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

1949 • 633 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

Snow Crash

Snow Crash
ByNeal Stephenson

1992 • 2,106 Readers • 448 pages 4

Neuromancer

#1 of 2 in Sprawl

Neuromancer
ByWilliam Gibson

1984 • 2,572 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

Helliconia Summer

#2 of 4 in Helliconia

Helliconia Summer
ByBrian W. Aldiss

1982 • 24 Readers • 416 pages 3.3

The Forgotten Soldier

1967 • 36 Readers • 478 pages 4.4

Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon
ByDaniel Keyes

19 • 2,317 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz
ByWalter M. Miller Jr.

1959 • 869 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Blindsight

#1 of 3 in Firefall

Blindsight
ByPeter Watts

2006 • 931 Readers • 384 pages 3.8

The Testaments

#2 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

The Testaments
ByMargaret Atwood

2019 • 1,005 Readers • 320 pages 4

Blood Song

#1 of 3 in Raven's Shadow

Blood Song
ByAnthony Ryan

2011 • 587 Readers • 642 pages 4.4

The Black Company

#1 of 9 in The Chronicles of the Black Company

1984 • 600 Readers • 320 pages 3.7

Black Man

Black Man
ByRichard K. Morgan

2007 • 27 Readers • 560 pages 3.8

The Last Wish

#0.5 of 7 in The Witcher

The Last Wish
ByAndrzej Sapkowski

1993 • 1,996 Readers • 352 pages 4.1

Blood of Elves

#1 of 7 in The Witcher

Blood of Elves
ByAndrzej Sapkowski,Danusia Stok(Translator)

20 • 1,286 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

#2 of 19 in The Elric Saga

1976 • 99 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

Metro 2033

#1 of 3 in Metro

Metro 2033
ByDmitry Glukhovsky,Дмитрий Глуховский

2002 • 493 Readers • 461 pages 3.8

Roadside Picnic

Roadside Picnic
ByArkady Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky,+1 more

1972 • 796 Readers • 226 pages 4

Ubik

Ubik
ByPhilip K. Dick

1969 • 802 Readers • 285 pages 4

Ilium

#1 of 2 in Ilium

Ilium
ByDan Simmons

2003 • 296 Readers • 752 pages 3.8

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

Hyperion
ByDan Simmons

1989 • 2,465 Readers • 492 pages 4.3

Shōgun

#1 of 6 in Asian Saga: Chronological Order

Shōgun
ByJames Clavell

1975 • 903 Readers • 47h 54m 4.2

King Rat: The Fourth Novel of the Asian Saga

#4 of 6 in Asian Saga: Chronological Order

1962 • 124 Readers • 464 pages 4

Grass

#1 of 3 in Arbai

Grass
BySheri S. Tepper

1989 • 143 Readers • 484 pages 3.8

Dawn

#1 of 3 in Xenogenesis

Dawn
ByOctavia E. Butler

1987 • 666 Readers • 256 pages 4

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Fifth Season
ByN. K. Jemisin

2015 • 2,997 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

The Shining
ByStephen King

1977 • 2,406 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

It

It
ByStephen King

1986 • 1,895 Readers • 1,168 pages 4.1

Rocannon's World

#1 of 14 in Hainish Cycle

Rocannon's World
ByUrsula K. Le Guin,Stefan Rudnicki

1966 • 286 Readers 3.7

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 14 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 1,867 Readers • 267 pages 4

The Heroes

#2 of 3 in World of the First Law

The Heroes
ByJoe Abercrombie

2011 • 512 Readers • 560 pages 4.2

Starship Troopers

21 Heinlein's Juveniles

Starship Troopers
ByRobert A. Heinlein

1959 • 955 Readers • 292 pages 3.8

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

American Gods
ByNeil Gaiman

2001 • 3,441 Readers • 635 pages 4

The Shadow of the Torturer

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1980 • 689 Readers • 276 pages 3.7

Litany of the Long Sun

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

1994 • 71 Readers • 543 pages 4

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

The Name of the Wind
ByPatrick Rothfuss

1 • 3,681 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

Dune
ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 6,424 Readers • 704 pages 4.3