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.

A People's History of the United States

1980 • 514 Readers • 642 pages 4.2

The Dark Forest

#2 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

2008 • 1,077 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

We Are Legion

#1 of 5 in Bobiverse

2016 • 948 Readers • 299 pages 4.1

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

#0 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2020 • 1,221 Readers • 528 pages 3.7

Small Gods

#13 of 41 in Discworld

1992 • 530 Readers • 388 pages 4.3

Empire of Silence

#1 of 7 in The Sun Eater

2018 • 814 Readers • 624 pages 4

Novecento. Un monologo

1994 • 40 Readers • 62 pages 4.3

The Raven Boys

#1 of 4 in The Raven Cycle

2012 • 819 Readers • 468 pages 4

Anxious People

2019 • 989 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

The Love Hypothesis

2021 • 1,067 Readers • 383 pages 3.9

Howling Dark

#2 of 7 in The Sun Eater

1950 • 245 Readers • 688 pages 4.5

Last Argument of Kings

#3 of 3 in The First Law

2008 • 778 Readers • 642 pages 4.3

Memoirs of a Geisha

1997 • 965 Readers • 435 pages 3.9

Never Let Me Go

2000 • 1,785 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

On the Road

Duluoz Legend

1955 • 779 Readers • 254 pages 3.3

The Well of Ascension

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

2007 • 2,078 Readers • 624 pages 4.3

The Tale of Despereaux

2003 • 222 Readers • 267 pages 3.9

Wolf Hall

#1 of 3 in Thomas Cromwell

2009 • 555 Readers • 26 pages 3.9

Ficciones

1944 • 322 Readers • 192 pages 4.2

The Neverending Story

1979 • 477 Readers • 445 pages 4.1

Blindness

#1 of 2 in Blindness

1995 • 650 Readers • 349 pages 4

In Memoriam

2023 • 217 Readers • 386 pages 4.5

The Humans

2013 • 482 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

The Poppy War

#1 of 3 in The Poppy War

2018 • 1,978 Readers • 544 pages 4

Homegoing

2016 • 709 Readers • 468 pages 4.5

Fangirl

#1 of 2 in Fangirl

2001 • 755 Readers • 406 pages 3.9

The Color Purple

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

1976 • 964 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

Demon in White

#3 of 7 in The Sun Eater

2020 • 185 Readers • 1,085 pages 4.7

The Spear Cuts Through Water

2022 • 516 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

The Horse and His Boy

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

1954 • 640 Readers • 250 pages 3.8

House of Earth and Blood

#1 of 3 in Crescent City

2014 • 1,230 Readers • 803 pages 4.3

The Master and Margarita

1966 • 987 Readers • 424 pages 4.1

Fight Club

#1 of 2 in Fight Club

1996 • 1,218 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

Vicious

#1 of 3 in Villains

2013 • 1,297 Readers • 366 pages 4

Middlemarch

18 • 480 Readers • 810 pages 4.2

The Heart's Invisible Furies

2017 • 329 Readers • 959 pages 4.5

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

1959 • 382 Readers • 270 pages 4.5

The Colour of Magic

#1 of 41 in Discworld

1983 • 1,510 Readers • 292 pages 3.7

Witches Abroad

#12 of 41 in Discworld

1991 • 335 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

Uzumaki

#1 of 3 in Uzumaki

1999 • 407 Readers • 648 pages 4.4

Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

#1 of 2 in Whistle Stop, AL

1987 • 281 Readers • 391 pages 4.2

Eleanor & Park

2012 • 872 Readers • 335 pages 3.7

Angels & Demons

#1 of 6 in Robert Langdon

1980 • 1,634 Readers • 736 pages 3.6

Middlesex

649 Readers 4.1

The Player of Games

#2 of 10 in Culture

1988 • 439 Readers • 309 pages 4.2

Love, Theoretically

2022 • 586 Readers • 389 pages 4.1

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

#1 of 2 in Charlie Bucket

1964 • 788 Readers • 174 pages 4.1

One Dark Window

#1 of 2 in The Shepherd King

2022 • 843 Readers • 421 pages 4.1

City of Bones

#1 of 6 in The Mortal Instruments

1999 • 1,352 Readers • 485 pages 3.6

'Salem's Lot

1975 • 1,012 Readers • 668 pages 3.9

The Clan of the Cave Bear

#1 of 6 in Earth's Children

1980 • 255 Readers • 64 pages 3.9

The Dark is Rising

#2 of 5 in The Dark Is Rising

1973 • 111 Readers • 244 pages 3.9

The Shadow of the Torturer

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1980 • 511 Readers • 276 pages 3.7

Wizard of Oz.

