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
Roadside Picnic Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky Olena Bormashenko (Translator)	3.98	302 reads
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4	144 reads
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker	4.22	272 reads
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Jordan B. Peterson	3.46	318 reads
Permutation City Greg Egan	4.07	84 reads
Bookshops & Bonedust Travis Baldree	4.24	462 reads
Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Serge Shishkoff (Translator) Robert Teditorr Durgy	4.08	297 reads
The Stone Sky N.K. Jemisin	4.37	699 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon Kimberly Lemming	3.82	145 reads
Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis	3.81	186 reads
Ship of Fools Richard Paul Russo	3.4	36 reads
Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell David Remnick	5	6 reads
Of War and Ruin Ryan Cahill	4.54	34 reads
Pandora's Star Peter F. Hamilton	4.07	256 reads
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein	4.22	673 reads
Life Ceremony Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.78	76 reads
David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.99	245 reads
Underlord Will Wight	4.43	217 reads
Gemina Amie Kaufman Jay Kristoff	4.39	181 reads
Starsight Brandon Sanderson	4.25	525 reads
All the Hidden Paths Foz Meadows	4.5	7 reads
How to Sell a Haunted House Grady Hendrix	3.73	313 reads
The Selection Kiera Cass	3.65	609 reads
All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews	4.32	41 reads
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Miguel Ruiz ภัทริณี เจริญจินดา (Translator)	3.59	256 reads
Daemon Daniel Suarez	3.97	249 reads
Scythe Neal Shusterman	4.17	669 reads
Asunder Kerstin Hall	4.56	10 reads
Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica Sarah Moses (Translator)	3.72	485 reads
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death Maggie O'Farrell	4.21	59 reads
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan	3.78	303 reads
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Lulu Miller	4.04	135 reads
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow	3.9	58 reads
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	4.17	260 reads
Icebreaker Hannah Grace	3.59	397 reads
Lirael Garth Nix	4.25	238 reads
Muse of Nightmares Laini Taylor	4.35	161 reads
The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy Aylmer Maude (Translator) رضی هیرمند (Translator) Ευγενία Ζήκου (Translator)	4.11	263 reads
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri	4.18	35 reads
Going Postal Terry Pratchett	4.36	399 reads
Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson	4.07	16 reads
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill	4.32	16 reads
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within Becky Chambers	4.43	270 reads
Shoe Dog Phil Knight	4.37	319 reads
The Bonehunters Steven Erikson	4.5	179 reads
Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 Kamome Shirahama 白浜鴎 Stephen Kohler (Translator)	4.43	115 reads
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Suleika Jaouad	4.38	47 reads
Batman: Year One Frank Miller	4.07	54 reads
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne	3.79	73 reads
The Only One Left Riley Sager	3.93	393 reads
Towers of Midnight Robert Jordan Brandon Sanderson	4.48	443 reads
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré	4.07	232 reads
The Spellshop Sarah Beth Durst	4.03	116 reads
Yellowface R.F. Kuang	3.91	1,006 reads
White Fang Jack London	3.81	241 reads
The First to Die at the End Adam Silvera	4.08	89 reads
The Iliad Homer	3.89	110 reads
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.7	677 reads
The Queen of Attolia Megan Whalen Turner	4.06	112 reads
House of Suns Alastair Reynolds	4.2	178 reads
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie	3.69	103 reads
Fool's Errand Robin Hobb	4.28	226 reads
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen	3.86	353 reads
Revival Stephen King	3.7	239 reads
Starter Villain John Scalzi	4.05	409 reads
Wrath John Gwynne	4.28	124 reads
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas	4.5	639 reads
Fugitive Telemetry Martha Wells	4.19	696 reads
One Day David Nicholls	3.75	205 reads
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry	4.39	82 reads
The Help Kathryn Stockett	4.19	744 reads
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams	3.89	414 reads
The Snow Leopard Peter Matthiessen	3.97	20 reads
The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4	282 reads
The False Prince Jennifer A. Nielsen	4.03	120 reads
Bleak House Charles Dickens	4.02	92 reads
Mr. Monster Dan Wells	4.09	45 reads
Abhorsen Garth Nix	4.3	220 reads
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne	3.37	87 reads
The Mists Of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley	3.91	224 reads
The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones	3.78	290 reads
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers Jesse Q. Sutanto	4.04	196 reads
Somewhere Beyond the Sea TJ Klune	4.16	105 reads
Fool's Assassin Robin Hobb	4.41	209 reads
Batman: The Long Halloween Jeph Loeb	4.17	188 reads
The Fever Code James Dashner	3.94	93 reads
Part of Your World Abby Jimenez	4.25	283 reads
Coraline Neil Gaiman	4.08	999 reads
The Ever King L.J. Andrews	4.1	42 reads
The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin	4.01	251 reads
Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman	3.94	533 reads
Un Mundo Feliz Aldous Huxley	3.82	30 reads
Butcher & Blackbird Brynne Weaver	4.02	312 reads
The Dragon Republic R.F. Kuang	4.17	435 reads
Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson	4.15	206 reads
The Vanished Birds Simon Jimenez	3.88	51 reads
14 Peter Clines	3.85	156 reads
The Sunlit Man Brandon Sanderson	4.26	465 reads
The language of flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh	3.75	5 reads
Lightning Dean Koontz	3.94	66 reads