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.

Gingerbread

Gingerbread
ByHelen Oyeyemi

2019 • 137 Readers • 258 pages 3.5

Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition)

Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition)
ByMilorad Pavić,Christina Pribićević-Zorić(Translator)

1983 • 74 Readers • 354 pages 3.6

The Book of Joby

The Book of Joby
ByMark J. Ferrari

2007 • 9 Readers • 639 pages 4.4

A Desolation Called Peace

#2 of 2 in Teixcalaan

2021 • 509 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

The Amber Spyglass

#3 of 3 in His Dark Materials

The Amber Spyglass
ByPhilip Pullman

1999 • 1,063 Readers • 518 pages 4

The Subtle Knife

#2 of 3 in His Dark Materials

The Subtle Knife
ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 1,172 Readers • 326 pages 4.1

The Golden Compass

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

The Golden Compass
ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 2,468 Readers • 399 pages 4

The Masqueraders

The Masqueraders
ByGeorgette Heyer

1928 • 32 Readers • 308 pages 3.9

Cotillion

Cotillion
ByGeorgette Heyer

1953 • 51 Readers • 368 pages 4.3

A Civil Contract

A Civil Contract
ByGeorgette Heyer

1961 • 30 Readers • 388 pages 4

Rakesfall

Rakesfall
ByVajra Chandrasekera

2024 • 76 Readers • 238 pages 3.5

Contact

Contact
ByCarl Sagan

1985 • 749 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

A Memory Called Empire

#1 of 2 in Teixcalaan

A Memory Called Empire
ByArkady Martine

2019 • 1,336 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

Recursion

Recursion
ByBlake Crouch

2005 • 1,971 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

The Andromeda Strain

#1 of 2 in The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain
ByMichael Crichton

1969 • 687 Readers • 354 pages 3.7

Sphere

Sphere
ByMichael Crichton

1987 • 565 Readers • 371 pages 3.7

Ancillary Justice

#1 of 5 in Imperial Radch

Ancillary Justice
ByAnn Leckie

2013 • 1,231 Readers • 416 pages 4

The Stone Sky

#3 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Stone Sky
ByN. K. Jemisin

2017 • 1,026 Readers • 464 pages 4.4

The Obelisk Gate

#2 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Obelisk Gate
ByN. K. Jemisin

2016 • 1,145 Readers • 407 pages 4.3

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Fifth Season
ByN. K. Jemisin

2015 • 2,800 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings

2015 • 7 Readers • 344 pages 5

East of Eden

East of Eden
ByJohn Steinbeck

1939 • 1,679 Readers • 601 pages 4.5

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath
ByJohn Steinbeck

1939 • 1,605 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

Embassytown

Embassytown
ByChina Miéville

2011 • 381 Readers • 440 pages 3.8

Harrow the Ninth

#2 of 3 in The Locked Tomb

Harrow the Ninth
ByTamsyn Muir

2020 • 801 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

Gideon the Ninth

#1 of 3 in The Locked Tomb

Gideon the Ninth
ByTamsyn Muir

2019 • 2,077 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Acceptance

#3 of 4 in Southern Reach

Acceptance
ByJeff VanderMeer

2014 • 500 Readers • 353 pages 3.6

Authority

#2 of 4 in Southern Reach

Authority
ByJeff VanderMeer

2001 • 632 Readers • 352 pages 3.4

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

Annihilation
ByJeff VanderMeer

2014 • 2,027 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

Semiosis

#1 of 3 in Semiosis

Semiosis
BySue Burke

2018 • 273 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

Dune
ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 5,948 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

Band Sinister

Band Sinister
ByK.J. Charles

2018 • 11 Readers 3.9

Mr Warren's Profession

#1 of 1 in Aubrey & Lindsey

Mr Warren's Profession
BySebastian Nothwell

2017 • 12 Readers • 414 pages 3.8

The Only Gold

The Only Gold
ByTamara Allen

2011 • 8 Readers • 300 pages 4.7

Assassin of Reality

#2 of 3 in Vita Nostra

Assassin of Reality
ByMarina Dyachenko,Sergey Dyachenko,+1 more

2021 • 24 Readers • 256 pages 3.7

Vita Nostra

#1 of 3 in Vita Nostra

Vita Nostra
ByMarina Dyachenko

2007 • 426 Readers • 525 pages 4

Uprooted

Uprooted
ByNaomi Novik

2015 • 1,225 Readers • 438 pages 4

Exhalation

Exhalation
ByTed Chiang

2019 • 1,195 Readers • 350 pages 4.3

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 1,184 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

Translation State

Translation State
ByAnn Leckie

2023 • 379 Readers • 312 pages 4

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1

#1 of 7 in Chrestomanci

1977 • 64 Readers • 612 pages 4.4

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

#3 of 7 in ReVisioning American History

2014 • 188 Readers 4.3

This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War
ByAmal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone

2019 • 2,962 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Mammoths at the Gates

#4 of 5 in The Singing Hills Cycle

2023 • 93 Readers • 128 pages 4.1

A Taste of Honey

#2 of 2 in The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

A Taste of Honey
ByKai Ashante Wilson

2016 • 66 Readers • 136 pages 3.6

The Golden Globe

#2 of 3 in Eight Worlds

The Golden Globe
ByJohn Varley

1998 • 16 Readers • 425 pages 3.6