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.

Books3,356

Answers7,797

Readers1,447

Details	Rating	Readers Count
A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles	4.23	420 reads
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.09	1,021 reads
The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon	4.08	484 reads
Recursion Blake Crouch	4.19	792 reads
Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston	4.02	849 reads
The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.2	686 reads
A Storm of Swords George R.R. Martin	4.54	1,357 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.06	1,722 reads
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton	3.95	836 reads
Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson	4.55	1,098 reads
Legends & Lattes Travis Baldree	4.15	1,138 reads
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho	3.48	1,663 reads
Eragon Christopher Paolini	3.62	1,219 reads
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke	3.98	526 reads
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.98	713 reads
The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern	3.97	375 reads
Matilda Roald Dahl	4.28	685 reads
Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson	4.47	795 reads
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	4	381 reads
It Stephen King	4.07	832 reads
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry	4.63	189 reads
Catching Fire Suzanne Collins	4.09	2,707 reads
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin	3.88	773 reads
The Last Olympian Rick Riordan	4.35	1,057 reads
Sabriel Garth Nix	4.11	322 reads
Neverwhere Neil Gaiman	4.11	872 reads
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Henning Koch (Translator)	4.37	679 reads
The Cruel Prince Holly Black	3.79	794 reads
Outlander Diana Gabaldon	3.9	504 reads
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown	3.55	1,736 reads
Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card	4.12	592 reads
The Lies of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch	4.27	874 reads
World War Z Max Brooks	3.91	827 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	4.1	313 reads
Harrow the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.18	406 reads
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin	4.06	621 reads
The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman	4	659 reads
Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover	4.43	897 reads
The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien	3.95	489 reads
The Hero of Ages Brandon Sanderson	4.57	1,518 reads
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer	4.27	312 reads
The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski	4.06	1,042 reads
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera Michael Henry Heim (Translator)	3.92	365 reads
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman	4.05	979 reads
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones James Clear	4.2	1,183 reads
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie	3.98	535 reads
Holes Louis Sachar	4	715 reads
Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll	3.99	544 reads
Carry On Rainbow Rowell	4.08	366 reads
Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo	4.43	749 reads
Kingdom of Ash Sarah J. Maas	4.54	466 reads
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	3.93	818 reads
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson	3.94	794 reads
Lord of the Flies William Golding	3.55	1,961 reads
Uprooted Naomi Novik	3.99	514 reads
Skyward Brandon Sanderson	4.41	594 reads
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers	4.13	795 reads
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer	4.58	176 reads
Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice	3.76	585 reads
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett	4.07	505 reads
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins	3.78	2,385 reads
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut	4.1	659 reads
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	3.94	1,248 reads
Stoner John Williams	4.49	333 reads
A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas	4.23	790 reads
The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman	4.09	740 reads
A Prayer For Owen Meany John Irving	4.1	199 reads
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl	4.25	713 reads
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon	3.81	1,065 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.93	340 reads
The Stranger Albert Camus Matthew Ward (Translator)	3.93	1,318 reads
The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis	3.85	689 reads
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	3.96	663 reads
The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss	4.39	1,092 reads
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.	3.94	274 reads
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin	4.19	375 reads
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini	4.31	518 reads
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson	4.17	749 reads
Empire of Storms Sarah J. Maas	4.46	550 reads
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine	4.16	463 reads
Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.06	757 reads
Jade Legacy Fonda Lee	4.62	196 reads
Heir of Fire Sarah J. Maas	4.3	716 reads
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	3.94	1,564 reads
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy	4	256 reads
Rhythm of War Brandon Sanderson	4.56	824 reads
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.1	403 reads
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens	4.08	887 reads
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Hilda Rosner (Translator)	3.94	709 reads
Seveneves Neal Stephenson	3.88	455 reads
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell	4.02	297 reads
Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.24	476 reads
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.9	437 reads
Heartstopper: Volume One Alice Oseman	4.42	792 reads
Vampire Academy Richelle Mead	3.7	328 reads
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis	4.1	543 reads
Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.34	416 reads
The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	3.74	548 reads
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah	4.31	423 reads
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger	3.92	653 reads