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.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

#1 of 3 in The Masquerade

2015 • 582 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

Snow Crash

Snow Crash
ByNeal Stephenson

1992 • 1,888 Readers • 448 pages 4

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

Neuromancer
ByWilliam Gibson

1984 • 2,303 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

Helliconia Summer

#2 of 4 in Helliconia

Helliconia Summer
ByBrian W. Aldiss

1982 • 20 Readers • 416 pages 3.1

The Forgotten Soldier

1967 • 33 Readers • 478 pages 4.6

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon
ByDaniel Keyes

19 • 2,123 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz
ByWalter M. Miller Jr.

1959 • 791 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Blindsight

#1 of 2 in Firefall

Blindsight
ByPeter Watts

2006 • 818 Readers • 384 pages 3.8

The Testaments

#2 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

The Testaments
ByMargaret Atwood

2019 • 935 Readers • 320 pages 4

Blood Song

#1 of 3 in Raven's Shadow

Blood Song
ByAnthony Ryan

2011 • 537 Readers • 642 pages 4.4

The Black Company

#1 of 9 in The Chronicles of the Black Company

1984 • 545 Readers • 320 pages 3.7

Black Man

Black Man
ByRichard K. Morgan

2007 • 23 Readers • 560 pages 3.8

The Last Wish

#0.5 of 7 in The Witcher

The Last Wish
ByAndrzej Sapkowski

1993 • 1,822 Readers • 352 pages 4.1

Blood of Elves

#1 of 7 in The Witcher

Blood of Elves
ByAndrzej Sapkowski,Danusia Stok(Translator)

20 • 1,169 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

#2 of 18 in The Elric Saga

1976 • 91 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

Metro 2033

#1 of 2 in Metro

Metro 2033
ByDmitry Glukhovsky,Дмитрий Глуховский

2002 • 436 Readers • 461 pages 3.8

Roadside Picnic

Roadside Picnic
ByArkady Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky,+1 more

1972 • 690 Readers • 226 pages 4

Ubik

Ubik
ByPhilip K. Dick

1969 • 721 Readers • 285 pages 4

Ilium

#1 of 2 in Ilium

Ilium
ByDan Simmons

2003 • 272 Readers • 752 pages 3.8

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

Hyperion
ByDan Simmons

1989 • 2,224 Readers • 492 pages 4.3

Shōgun

#1 of 6 in Asian Saga: Chronological Order

Shōgun
ByJames Clavell

1975 • 820 Readers • 1,218 pages 4.2

King Rat: The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga

#4 of 6 in Asian Saga: Chronological Order

1962 • 111 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

Grass

#1 of 3 in Arbai

Grass
BySheri S. Tepper

1989 • 135 Readers • 484 pages 3.7

Dawn

#1 of 3 in Xenogenesis

Dawn
ByOctavia E. Butler

1987 • 615 Readers • 256 pages 4

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Fifth Season
ByN.K. Jemisin

2015 • 2,754 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

The Shining
ByStephen King

1977 • 2,229 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

It

It
ByStephen King

1986 • 1,741 Readers • 1,168 pages 4.1

Rocannon's World

#1 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

Rocannon's World
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1966 • 6 Readers • 6 pages 2.9

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 1,646 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

The Heroes

#2 of 3 in World of the First Law

The Heroes
ByJoe Abercrombie

2011 • 462 Readers • 560 pages 4.2

Starship Troopers

22 Heinlein's Juveniles

Starship Troopers
ByRobert A. Heinlein

1959 • 857 Readers • 292 pages 3.7

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

American Gods
ByNeil Gaiman

2001 • 3,169 Readers • 635 pages 4

The Shadow of the Torturer

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1980 • 632 Readers • 276 pages 3.7

Litany of the Long Sun

#1-2 of 4 in The Book of the Long Sun

1994 • 62 Readers • 543 pages 4.1

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

The Name of the Wind
ByPatrick Rothfuss

1 • 3,361 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

Dune
ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 5,835 Readers • 704 pages 4.3