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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Readers1,740

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Exile R. A. Salvatore	3.99	164 reads
Don Quijote de la Mancha (1). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	3.83	18 reads
Wild Magic Tamora Pierce	4.24	122 reads
Akira, Vol. 1 Yoko Umezawa (Translator) Linda M. York (Translator) Jo Duffy (Translator) Katsuhiro Ōtomo	4.33	132 reads
Messiah Boris Starling	3.5	2 reads
Child of Vengeance David Kirk	3.75	4 reads
The Christmas Pig J. K. Rowling	4.13	28 reads
Erebus: The Story of a Ship Michael Palin	3.98	25 reads
Defiant Brandon Sanderson	4.34	217 reads
Ship of Destiny Robin Hobb	4.27	195 reads
The Sunset Limited Cormac McCarthy	3.69	32 reads
The Soulmate Equation Christina Lauren	3.99	187 reads
Next of Kin Hannah Bonam-Young	3.7	25 reads
Spring fever Mary Kay Andrews	4	8 reads
SilverFin Charlie Higson	3.38	31 reads
Sunshine Robin McKinley	3.58	92 reads
Bloodmarked Tracy Deonn	4.22	148 reads
Shop Class as Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford	0	0 reads
Psychology Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour Nigel Holt	5	1 read
La Insoportable Levedad Del Ser Milan Kundera	3.97	27 reads
The Sportswriter Richard Ford	3.48	27 reads
Sharp Ends Joe Abercrombie	3.94	137 reads
The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline	3.94	114 reads
The Magic of Recluce L.E. Modesitt Jr.	3.66	84 reads
Naked in Death J. D. Robb	4	6 reads
Malevolent Malevolent Jana Deleon	3.56	12 reads
Starfish Peter Watts	3.79	52 reads
The Things We Leave Unfinished Rebecca Yarros	4.08	47 reads
Time Enough for Drums Ann Rinaldi	4	5 reads
Lover Eternal J.R. Ward	4.05	110 reads
Lost in the Moment and Found Seanan McGuire	4.49	84 reads
Hunger Roxane Gay	4.2	128 reads
Perkumpulan Anak Luar Nikah Grace Tioso	4.67	3 reads
Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinborough	3.69	181 reads
Holy the Firm Annie Dillard	4.58	16 reads
Angel Fire East Terry Brooks	3.48	34 reads
Fortune Falls Goebel, Jenny	0	1 read
Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand	4.38	276 reads
Old masters Thomas Bernhard Ewald Osers (Translator)	4.33	3 reads
From Old Notebooks Evan Lavender-Smith	4	1 read
The Daughter of Time josephine-tey	3.85	60 reads
Did You Ever Have a Family Bill Clegg	3.44	21 reads
Fable Adrienne Young	3.78	111 reads
The House of Doors Tan Twan Eng	3.74	22 reads
Batman: Ego Darwyn Cooke	4	12 reads
The Witch, the Sword, and the Cursed Knights Alexandria Rogers	3.8	5 reads
Silver Lining Maggie Osborne	4	14 reads
Trilogía Fuego 1. Ciudades de humo Joana Marcús	4.5	3 reads
The Lake Banana Yoshimoto Michael Emmerich (Translator)	3.33	18 reads
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Marya Hornbacher	3.77	26 reads
Above All, Honor Radclyffe	4.17	7 reads
A Beautiful Friendship David Weber	3.6	7 reads
Lives of the Monster Dogs Kirsten Bakis	3	6 reads
Enthralled Tiffany Roberts	4.25	11 reads
Magic William Goldman	4	6 reads
Interior Chinatown Charles Yu	3.86	195 reads
Follettiana	5	1 read
La bendición del Oficial del Cielo, Vol. 1 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù Javier Román García (Translator)	0	0 reads
The White Album Joan Didion	4.06	48 reads
On Basilisk Station David Weber	3.85	166 reads
Gender Queer	4.45	204 reads
MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-433): Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Database Development Tobias Thernstrom Ann Weber Mike Hotek	4	1 read
I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb	4	88 reads
Adventures in the Screen Trade William Goldman	3.71	18 reads
Gevatter Tod Terry Pratchett	4.25	8 reads
The Once and Future King T. H. White	3.78	181 reads
Catedrales Claudia Piñeiro	4.06	17 reads
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them Junauda Petrus	3.79	16 reads
Με μολύβι φάμπερ νούμερο δύο Alki Zei Άλκη Ζέη	5	1 read
The Spiritually Vibrant Home: The Power of Messy Prayers, Loud Tables, and Open Doors Don Everts	4.25	2 reads
Kiss an Angel Susan Elizabeth Phillips	3.64	34 reads
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 Microsoft Flight Simulator 98: Unauthorized Game Secrets Douglas Kiang	2	1 read
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin	4.12	106 reads
Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine Ed Macy	5	2 reads
The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel	3.81	341 reads
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, Vol. 1 Inio Asano	5	3 reads
The Partner John Grisham	3.78	82 reads
A Summer to Die Lois Lowry	4	12 reads
Mr. Darcy's Enchantment Mr. Darcy's Enchantment: A Pride & Prejudice Variation Abigail Reynolds	4.42	7 reads
The Dragon Reborn Robert Jordan	4.14	853 reads
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor	3.97	104 reads
Arigatō, Vol 1 Naoki Yamamoto	5	1 read
Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-century Paris comtesse Cäleste Vänard de Chabrillan	0	0 reads
Something Blue Emily Giffin	3.78	60 reads
Our Tragic Universe Scarlett Thomas	2.92	13 reads
Bob Dylan Chronicles: Volume 1 Bob Dylan	3	2 reads
Cain's Jawbone E. Powys Mathers	4.29	12 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemmingway	0	0 reads
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings Charles Dickens	3.85	25 reads
Carcoma Layla Martínez	4.29	24 reads
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith	3.82	19 reads
Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.33	28 reads
The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham	3.6	32 reads
Women, Race & Class Angela Y. Davis	4.61	47 reads
The Path of Loneliness The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God Elisabeth Elliot	5	2 reads
Julia Sandra Newman	3.65	19 reads
Dark Rise C.S. Pacat	4.17	91 reads
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom	3.64	362 reads
The Running Hare John Lewis-Stempel	4.67	4 reads
Divergence Divergence TurtleMe	4.14	23 reads