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 Scanner Darkly

1977 • 429 Readers • 189 pages 3.8

Turtles All the Way Down

2017 • 745 Readers • 286 pages 3.9

The Bonehunters

#6 of 16 in Malazan

2006 • 219 Readers • 1,203 pages 4.5

The Dragon Republic

#2 of 3 in The Poppy War

2019 • 701 Readers • 672 pages 4.2

Me Talk Pretty One Day

2000 • 542 Readers • 300 pages 4

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

#2 of 2 in Cerulean Chronicles

2024 • 325 Readers • 416 pages 4.2

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

#2.5 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

2014 • 613 Readers • 176 pages 3.7

Every Heart a Doorway

#1 of 9 in Wayward Children

2016 • 775 Readers • 174 pages 3.9

The Return of the Native

1878 • 80 Readers • 314 pages 3.8

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

1979 • 453 Readers • 260 pages 4.1

Land of the Beautiful Dead

2015 • 18 Readers • 540 pages 4.3

Anansi Boys

2 American Gods

2005 • 698 Readers • 376 pages 4

Scarlet

#2 of 4 in The Lunar Chronicles

2013 • 559 Readers • 512 pages 4

Winnie The Pooh

40 Readers • 88 pages 4.4

Red Dragon

469 Readers 3.9

Charlotte's Web

923 Readers 3.9

Magician

#1 of 4 in The Riftwar Saga

1982 • 113 Readers • 681 pages 4.2

Poison Study

#1 of 6 in Poison Study

2005 • 380 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

These Broken Stars

#1 of 3 in Starbound

2013 • 140 Readers • 384 pages 3.7

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

#1 of 3 in The Indian Lake Trilogy

2021 • 437 Readers • 416 pages 3.7

The Sun Also Rises

1926 • 695 Readers • 264 pages 3.6

Still Life

2021 • 119 Readers • 464 pages 4.3

Watership Down

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

1972 • 23 Readers • 474 pages 4

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

#1-12 of 12 in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1891 • 519 Readers • 333 pages 4.3

The Snow Leopard

1978 • 76 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

The Curse of Chalion

#1 of 4 in World of the Five Gods (Publication)

2001 • 356 Readers 4.2

The Book of Azrael

#1 of 4 in Gods and Monsters

2022 • 74 Readers • 752 pages 3.8

A Raisin in the Sun

1958 • 165 Readers • 162 pages 3.9

Dawn

429 Readers 4

Winter's Tale

1983 • 95 Readers • 708 pages 3.8

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

2021 • 158 Readers • 816 pages 4.5

The Son of Neptune

#2 of 5 in The Heroes of Olympus

2011 • 720 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

Humankind: A Hopeful History

2019 • 218 Readers • 498 pages 4.2

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

2016 • 10 Readers • 440 pages 4.8

The Good Earth

#1 of 3 in House of Earth

1931 • 240 Readers • 385 pages 3.8

Night Train To Lisbon

2004 • 15 Readers • 436 pages 3.5

The Dark Tower Series: Books 1-7

#1-7 of 7 in The Dark Tower

2005 • 14 Readers • 3,914 pages 4.6

Olive Kitteridge

#1 of 2 in Olive Kitteridge

2008 • 253 Readers • 337 pages 4.1

The Obsession

2016 • 66 Readers • 464 pages 3.9

All the Lovers in the Night

2011 • 233 Readers • 220 pages 3.6

Servant of the Empire

#2 of 3 in The Empire Trilogy

1990 • 111 Readers • 701 pages 4.3

The Monster at the End of This Book

Big Little Golden Books

1971 • 92 Readers • 24 pages 4.4

The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

#1 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen

2014 • 37 Readers • 11,398 pages 4.6

Looking for Alaska

2005 • 1,122 Readers • 263 pages 3.7

A Soul to Keep

#1 of 8 in Duskwalker Brides

2022 • 142 Readers • 544 pages 3.7

The One

2016 • 418 Readers • 291 pages 4

Kings of the Wyld

#1 of 3 in The Band

2017 • 816 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

Lovely War

2019 • 205 Readers • 480 pages 4.2

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940 • 544 Readers • 484 pages 3.9

