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
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 Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin	4.01	215 reads
The language of flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh	3.75	5 reads
The Little House Treasury Laura Ingalls Wilder	4.23	73 reads
Gemina Amie Kaufman Jay Kristoff	4.44	156 reads
Lightning Dean Koontz	4	46 reads
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge	4.01	250 reads
The Shadow of the Lion Eric Flint Dave Freer Mercedes Lackey	4	2 reads
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells	3.73	420 reads
Throne in the Dark A.K. Caggiano	4.23	31 reads
Ruin John Gwynne	4.4	119 reads
Divergent Veronica Roth	3.72	1,533 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.04	294 reads
The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4.02	236 reads
Asunder Kerstin Hall	4.83	6 reads
Fingersmith Sarah Waters	4.11	122 reads
The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris	4.12	329 reads
Radio Silence Alice Oseman	4.02	221 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.24	245 reads
Totto-chan Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Dorothy Britton (Translator)	4.59	13 reads
Dead Beat Jim Butcher	4.27	353 reads
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee	4.23	129 reads
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith	4.13	150 reads
Three Men In A Boat Jerome K. Jerome	3.79	127 reads
The Wandering Inn: Volume 1 Pirateaba	4.35	69 reads
Fool's Fate Robin Hobb	4.52	197 reads
Without Remorse Tom Clancy	3.79	75 reads
Counting by 7s Holly Goldberg Sloan	4.06	46 reads
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell	3.65	158 reads
The Guncle Steven Rowley	3.94	105 reads
Jade War Fonda Lee	4.36	261 reads
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Brené Brown	4.34	79 reads
A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie	4.41	226 reads
Emily of New Moon L.M. Montgomery	4.1	44 reads
Fugitive Telemetry Martha Wells	4.19	578 reads
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje	3.63	89 reads
Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu	3.81	196 reads
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu	3.81	282 reads
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare	3.47	1,306 reads
Red Sister Mark Lawrence	4.19	225 reads
Yours Truly Abby Jimenez	4.26	221 reads
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama Alison Bechdel	3.67	48 reads
A Closed and Common Orbit Becky Chambers	4.35	426 reads
Lost Souls Poppy Z. Brite	3.2	26 reads
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson	4.24	361 reads
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 Hajime Isayama Sheldon Drzka (Translator)	4.14	171 reads
The Help Kathryn Stockett	4.17	622 reads
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Jordan B. Peterson	3.46	277 reads
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas	4.51	546 reads
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions Ned Asta Larry Mitchell	4.67	10 reads
The Jesus I never knew Philip Yancey	4.5	8 reads
The Truth About You and Me Mandy Hubbard	4	1 read
Starter Villain John Scalzi	4.05	327 reads
The Practice of the Wild: Essays Gary Snyder	4	4 reads
The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell	4.13	129 reads
Guarded by the Vodnik Guarded by the Vodnik Layla Fae	5	2 reads
LA HORDE DU CONTREVENT Alain Damasio	0	0 reads
The Gravity Between Us Kristen Zimmer	3.15	16 reads
XOXO Axie Oh	3.69	57 reads
My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan Tom Foreman	4.4	5 reads
Secret Origins James Riley	4.4	6 reads
Winter's Heart Robert Jordan	3.83	400 reads
Poison for Breakfast Lemony Snicket	3.98	26 reads
The Boys of My Youth Jo Ann Beard	4.67	4 reads
What the Wind Knows Amy Harmon	4.04	32 reads
Icebreaker Hannah Grace	3.56	333 reads
Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner	3.74	33 reads
Below Laurel Hightower	4	20 reads
A Prisoner of Birth Jeffrey Archer	4.28	21 reads
The Piper's Son Melina Marchetta	4.8	6 reads
The Fake Out Stephanie Archer	4.26	29 reads
Sourdough Robin Sloan	4	135 reads
The Drawing of the Three Stephen King	4.13	571 reads
Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan Lafcadio Hearn	3.43	9 reads
Two Twisted Crowns Rachel Gillig	4.4	168 reads
Practical Magic Alice Hoffman	3.51	172 reads
El enigma de lo poético Sergio Peña y Lillo	5	1 read
Until the End of Time Brian Greene	4	3 reads
None Shall Sleep Ellie Marney	4.16	24 reads
Deep Blue Jennifer Donnelly	3.7	16 reads
Clear and Muddy Loss of Love Clear and Muddy Loss of Love 请君莫笑	5	1 read
進撃の巨人 34 Hajime Isayama 諫山創	4.38	34 reads
Thornhedge T. Kingfisher	4.15	148 reads
King Solomon's Ring Konrad Lorenz Marjorie Kerr Wilson (Translator)	3.5	5 reads
Kamikaze Girls Novala Takemoto Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)	4	6 reads
The Pagan Lord Bernard Cornwell	4.21	39 reads
Invitaţie la vals Mihail Drumeş	3.75	2 reads
야화첩 2 Byeonduck 변덕	5	1 read
The Maddest Obsession Danielle Lori	3.96	60 reads
The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway	3.72	21 reads
Night of the living Trekkies Kevin David Anderson	3.67	7 reads
The Dragonriders of Pern The Dragonriders of Pern: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey	0	0 reads
The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich	4.11	67 reads
The Peripheral William Gibson	3.83	150 reads
The Institute Stephen King	4.01	403 reads
Lavoura Arcaica Lavoura Arcaica Raduan Nassar	5	2 reads
The Mouse and the Motorcycle Beverly Cleary	3.92	74 reads
Dream Boy Jim Grimsley	3.64	12 reads