	2 reads