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
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	4.15	284 reads
Anathem Neal Stephenson	4.18	264 reads
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell	4.02	297 reads
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.9	658 reads
The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	3.74	548 reads
Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.34	416 reads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain	4.01	489 reads
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.93	570 reads
The Will of the Many James Islington	4.55	347 reads
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger	3.92	653 reads
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers	4.36	406 reads
The Overstory Richard Powers	4.08	255 reads
Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery	4.42	70 reads
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis	4.1	543 reads
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.9	437 reads
Wonder R.J. Palacio	4.15	396 reads
Vampire Academy Richelle Mead	3.7	328 reads
The World According to Garp John Irving	4	152 reads
If We Were Villains M.L. Rio	3.95	415 reads
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh	3.75	468 reads
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King	4.34	534 reads
I Am Legend Richard Matheson	3.93	461 reads
The Assassin's Blade Sarah J. Maas	4.03	517 reads
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde	3.91	233 reads
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell	3.98	242 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.21	1,010 reads
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein	3.69	424 reads
1Q84 Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin (Translator) Philip Gabriel	3.67	389 reads
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.83	224 reads
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt	3.81	199 reads
The Host Stephenie Meyer	3.59	443 reads
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami	4.1	427 reads
White Oleander Janet Fitch	3.87	119 reads
Royal Assassin Robin Hobb	4.25	560 reads
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind John E. Woods (Translator)	3.91	479 reads
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy	3.69	172 reads
Crown of Midnight Sarah J. Maas	4.25	805 reads
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.21	755 reads
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	3.98	505 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.78	595 reads
Memories of Ice Steven Erikson	4.55	218 reads
Cinder Marissa Meyer	3.97	652 reads
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett	4.11	402 reads
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	4.04	805 reads
Light from Uncommon Stars Ryka Aoki Cindy Kay	4.11	224 reads
Misery Stephen King	4.11	676 reads
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury	3.98	513 reads
A Memory of Light Brandon Sanderson Robert Jordan	4.6	372 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.14	469 reads
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr	4.26	272 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.26	422 reads
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck	3.79	1,620 reads
Alanna: The First Adventure Tamora Pierce	4.1	190 reads
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll	3.89	702 reads
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy	4.48	1,280 reads
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.26	227 reads
Wool Hugh Howey	4.11	759 reads
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon	4.2	220 reads
Beach Read Emily Henry	3.94	697 reads
Warbreaker Brandon Sanderson	4.17	955 reads
Normal People Sally Rooney	3.61	999 reads
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie	4.25	430 reads
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle	3.76	984 reads
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Justin O'Brien (Translator)	4.09	204 reads
Death's End Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	4.36	560 reads
Hamlet William Shakespeare Millôr Fernandes (Translator)	4.03	926 reads
Clockwork Princess Cassandra Clare	4.41	308 reads
A Court of Wings and Ruin Sarah J. Maas	4.2	1,130 reads
Emma Jane Austen Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)	3.94	537 reads
Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel	4.01	617 reads
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster	4.24	340 reads
I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman Ros Schwartz (Translator)	4.32	159 reads
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	3.97	277 reads
The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater	3.97	394 reads
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	4.2	127 reads
The Foxhole Court Nora Sakavic	3.56	129 reads
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson	4.01	479 reads
Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson	4.25	279 reads
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke	3.95	453 reads
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing	4.49	155 reads
Blindness José Saramago Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)	3.99	281 reads
Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie	4.28	590 reads
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.82	861 reads
Fangirl Rainbow Rowell	3.91	518 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.32	431 reads
Redwall Brian Jacques	3.97	255 reads
The Humans Matt Haig	3.88	239 reads
The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green	4.38	248 reads
Loveless Alice Oseman	4.18	186 reads
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Manheim (Translator)	4.14	233 reads
Demon in White Christopher Ruocchio	4.65	91 reads
The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne	4.54	110 reads
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman	4.19	727 reads
Empire of Silence Christopher Ruocchio	4	252 reads
The Godfather Mario Puzo	4.34	297 reads
We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor	4.13	600 reads
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Diana Lewis Burgin (Translator)	4.15	381 reads
House of Earth and Blood Sarah J. Maas	4.28	548 reads
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins	3.7	752 reads
The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez	4.22	102 reads