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.

Spirits Abroad

2020 • 40 Readers • 338 pages 4.3

Frankenstein

2019 • 2 Readers • 294 pages 3.3

Roadside Picnic

1972 • 530 Readers • 226 pages 4

The Seven Year Slip

2023 • 502 Readers • 326 pages 4.2

In A Sunburned Country

2000 • 174 Readers • 596 pages 4

The Mistake

#2 of 5 in Off-Campus

2015 • 185 Readers • 296 pages 3.8

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

The Fiancée Farce

2023 • 119 Readers • 351 pages 4

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940 • 544 Readers • 484 pages 3.9

Thinking, Fast and Slow

2011 • 1,365 Readers • 499 pages 4.1

They Both Die at the End

#1 of 2 in Death-Cast

2017 • 990 Readers • 336 pages 3.7

Mrs Death Misses Death

2021 • 65 Readers • 302 pages 3.4

Notes from Underground

1847 • 656 Readers • 149 pages 4.1

Dragon Rider

#1 of 2 in The Soulbound Saga

2023 • 76 Readers • 565 pages 3.7

Heartstopper: Volume Four

#4 of 9 in Osemanverse

2018 • 520 Readers • 384 pages 4.5

The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1849 • 294 Readers • 821 pages 4.4

David Copperfield

1849 • 499 Readers • 68 pages 4

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

#1 of 3 in Mead Mishaps

2021 • 247 Readers • 192 pages 3.9

Bookshops & Bonedust

#0 of 2 in Legends & Lattes

2023 • 838 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

Angle of Repose

1971 • 89 Readers • 482 pages 4.2

Clockwork Angel

#1 of 3 in The Infernal Devices

2010 • 768 Readers • 496 pages 4

Life Ceremony

2022 • 177 Readers • 256 pages 3.7

The False Prince

#1 of 5 in Ascendance

2012 • 202 Readers • 352 pages 4

Lullaby

2002 • 206 Readers • 274 pages 3.5

All My Puny Sorrows

2014 • 81 Readers • 336 pages 4.4

Starsight

#2 of 4 in Skyward

2019 • 613 Readers • 461 pages 4.3

Authority

#2 of 4 in Southern Reach

2001 • 491 Readers • 352 pages 3.4

The Bear and the Nightingale

#1 of 3 in The Winternight Trilogy

2017 • 895 Readers • 1,235 pages 4

Heartless

2016 • 380 Readers • 450 pages 3.8

Up in the Old Hotel

1992 • 25 Readers • 716 pages 5

A Visit from the Goon Squad

#1 of 3 in Goon Squad

2010 • 501 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

Unsouled

#1 of 12 in Cradle

2016 • 482 Readers • 291 pages 3.8

Hamnet

2020 • 642 Readers • 321 pages 4.2

Travels with Charley

1961 • 161 Readers • 214 pages 4

Muse of Nightmares

#2 of 2 in Strange the Dreamer

2017 • 268 Readers • 528 pages 4.3

The Death of Ivan Ilych

1866 • 511 Readers • 70 pages 4.1

Daemon

#1 of 2 in Daemon

2006 • 351 Readers • 482 pages 4

Pop. 1280

35 Readers 4

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

2015 • 118 Readers • 447 pages 4.3

Leviathan Falls

#9 of 9 in The Expanse

2021 • 567 Readers • 528 pages 4.4

Going Postal

#33 of 41 in Discworld

2004 • 492 Readers • 422 pages 4.4

Nicholas Nickleby

1839 • 72 Readers • 831 pages 3.9

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

2023 • 673 Readers • 9 pages 4.1

The Divine Comedy

#1-3 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

1320 • 71 Readers • 798 pages 4.2

Ship of Fools

2001 • 81 Readers • 392 pages 3.4

Journey to the Center of the Earth

1864 • 111 Readers • 191 pages 3.8

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

2021 • 150 Readers • 370 pages 4.4

House of Suns

2008 • 322 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