Wolfsong

#1 of 4 in Green Creek

2016 • 370 Readers • 510 pages 4.1

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

#1 of 3 in Capitaine Nemo

1866 • 632 Readers • 394 pages 3.6

Skin Game

#15 of 19 in The Dresden Files

2014 • 347 Readers • 610 pages 4.5

Cover 6

#1-3 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

52 Readers • 339 pages 3.7

Angle of Repose

1971 • 89 Readers • 482 pages 4.2

The Fires of Heaven

#5 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

1993 • 665 Readers • 684 pages 4.1

Confessions

2008 • 338 Readers 4

The Complete Maus

1994 • 673 Readers • 295 pages 4.7

The Hound of the Baskervilles

#5 of 10 in Sherlock Holmes

1901 • 549 Readers • 188 pages 4.2

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 608 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

Donde los árboles cantan

2011 • 48 Readers • 480 pages 3.8

Lord of Chaos

#6 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

1994 • 641 Readers • 1,031 pages 4

Dry

2018 • 156 Readers • 390 pages 4

Under the Whispering Door

2021 • 918 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

The Blue Sword

167 Readers 3.9

Men at Arms

#15 of 41 in Discworld

1993 • 391 Readers • 432 pages 4.4

New and Selected Poems, Volume One

#1 of 1 in New and Selected Poems

2005 • 46 Readers 4.7

The Blacktongue Thief

#1 of 1 in Blacktongue

2021 • 568 Readers • 413 pages 4.1

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

1996 • 84 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

Cleanness

2020 • 69 Readers • 225 pages 3.9

The Cat in the Hat

#1 of 2 in The Cat in the Hat

1957 • 405 Readers • 61 pages 3.9

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

2009 • 235 Readers • 338 pages 4.5

Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There

#2 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1866 • 205 Readers • 112 pages 3.9

Childhood's End

1953 • 691 Readers • 212 pages 4

Sharpe's Rifles

#6 of 23 in Sharpe

1988 • 31 Readers 4.2

The Measure

2022 • 413 Readers • 10h 57m 3.8

White Night

#9 of 19 in The Dresden Files

2007 • 387 Readers • 376 pages 4.2

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel), Vol. 2

#2 of 5 in Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel)

2016 • 66 Readers 4.5

Three Kingdoms

2005 • 2 Readers • 2,339 pages

The Thief Lord

2000 • 147 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

Starship Troopers

Heinlein's Juveniles

1959 • 677 Readers • 353 pages 3.7

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

2016 • 915 Readers • 288 pages 4.6

Shoe Dog

2016 • 454 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

A Clash of Kings

#2 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

1998 • 1,889 Readers • 770 pages 4.4

A Soul to Guide

#4 of 8 in Duskwalker Brides

2023 • 22 Readers • 642 pages 4.4

Spirits Abroad

2020 • 40 Readers • 338 pages 4.3

Roadside Picnic

1972 • 530 Readers • 226 pages 4

The Rise of Endymion

#4 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1997 • 288 Readers • 592 pages 4

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

#1 of 2 in Rules for Life

2018 • 525 Readers • 477 pages 3.5

In A Sunburned Country

2000 • 174 Readers • 596 pages 4

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1962 • 1,008 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

Hijab Butch Blues

2023 • 107 Readers • 305 pages 4.4

Bookshops & Bonedust

#0 of 2 in Legends & Lattes

2023 • 838 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

Notes from Underground

1847 • 656 Readers • 149 pages 4.1

The Seven Year Slip

2023 • 502 Readers • 326 pages 4.2

Heartstopper: Volume Four

#4 of 9 in Osemanverse

2018 • 520 Readers • 384 pages 4.5

Fevre Dream

#1 of 8 in Fevre Dream

1982 • 170 Readers • 461 pages 3.7

Ship of Fools

2001 • 81 Readers • 392 pages 3.4

Up in the Old Hotel

1992 • 25 Readers • 716 pages 5

Of War and Ruin

#3 of 5 in The Bound and the Broken

2023 • 101 Readers • 1,016 pages 4.6