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
Spirits Abroad Zen Cho	4.33	11 reads
Frankenstein Marry Shelley	3.25	2 reads
Roadside Picnic Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky Olena Bormashenko (Translator)	3.98	249 reads
The Seven Year Slip Ashley Poston	4.24	193 reads
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4.02	115 reads
The Mistake Elle Kennedy	3.83	144 reads
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Jordan B. Peterson	3.46	277 reads
The Fiancée Farce Alexandria Bellefleur	3.97	46 reads
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway	3.86	229 reads
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman	4.13	513 reads
They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera	3.74	497 reads
Mrs Death Misses Death Salena Godden	3.42	14 reads
Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.07	245 reads
Dragon Rider Taran Matharu	3.68	15 reads
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle	4.55	213 reads
Heartstopper: Volume Four Alice Oseman	4.55	448 reads
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe	4.36	138 reads
David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.97	214 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon Kimberly Lemming	3.86	117 reads
Bookshops & Bonedust Travis Baldree	4.27	374 reads
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner	4.24	30 reads
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare	4.03	469 reads
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Ed Catmull Amy Wallace	4.33	183 reads
Life Ceremony Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.71	62 reads
The False Prince Jennifer A. Nielsen	4.02	106 reads
Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk	3.48	149 reads
All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews	4.35	35 reads
Starsight Brandon Sanderson	4.25	441 reads
Authority Jeff VanderMeer	3.41	337 reads
The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden	4.03	337 reads
Heartless Marissa Meyer	3.81	165 reads
Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell David Remnick	5	6 reads
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Lulu Miller	4.05	115 reads
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan	3.82	253 reads
Unsouled Will Wight	3.84	256 reads
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	4.16	214 reads
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck	3.98	74 reads
Muse of Nightmares Laini Taylor	4.32	146 reads
The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy Aylmer Maude (Translator) رضی هیرمند (Translator) Ευγενία Ζήκου (Translator)	4.12	227 reads
Daemon Daniel Suarez	3.96	208 reads
Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson	4	12 reads
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	4.32	56 reads
Leviathan Falls James S. A. Corey	4.43	388 reads
Going Postal Terry Pratchett	4.36	338 reads
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens	3.88	30 reads
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann	4.14	261 reads
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)	4.16	29 reads
Ship of Fools Richard Paul Russo	3.38	31 reads
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne	3.76	72 reads
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Suleika Jaouad	4.45	43 reads
House of Suns Alastair Reynolds	4.21	146 reads
Bleak House Charles Dickens	4.04	77 reads
Charlotte's Web E.B. White	3.94	787 reads
Yellowface R. F. Kuang	3.94	842 reads
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino William Weaver (Translator)	4.11	173 reads
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie	3.79	80 reads
Revival Stephen King	3.69	193 reads
Wrath John Gwynne	4.34	110 reads
Batman: Year One Frank Miller David Mazzucchelli	4.07	36 reads
The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4.02	236 reads
The Queen of Nothing Holly Black	4.09	490 reads
Scarlet Marissa Meyer	4.03	435 reads
The Help Kathryn Stockett	4.17	622 reads
Abhorsen Garth Nix	4.28	167 reads
Nana, Vol. 1 Ai Yazawa	4.14	47 reads
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry	4.41	65 reads
Berserk Volume 1 Kentaro Miura	4.23	138 reads
Fool's Assassin Robin Hobb	4.42	175 reads
Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	4.15	318 reads
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams	3.89	346 reads
Of War and Ruin Ryan Cahill	4.63	29 reads
The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin	4.01	215 reads
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall	4.31	187 reads
Setting Free the Bears John Irving	3.6	6 reads
The Little House Treasury Laura Ingalls Wilder	4.23	73 reads
Coraline Neil Gaiman	4.09	844 reads
Butcher & Blackbird Brynne Weaver	4.05	246 reads
The Vanished Birds Simon Jimenez	3.9	44 reads
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein	4.24	566 reads
Ruin John Gwynne	4.4	119 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.04	294 reads
The Red Tent Anita Diamant	4.04	29 reads
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen	3.92	405 reads
Lightning Dean Koontz	4	46 reads
The language of flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh	3.75	5 reads
The Shadow of the Lion Eric Flint Dave Freer Mercedes Lackey	4	2 reads
Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges Andrew Hurley (Translator)	4.76	25 reads
Lirael Garth Nix	4.24	187 reads
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge	4.01	250 reads
Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis	3.82	157 reads
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells	3.73	420 reads
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee	4.23	129 reads
Divergent Veronica Roth	3.72	1,533 reads
Gemina Amie Kaufman Jay Kristoff	4.44	156 reads
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	3.96	221 reads
The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris	4.12	329 reads
Fingersmith Sarah Waters	4.11	122 reads
Radio Silence Alice Oseman	4.02	221 reads
The Guncle Steven Rowley	3.94	105 reads
The Wandering Inn: Volume 1 Pirateaba	4.35	69 reads