Bleak House

1852 • 250 Readers • 682 pages 4

Charlotte's Web

923 Readers 3.9

Yellowface

2023 • 1,936 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

1979 • 453 Readers • 260 pages 4.1

The Satanic Verses

1988 • 292 Readers • 568 pages 3.8

Revival

2014 • 304 Readers • 448 pages 3.7

Wrath

#4 of 4 in The Faithful and the Fallen

2016 • 211 Readers • 720 pages 4.3

Batman: Year One

4 Batman

1988 • 41 Readers • 148 pages 4.1

The Dutch House

2019 • 427 Readers • 353 pages 4

The Queen of Nothing

#3 of 3 in The Folk of the Air

2019 • 721 Readers • 279 pages 4.1

Scarlet

#2 of 4 in The Lunar Chronicles

2013 • 559 Readers • 512 pages 4

The Help

2009 • 969 Readers • 534 pages 4.2

Abhorsen

#3 of 6 in Abhorsen

2003 • 225 Readers • 368 pages 4.3

Nana, Vol. 1

#1 of 20 in Nana

2000 • 76 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

A Fine Balance

1995 • 233 Readers • 818 pages 4.4

Berserk Volume 1

#1 of 42 in Berserk

1990 • 202 Readers • 224 pages 4.2

Fool's Assassin

#1 of 3 in Fitz and the Fool

2014 • 359 Readers • 400 pages 4.4

Small Things Like These

2021 • 611 Readers • 70 pages 4.1

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

#1 of 3 in Dirk Gently

1987 • 561 Readers 3.9

Of War and Ruin

#3 of 5 in The Bound and the Broken

2023 • 101 Readers • 1,016 pages 4.6

The Farthest Shore

#3 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

17 • 325 Readers • 288 pages 4

Setting Free the Bears

1968 • 14 Readers • 301 pages 3.6

The Little House Treasury

#1 of 10 in Little House

1932 • 87 Readers • 638 pages 4.2

Coraline

2001 • 1,335 Readers • 176 pages 4.1

Butcher & Blackbird

#1 of 3 in The Ruinous Love Trilogy

2023 • 530 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

The Vanished Birds

2020 • 201 Readers • 391 pages 3.9

The Giving Tree

1964 • 691 Readers • 64 pages 4.2

Ruin

#3 of 4 in The Faithful and the Fallen

2015 • 229 Readers • 768 pages 4.4

My Brilliant Friend

#1 of 4 in L'amica geniale

2011 • 664 Readers • 392 pages 4

The Red Tent

1997 • 36 Readers • 412 pages 4

Water for Elephants

2006 • 685 Readers 3.9

Lightning

1988 • 72 Readers • 329 pages 4

The language of flowers

2012 • 7 Readers • 334 pages 3.8

The Shadow of the Lion

#1 of 2 in Heirs of Alexandria

2002 • 4 Readers • 817 pages 4

Collected Fictions

1998 • 101 Readers • 584 pages 4.8

Lirael

#2 of 6 in Abhorsen

2001 • 256 Readers • 460 pages 4.2

A Fire Upon the Deep

#1 of 3 in Zones of Thought

2010 • 583 Readers • 624 pages 4

Out of the Silent Planet

#1 of 3 in The Space Trilogy

1938 • 269 Readers • 155 pages 3.8

The War of the Worlds

Smart Pop

1897 • 755 Readers • 192 pages 3.7

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

2010 • 386 Readers • 571 pages 4.2

Divergent

#1 of 3 in Divergent

2011 • 1,815 Readers • 487 pages 3.7

Gemina

#2 of 3 in The Illuminae Files

2016 • 239 Readers • 672 pages 4.4

The Bluest Eye

1970 • 541 Readers • 216 pages 4

The Silence of the Lambs

#2 of 4 in Hannibal Lecter

1988 • 560 Readers • 436 pages 4.1

Fingersmith

2002 • 331 Readers • 548 pages 4.1

Radio Silence

#9 of 9 in Osemanverse

2016 • 447 Readers • 496 pages 4

The Guncle

#1 of 2 in The Guncle

2021 • 279 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

The Wandering Inn: Volume 1

#1 of 11 in The Wandering Inn

2018 • 190 Readers • 1,235 pages 4.4