#1 of 14 in Oz

1900 • 499 Readers • 160 pages 3.8

At Swim, Two Boys

2001 • 44 Readers • 576 pages 4.3

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

6 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 683 Readers • 756 pages 4.4

Strange the Dreamer

#1 of 2 in Strange the Dreamer

2016 • 663 Readers • 544 pages 4.3

The Autumn Republic

#3 of 3 in Powder Mage

2015 • 201 Readers • 582 pages 4.4

Tehanu

#4 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1990 • 232 Readers • 294 pages 3.9

The Ballad of Never After

#2 of 3 in Once Upon a Broken Heart

2022 • 387 Readers • 403 pages 4.3

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

#3 of 5 in Secret Projects

2023 • 896 Readers • 480 pages 4.4

Assassin's Quest

#3 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1997 • 671 Readers • 1,154 pages 4.2

Sense and Sensibility

1811 • 935 Readers • 432 pages 3.8

Pet Sematary

1983 • 992 Readers • 388 pages 3.9

The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

#1 of 2 in Don Quijote de la Mancha

1605 • 891 Readers • 1,023 pages 3.8

Housekeeping

1980 • 150 Readers • 219 pages 4

Daughter of the Empire

#1 of 3 in The Empire Trilogy

1987 • 229 Readers • 436 pages 4.2

The Crimson Campaign

#2 of 3 in Powder Mage

2014 • 259 Readers • 608 pages 4.3

Network Effect

#5 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

2020 • 936 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

Malibu Rising

Reidverse

1988 • 879 Readers • 369 pages 4

The Witches

1976 • 420 Readers • 199 pages 4

The Way of Shadows

#1 of 4 in Night Angel

2008 • 592 Readers • 395 pages 4

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

2022 • 324 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

The Time Machine

1894 • 1,150 Readers • 140 pages 3.7

Just Kids

2010 • 389 Readers • 304 pages 4.2

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 875 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

The Wicked King

#2 of 3 in The Folk of the Air

2019 • 826 Readers • 322 pages 4.1

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

1974 • 113 Readers 4.5

Dune Messiah

#2 of 8 in Dune

1965 • 1,427 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

A Deadly Education

#1 of 3 in The Scholomance

2020 • 1,177 Readers • 236 pages 4

A Christmas Carol

#1 of 1 in The Christmas Books of Charles Dickens

195 • 984 Readers • 112 pages 4

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

2020 • 460 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

The Sea of Monsters

#2 of 7 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2006 • 1,444 Readers • 288 pages 4

If I Stay

#1 of 2 in If I Stay

2009 • 433 Readers • 261 pages 3.6

The Jasmine Throne

#1 of 3 in Burning Kingdoms

2021 • 533 Readers • 512 pages 4

The Gunslinger

#1 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1976 • 1,620 Readers • 238 pages 3.6

The Wisdom of Crowds

#3 of 3 in The Age of Madness

2015 • 281 Readers • 560 pages 4.5

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,508 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

Heir to the Empire

#1 of 3 in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

1991 • 447 Readers • 404 pages 4.1

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

2012 • 307 Readers • 233 pages 4.3

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#0 in Oprah's

2012 • 514 Readers • 338 pages 3.8

From hell

#1 of 1 in From Hell

1991 • 186 Readers • 8 pages 4.3

Wizard And Glass

#4 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1997 • 555 Readers • 845 pages 4.1

Nona the Ninth

#3 of 4 in The Locked Tomb

2022 • 464 Readers • 480 pages 4.3

John Dies at the End

#1 of 4 in John Dies at the End

2007 • 359 Readers • 362 pages 3.7

Little Fires Everywhere

2017 • 1,159 Readers • 370 pages 4