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 People's History of the United States Howard Zinn Kathy Emery Ellen Gordon Reeves	4.23	184 reads
The Dark Forest Cixin Liu Joel Martinsen (Translator)	4.25	708 reads
We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor	4.13	600 reads
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins	3.7	752 reads
Small Gods Terry Pratchett	4.28	344 reads
Empire of Silence Christopher Ruocchio	4	252 reads
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	3.97	277 reads
Novecento. Un monologo Alessandro Baricco	4.3	35 reads
The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater	3.97	394 reads
Anxious People Fredrik Backman Neil Smith (Translator)	4.27	447 reads
The Love Hypothesis Ali Hazelwood	3.88	723 reads
Howling Dark Christopher Ruocchio	4.48	141 reads
Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie	4.28	590 reads
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.86	484 reads
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden	3.94	603 reads
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.82	861 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.32	431 reads
The Well of Ascension Brandon Sanderson	4.32	1,679 reads
The Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo	3.9	169 reads
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel	3.94	204 reads
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	4.2	127 reads
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Manheim (Translator)	4.14	233 reads
Blindness José Saramago Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)	3.99	281 reads
In Memoriam Alice Winn Bruno Álvarez Herrero (Translator)	4.54	58 reads
The Humans Matt Haig	3.88	239 reads
The Poppy War R. F. Kuang	4.02	783 reads
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.5	273 reads
Fangirl Rainbow Rowell	3.91	518 reads
The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.17	415 reads
Demon in White Christopher Ruocchio	4.65	91 reads
The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez	4.22	102 reads
The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis	3.76	539 reads
House of Earth and Blood Sarah J. Maas	4.28	548 reads
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Diana Lewis Burgin (Translator)	4.15	381 reads
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy Jostein Gaarder Paulette Møller (Translator)	3.66	197 reads
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk	4.09	725 reads
Vicious V. E. Schwab	4.05	571 reads
Middlemarch George Eliot	4.16	125 reads
The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne	4.54	110 reads
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing	4.49	155 reads
The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett	3.73	917 reads
Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett	4.1	243 reads
Uzumaki Junji Ito Yuji Oniki (Translator)	4.35	277 reads
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg	4.2	142 reads
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Annelies Jorna (Translator) Ineke Lenting (Translator)	3.71	616 reads
Angels & Demons Dan Brown	3.59	1,382 reads
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.13	316 reads
The Player of Games Iain M. Banks	4.16	289 reads
Love, Theoretically Ali Hazelwood	4.05	327 reads
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.06	672 reads
One Dark Window Rachel Gillig	4.1	276 reads
City of Bones Cassandra Clare	3.6	987 reads
'Salem's Lot Stephen King	3.85	644 reads
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel	3.85	145 reads
The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper	3.95	71 reads
The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe	3.69	171 reads
Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum Ella Okstad W. w. Denslow Michael Patrick Hearn Dynos Design Anne Hathaway Tom Sinnickson Germán Vives Olimpia Zagnoli WIlliam Wallace Denslow Robert Ingpen Rosa María Borràs Montané Cristina Rodríguez Fischer Rebecca Burns W W Denslow Fabien Clavel Jean-Philippe Taboulot Yvette Métral Dyno Designs Monique Luiken Jeroen van Luiken-Bakker Baum L Frank Baum jaime arbe Séamus Ó Coileáin Jose perez monica alonso Yenis Adelaira Ochoa Marc Cornelis Wirton Arvott	3.81	364 reads
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill	4.32	12 reads
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story Douglas Adams	4.41	448 reads
Strange the Dreamer Laini Taylor	4.26	252 reads
The Autumn Republic Brian McClellan	4.35	136 reads
Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin	3.93	133 reads
The Ballad of Never After Stephanie Garber	4.31	179 reads
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson	4.45	464 reads
Assassin's Quest Robin Hobb	4.16	488 reads
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Sam Ngo	3.83	546 reads
Pet Sematary Stephen King	3.95	641 reads
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Rutherford (Translator)	3.81	288 reads
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson	4.03	53 reads
Daughter of the Empire Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurts	4.17	105 reads
The Crimson Campaign Brian McClellan	4.27	177 reads
Network Effect Martha Wells	4.4	673 reads
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.04	436 reads
The Witches Roald Dahl	4.01	344 reads
The Way of Shadows Brent Weeks	4	287 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Hwang Bo-Reum Shanna Tan (Translator)	4.06	93 reads
The Time Machine H. G. Wells	3.68	711 reads
Just Kids Patti Smith	4.17	180 reads
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	4.29	436 reads
The Wicked King Holly Black	4.1	553 reads
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	4.5	38 reads
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert	3.78	990 reads
A Deadly Education Naomi Novik	3.97	489 reads
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens	4.04	736 reads
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher	4.14	214 reads
The Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan	4	1,269 reads
When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Adrian Nathan West (Translator)	4	99 reads
If I Stay Gayle Forman	3.59	321 reads
The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri	4.03	145 reads
The Gunslinger Stephen King	3.62	1,015 reads
The Wisdom of Crowds Joe Abercrombie	4.53	153 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	3.68	1,017 reads
Heir to the Empire Timothy Zahn	4.08	298 reads
The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa Philip Gabriel (Translator)	4.29	130 reads
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	3.81	312 reads
From hell Alan Moore	4.26	99 reads
Wizard And Glass Stephen King	4.1	400 reads
Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.28	266 reads
John Dies at the End David Wong Jason Pargin	3.66	166 reads
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng	4	595 reads