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
I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.07	665 reads
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré	4.02	128 reads
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.04	436 reads
The Way of Shadows Brent Weeks	4	287 reads
The Cider House Rules Irving, John	4.12	104 reads
Pet Sematary Stephen King	3.95	641 reads
I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson	4.13	149 reads
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens	4.04	736 reads
Hatchet Gary Paulsen	3.59	368 reads
Golden Son Pierce Brown	4.43	919 reads
The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa Philip Gabriel (Translator)	4.29	130 reads
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert	3.78	990 reads
When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Adrian Nathan West (Translator)	4	99 reads
John Dies at the End David Wong Jason Pargin	3.66	166 reads
One Dark Window Rachel Gillig	4.1	276 reads
The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper	3.95	71 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	3.68	1,017 reads
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf	3.74	217 reads
'Salem's Lot Stephen King	3.85	644 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
The Autumn Republic Brian McClellan	4.35	136 reads
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel	3.85	145 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
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg	4.2	142 reads
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson	4.45	464 reads
If I Stay Gayle Forman	3.59	321 reads
The Crimson Campaign Brian McClellan	4.27	177 reads
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng	4	595 reads
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.16	1,038 reads
Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.28	266 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Hwang Bo-Reum Shanna Tan (Translator)	4.06	93 reads
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Rutherford (Translator)	3.81	288 reads
Iron Widow Xiran Jay Zhao	4	315 reads
Sweet Bean Paste Durian Sukegawa Alison Watts (Translator)	4.19	83 reads
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson	4.03	53 reads
An Ember in the Ashes Sabaa Tahir	4.15	327 reads
The Time Machine H. G. Wells	3.68	711 reads
The Gifts of Imperfection Brené Brown	4.06	141 reads
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection J. K. Rowling	4.58	84 reads
Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros	4	915 reads
Changes Jim Butcher	4.52	291 reads
One Last Stop Casey McQuiston	3.95	342 reads
A Deadly Education Naomi Novik	3.97	489 reads
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	4.29	436 reads
Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks	4.01	191 reads
No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Donald Keene (Translator)	3.86	378 reads
Assassin's Fate Robin Hobb	4.62	135 reads
The Gunslinger Stephen King	3.62	1,015 reads
The Wisdom of Crowds Joe Abercrombie	4.53	153 reads
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	4.03	136 reads
The Trial Franz Kafka Willa Muir (Translator) Edwin Muir (Translator)	3.97	387 reads
The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri	4.03	145 reads
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro	4.2	352 reads
Wizard And Glass Stephen King	4.1	400 reads
The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe	4.56	17 reads
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison	4.17	264 reads
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank	4.02	1,133 reads
Insurgent Veronica Roth	3.61	975 reads
Artificial Condition Martha Wells	4.17	1,125 reads
Heir to the Empire Timothy Zahn	4.08	298 reads
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher	4.14	214 reads
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky	4.4	83 reads
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.55	151 reads
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse	4	147 reads
The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle	3.87	170 reads
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon	4.13	93 reads
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov	4.29	93 reads
The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey	3.85	97 reads
The Black Prism Brent Weeks	4.08	304 reads
Night Watch Terry Pratchett	4.41	253 reads
The Grace of Kings Ken Liu	3.69	167 reads
Mort Terry Pratchett	4.06	684 reads
Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist Ebba Segerberg (Translator)	3.89	103 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson	4.23	454 reads
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki	4	132 reads
Les Miserables Victor Hugo	4.34	26 reads
Beartown Fredrik Backman	4.34	312 reads
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy	4.05	162 reads
Contact Carl Sagan	4.09	285 reads
Jade City Fonda Lee	4.1	530 reads
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	4.42	323 reads
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Stanley Corngold (Translator)	3.79	938 reads
The Warm Hands of Ghosts Katherine Arden	3.94	37 reads
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	4.5	38 reads
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Jessica Townsend	4.32	125 reads
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Neal Stephenson	4.03	254 reads
The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie	4.1	888 reads
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen	3.82	291 reads
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner	4.24	30 reads
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne	3.33	81 reads
The Fires of Heaven Robert Jordan	4.09	521 reads
Donde los árboles cantan Laura Gallego García	3.78	35 reads
Dry Neal Shusterman Jarrod Shusterman	4.02	69 reads
Under the Whispering Door TJ Klune	4.07	374 reads
White Night Jim Butcher	4.22	317 reads
The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang	4.2	357 reads
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick	4.54	96 reads
Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan	4.04	495 reads