What are your favorite books of all time?Answer

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.

Piranesi

Piranesi
BySusanna Clarke

2019 • 3,096 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

A Wizard of Earthsea
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1968 • 1,883 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

Middlesex

Middlesex
ByJeffrey Eugenides

2002 • 814 Readers • 548 pages 4.1

Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway
ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 860 Readers • 282 pages 3.7

The Way of Kings

#1 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

The Way of Kings
ByBrandon Sanderson

2010 • 3,755 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1891 • 482 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

Into the Wild

Into the Wild
ByJon Krakauer,Christopher Johnson McCandless

1996 • 1,037 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

Oryx and Crake

#1 of 3 in MaddAddam

Oryx and Crake
ByMargaret Atwood

2002 • 956 Readers • 402 pages 3.9

The Corrections

The Corrections
ByJonathan Franzen

2001 • 417 Readers • 676 pages 3.8

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

2005 • 287 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

Moments of Being

Moments of Being
ByVirginia Woolf

1976 • 15 Readers • 230 pages 4.8

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces
ByJohn Kennedy Toole

1978 • 725 Readers • 338 pages 3.9

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

2001 • 47 Readers • 324 pages 3.9

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

1997 • 734 Readers 4.3

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

#1 of 2 in Khalifa Brothers

1990 • 139 Readers • 227 pages 4.1

The Boys of My Youth

The Boys of My Youth
ByJo Ann Beard

1998 • 20 Readers • 129 pages 4.4

Murder Mysteries

Murder Mysteries
ByNeil Gaiman,P. Craig Russell,+2 more

1992 • 36 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

From the Bullet to the Ballot

2013 • 1 Reader • 304 pages 5

Housekeeping

Housekeeping
ByMarilynne Robinson

1980 • 195 Readers • 219 pages 3.9

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

2003 • 57 Readers • 408 pages 3.7

Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories

1983 • 1 Reader • 242 pages 5

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

1978 • 5 Readers • 192 pages 5

Up in the Old Hotel

Up in the Old Hotel
ByJoseph Mitchell,David Remnick

1992 • 36 Readers • 716 pages 5

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

1968 • 27 Readers • 406 pages 4.8