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 English Patient

The English Patient
ByMichael Ondaatje

234 Readers 3.6

Why this book?

The prose in this book is so rich and compelling that every time I read it I find new things to love about it.

Piranesi

Piranesi
BySusanna Clarke

2019 • 3,000 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

#1 in Strange & Norrell

2004 • 1,527 Readers • 865 pages 4

The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook
ByDoris Lessing

1962 • 154 Readers • 676 pages 3.9

The Night Watchman

The Night Watchman
ByLouise Erdrich

2020 • 291 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

Possession

Possession
ByA.S. Byatt

1990 • 229 Readers • 555 pages 4