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
The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen Steven Erikson	4.6	8 reads
Servant of the Empire Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurts	4.3	79 reads
The Obsession Nora Roberts	3.92	33 reads
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	4.5	24 reads
Charlotte's Web E.B. White	3.94	787 reads
His Majesty's Dragon Naomi Novik	3.93	126 reads
Wolfsong TJ Klune	4.05	162 reads
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky	4.04	186 reads
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Anthony Bonner (Translator) Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)	3.57	372 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.66	401 reads
Three Body Problem Collection Three Body Problem Collection Cixin Liu	3.72	22 reads
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner	4.24	30 reads
The Dark Tower Stephen King	4.18	321 reads
The Fires of Heaven Robert Jordan	4.09	521 reads
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway	3.86	229 reads
Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan	4.04	495 reads
Dry Neal Shusterman Jarrod Shusterman	4.02	69 reads
Donde los árboles cantan Laura Gallego García	3.78	35 reads
Un Mundo Feliz Aldous Huxley	3.66	26 reads
Under the Whispering Door TJ Klune	4.07	374 reads
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick	4.54	96 reads
White Night Jim Butcher	4.22	317 reads
Heartstopper: Volume Four Alice Oseman	4.55	448 reads
Men at Arms Terry Pratchett	4.38	305 reads
Bunny Mona Awad	3.57	419 reads
The Blue Sword Robin McKinley	3.93	75 reads
The False Prince Jennifer A. Nielsen	4.02	106 reads
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders	4.05	52 reads
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss	3.92	363 reads
New and Selected Poems, Volume One Mary Oliver	4.67	17 reads
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson	3.71	497 reads
Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll	3.91	162 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf Kimberly Lemming	3.89	43 reads
The Time Keeper Mitch Albom	3.68	67 reads
Sharpe's Rifles Bernard Cornwell	4.15	26 reads
The Measure Nikki Erlick	3.8	161 reads
The One John Marrs	4.02	223 reads
The Shadow Rising Robert Jordan	4.24	604 reads
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.71	426 reads
Three Kingdoms Moss Roberts	0	0 reads
The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke	4.06	111 reads
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel), Vol. 2 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù	4.46	40 reads
All the Hidden Paths Foz Meadows	4.5	6 reads
Shoe Dog Phil Knight	4.34	263 reads
The Unmaking of June Farrow Adrienne Young	4.1	79 reads
Rogue Protocol Martha Wells	4.15	955 reads
A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin	4.35	1,532 reads
The Seven Year Slip Ashley Poston	4.24	193 reads
Roadside Picnic Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky Olena Bormashenko (Translator)	3.98	249 reads
Spirits Abroad Zen Cho	4.33	11 reads
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4.02	115 reads
Love You Forever Robert Munsch	4.19	78 reads
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Jordan B. Peterson	3.46	277 reads
The Serpent & the Wings of Night Carissa Broadbent	4.04	313 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon Kimberly Lemming	3.86	117 reads
Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.07	245 reads
Of War and Ruin Ryan Cahill	4.63	29 reads
Endymion Dan Simmons	4.09	215 reads
Ship of Fools Richard Paul Russo	3.38	31 reads
David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.97	214 reads
Life Ceremony Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.71	62 reads
Frankenstein Marry Shelley	3.25	2 reads
All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews	4.35	35 reads
Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell David Remnick	5	6 reads
Bookshops & Bonedust Travis Baldree	4.27	374 reads
Authority Jeff VanderMeer	3.41	337 reads
The Mistake Elle Kennedy	3.83	144 reads
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman	4.13	513 reads
They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera	3.74	497 reads
Starsight Brandon Sanderson	4.25	441 reads
Mrs Death Misses Death Salena Godden	3.42	14 reads
Daemon Daniel Suarez	3.96	208 reads
Dragon Rider Taran Matharu	3.68	15 reads
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Lulu Miller	4.05	115 reads
Unsouled Will Wight	3.84	256 reads
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe	4.36	138 reads
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan	3.82	253 reads
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Ed Catmull Amy Wallace	4.33	183 reads
Going Postal Terry Pratchett	4.36	338 reads
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens	3.88	30 reads
Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk	3.48	149 reads
Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson	4	12 reads
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)	4.16	29 reads
Batman: Year One Frank Miller David Mazzucchelli	4.07	36 reads
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne	3.76	72 reads
Heartless Marissa Meyer	3.81	165 reads
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Suleika Jaouad	4.45	43 reads
Muse of Nightmares Laini Taylor	4.32	146 reads
Bleak House Charles Dickens	4.04	77 reads
House of Suns Alastair Reynolds	4.21	146 reads
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie	3.79	80 reads
Revival Stephen King	3.69	193 reads
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck	3.98	74 reads
Yellowface R. F. Kuang	3.94	842 reads
Wrath John Gwynne	4.34	110 reads
Leviathan Falls James S. A. Corey	4.43	388 reads
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams	3.89	346 reads
The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4.02	236 reads
The Help Kathryn Stockett	4.17	622 reads
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann	4.14	261 reads