Prompts

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.

The Lord of the Rings

#1-3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,570 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

Dune

#1 of 8 in Dune

11 • 4,689 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

1984

1949 • 5,782 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 3,622 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

The Way of Kings

#1 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 2,950 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

Pride and Prejudice

Cozy Classics

1811 • 2,741 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

Mistborn: The Final Empire

#1 of 3 in The Mistborn Saga: The Original Trilogly

2006 • 3,509 Readers • 534 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1997 • 5,440 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

The Hobbit

Middle-earth Legendarium

1937 • 4,160 Readers • 10h 24m 4.3

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

2011 • 3,145 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

The Hunger Games

#1 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2008 • 4,202 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 3,821 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 2,558 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

The Song of Achilles

2011 • 2,816 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 3,278 Readers • 398 pages 4.4

The Lightning Thief

#1 of 7 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2000 • 2,353 Readers • 377 pages 4

Jane Eyre

1847 • 1,947 Readers • 580 pages 4

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

#3 of 8 in Harry Potter

8 • 4,153 Readers • 547 pages 4.4

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

1 • 2,701 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 3,661 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

2008 • 2,854 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

2001 • 2,613 Readers • 635 pages 4

The Book Thief

2005 • 2,282 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

The Two Towers

#2 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 2,201 Readers • 447 pages 4.4

And Then There Were None

1939 • 1,884 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 1,774 Readers • 481 pages 4.3

The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

#3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,399 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

1996 • 3,287 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

#4 of 8 in Harry Potter

19 • 4,000 Readers • 752 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

#5 of 8 in Harry Potter

8 • 3,829 Readers • 896 pages 4.3

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

#7 of 8 in Harry Potter

8 • 3,719 Readers • 784 pages 4.4

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 1,709 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

Words of Radiance

#2 of 10 in The Stormlight Archive

2012 • 1,783 Readers • 1,328 pages 4.7

A Court of Mist and Fury

#2 of 6 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2016 • 1,673 Readers • 659 pages 4.4

Circe

2018 • 2,802 Readers • 409 pages 4.2

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Reidverse

2017 • 2,598 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

The Count of Monte Cristo

2 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1830 • 1,805 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 2,877 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 3,238 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

Piranesi

2019 • 2,426 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

The Stand

1978 • 1,556 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.2

Slaughterhouse 5

Critical Insights

1968 • 2,384 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

Frankenstein

181 • 2,605 Readers • 353 pages 3.8

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

#6 of 8 in Harry Potter

8 • 3,745 Readers • 672 pages 4.4

The Catcher in the Rye

1951 • 2,942 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

Fourth Wing

#1 of 5 in The Empyrean

2023 • 2,677 Readers • 678 pages 4

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

2022 • 2,837 Readers • 482 pages 4.1

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,262 Readers • 340 pages 4

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 3,667 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

The Golden Compass

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1995 • 1,947 Readers • 399 pages 4

Gideon the Ninth

#1 of 4 in The Locked Tomb

2019 • 1,661 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Secret History

1992 • 2,009 Readers • 578 pages 4

The Night Circus

2011 • 1,979 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

Persuasion

1789 • 855 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

11/22/63

11 • 1,498 Readers • 849 pages 4.3

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

2015 • 2,257 Readers • 421 pages 4.4

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 1,788 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

East of Eden

1952 • 1,293 Readers • 601 pages 4.5

Crime and Punishment

19 • 2,054 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 9 in The Expanse

2011 • 2,026 Readers • 621 pages 4.2

The Little Prince

1 • 1,942 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

#2 of 8 in Harry Potter

1998 • 4,198 Readers • 332 pages 4.2

The Road

1974 • 1,963 Readers • 287 pages 4

A Little Life

2015 • 1,623 Readers • 720 pages 4.2

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 2,341 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

#1 of 2 in Aristotle and Dante

2012 • 952 Readers • 368 pages 4.2

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

19 • 1,794 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

Wuthering Heights

197 • 1,717 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

A Court of Thorns and Roses

#2 of 6 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2014 • 2,536 Readers • 440 pages 3.7

Jurassic Park

#1 of 2 in Jurassic Park

1967 • 1,463 Readers • 805 pages 4.1

Watership Down

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

1972 • 828 Readers • 478 pages 4.1

Six of Crows

#1 of 2 in Six of Crows

2001 • 2,177 Readers • 465 pages 4.3

The House in the Cerulean Sea

#1 of 2 in Cerulean Chronicles

2020 • 1,990 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Dracula

1897 • 2,151 Readers • 410 pages 3.9

Animal Farm

1945 • 4,078 Readers • 122 pages 4

Red Rising

#1 of 7 in Red Rising Saga

2014 • 2,733 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

The Midnight Library

2020 • 3,065 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Howl's Moving Castle

#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle

1986 • 1,265 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

The Eye of the World

#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

1990 • 1,948 Readers • 708 pages 4

Brave New World

1930 • 3,027 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1950 • 2,036 Readers • 146 pages 4

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1968 • 1,478 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

Little Women

#1 of 3 in Little Women

1848 • 1,553 Readers • 449 pages 3.9

Assassin's Apprentice

#1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1995 • 1,072 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

Rebecca

1938 • 847 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

The Brothers Karamazov

19 • 1,255 Readers • 796 pages 4.4

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

1999 • 1,717 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

Lolita

1954 • 1,586 Readers • 395 pages 3.9

Blood Meridian

1985 • 1,012 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

Children of Time

#1 of 3 in Children of Time

2015 • 1,639 Readers • 600 pages 4.3

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

2001 • 1,154 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

1890 • 2,021 Readers • 260 pages 4.1

Anne of Green Gables

#1 of 9 in Anne of Green Gables

1908 • 763 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#1 of 2 in Monk and Robot

2021 • 1,402 Readers • 160 pages 4.3

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2020 • 2,353 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Red, White & Royal Blue

2003 • 1,309 Readers • 432 pages 4

Throne of Glass

#1 of 7 in Throne of Glass

2012 • 1,640 Readers • 432 pages 3.9