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
If I Stay Gayle Forman	3.63	408 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64	467 reads
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	4.34	788 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.05	347 reads
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge	3.95	295 reads
From hell Alan Moore	4.23	116 reads
One Dark Window Rachel Gillig	4.1	363 reads
Morning Star Pierce Brown	4.43	958 reads
The Obelisk Gate N.K. Jemisin	4.29	807 reads
Dead until Dark Charlaine Harris	3.54	422 reads
Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.28	310 reads
Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls	3.99	343 reads
The Wandering Inn pirate aba	4.2	98 reads
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng	3.99	696 reads
Jade City Fonda Lee	4.08	609 reads
Radio Silence Alice Oseman	4.02	254 reads
A Closed and Common Orbit Becky Chambers	4.34	505 reads
The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle	3.89	194 reads
The Autumn Republic Brian McClellan	4.29	159 reads
The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper	4.08	96 reads
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.8	473 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Hwang Bo-Reum Shanna Tan (Translator)	4.02	127 reads
Yours Truly Abby Jimenez	4.21	275 reads
The Crimson Campaign Brian McClellan	4.23	212 reads
The Gifts of Imperfection Brené Brown	4.05	173 reads
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout	4.02	159 reads
Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros	4.02	1,218 reads
The Player of Games Iain M. Banks	4.16	358 reads
One Last Stop Casey McQuiston	3.95	392 reads
Changes Jim Butcher	4.53	368 reads
City of Bones Cassandra Clare	3.59	1,134 reads
Narcissus and Goldmund Hermann Hesse Ursule Molinaro (Translator)	4.11	64 reads
The Grace of Kings Ken Liu	3.71	191 reads
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer	3.62	316 reads
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls	4.16	423 reads
The Waste Lands Stephen King	4.16	545 reads
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel	3.85	180 reads
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins	3.99	135 reads
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher	4.14	245 reads
Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges	4.33	69 reads
Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall	4.01	276 reads
The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck	3.81	159 reads
A Deadly Education Naomi Novik	3.98	588 reads
A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness	3.69	514 reads
The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri	4	166 reads
The Wisdom of Crowds Joe Abercrombie	4.54	187 reads
The Trials of Morrigan Crow Jessica Townsend	4.36	160 reads
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison	4.14	318 reads
Wizard And Glass Stephen King	4.12	475 reads
Poison Study Maria V. Snyder	3.84	202 reads
Love You Forever Robert Munsch	4.17	121 reads
The Black Prism Brent Weeks	4.14	376 reads
Autobiography of Red Anne Carson	4	69 reads
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman	4.3	504 reads
They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera	3.75	587 reads
Insurgent Veronica Roth	3.62	1,147 reads
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Ed Catmull Amy Wallace	4.32	224 reads
Night Watch Terry Pratchett	4.42	309 reads
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson	3.91	67 reads
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov	4.31	117 reads
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky	4.43	98 reads
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon	4.13	105 reads
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson	4.23	451 reads
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho Sappho Anne Carson (Translator)	4.34	52 reads
The Warm Hands of Ghosts Katherine Arden	3.95	49 reads
Servant of the Empire Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurts	4.27	94 reads
Radiance Grace Draven	3.78	126 reads
The Engineer Will Wight	4.44	41 reads
Unwind Neal Shusterman	4	231 reads
God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert	3.77	483 reads
Three Body Problem Collection Cixin Liu	3.68	26 reads
Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson	4.65	122 reads
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway	3.87	265 reads
All About Love bell hooks	3.75	145 reads
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Anthony Bonner (Translator) Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)	3.57	433 reads
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner	4.27	39 reads
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix	3.8	478 reads
The Fires of Heaven Robert Jordan	4.08	620 reads
Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan	4.03	591 reads
The Light Pirate Lily Brooks-Dalton	3.99	41 reads
Donde los árboles cantan Laura Gallego García	3.78	35 reads
Cleanness Garth Greenwell	4	22 reads
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth Andrew Joseph White	4.53	41 reads
White Night Jim Butcher	4.22	391 reads
Twilight Stephenie Meyer	2.89	2,116 reads
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare	3.48	1,530 reads
New and Selected Poems, Volume One Mary Oliver	4.73	24 reads
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick	4.48	120 reads
Dry Neal Shusterman Jarrod Shusterman	3.99	78 reads
Men at Arms Terry Pratchett	4.36	366 reads
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel), Vol. 1 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù	4.38	79 reads
Too Like the Lightning Ada Palmer	3.81	132 reads
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss	3.92	440 reads
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders	3.99	64 reads
The Painted Man Peter V. Brett	4.15	292 reads
Demian Hermann Hesse	3.78	39 reads
The One John Marrs	4.01	256 reads
A Soul to Guide Opal Reyne	4.23	13 reads
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.38	208 reads
Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko	4.05	111 reads