Prompts

What are your favorite books of all time?

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 Lord of the Rings

#1-3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 1,859 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

Dune

#1 of 8 in Dune

1965 • 5,508 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 4,280 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

1984

1949 • 6,836 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

The Way of Kings

#1 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 3,444 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

Mistborn: The Final Empire

#1 of 3 in The Mistborn Saga: The Original Trilogy

2006 • 4,168 Readers • 534 pages 4.5

Pride and Prejudice

6 Cozy Classics

1811 • 3,196 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1989 • 6,387 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

The Hobbit

#0 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1937 • 4,929 Readers • 300 pages 4.3

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 4,541 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

2011 • 3,720 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

The Hunger Games

#1 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2008 • 4,970 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 3,013 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 3,878 Readers • 398 pages 4.4

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

1 • 3,161 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

The Song of Achilles

2011 • 3,263 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

Jane Eyre

1847 • 2,271 Readers • 580 pages 4

The Lightning Thief

#1 of 9 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2000 • 2,757 Readers • 377 pages 4

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

#3 of 8 in Harry Potter

1957 • 4,881 Readers • 547 pages 4.4

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

2008 • 3,375 Readers • 384 pages 4

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 4,259 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Two Towers

#2 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 2,586 Readers • 725 pages 4.4

The Return of the King

#3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1950 • 1,679 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

The Book Thief

2005 • 2,664 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

2001 • 3,023 Readers • 635 pages 4

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire

1996 • 3,847 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

And Then There Were None

1939 • 2,268 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 2,078 Readers • 492 pages 4.3

The Count of Monte Cristo

5 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1830 • 2,081 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 2,870 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

A Court of Mist and Fury

#2 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2016 • 1,975 Readers • 659 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

#6 of 8 in Harry Potter

2005 • 4,370 Readers • 672 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

#5 of 8 in Harry Potter

2003 • 4,477 Readers • 896 pages 4.3

Words of Radiance

#2 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2012 • 2,074 Readers • 1,328 pages 4.7

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

#4 of 8 in Harry Potter

2000 • 4,691 Readers • 752 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

#7 of 8 in Harry Potter

2007 • 4,357 Readers • 784 pages 4.4

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Reidverse

2017 • 2,949 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Circe

2018 • 3,252 Readers • 409 pages 4.2

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,010 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 2,007 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

The Stand

1978 • 1,841 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.2

Slaughterhouse 5

2 Critical Insights

1968 • 2,868 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

Piranesi

2019 • 2,856 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

Frankenstein

181 • 3,041 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

The Catcher in the Rye

200 • 3,385 Readers • 288 pages 3.6

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,676 Readers • 340 pages 4

Fourth Wing

#1 of 3 in The Empyrean

2023 • 3,298 Readers • 678 pages 4

The Little Prince

1 • 2,335 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

Anne of Green Gables

#1 of 13 in Anne of Green Gables

1908 • 1,033 Readers • 326 pages 4.3

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 3,423 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

Gideon the Ninth

#1 of 4 in The Locked Tomb

2019 • 1,934 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Night Circus

2011 • 2,278 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

2022 • 3,263 Readers • 397 pages 4.1

The Secret History

1992 • 2,357 Readers • 578 pages 4.1

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,372 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

Wuthering Heights

Continuum Contemporaries

1847 • 2,008 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 4,347 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

East of Eden

1939 • 1,550 Readers • 601 pages 4.5

The Golden Compass

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1995 • 2,310 Readers • 399 pages 4

11/22/63

2011 • 1,743 Readers • 849 pages 4.3

Watership Down

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

1972 • 1,051 Readers • 385 pages 4.1

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 2,160 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

Red Rising

#1 of 6 in Red Rising Saga

2014 • 3,249 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

#2 of 8 in Harry Potter

1998 • 4,922 Readers • 332 pages 4.2

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

1977 • 2,108 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 10 in The Expanse

2011 • 2,375 Readers • 621 pages 4.2

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 2,769 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Persuasion

19 • 994 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

A Little Life

2015 • 1,874 Readers • 720 pages 4.1

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

2015 • 2,626 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

The Road

1974 • 2,318 Readers • 287 pages 4

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

#1 of 2 in Aristotle and Dante

2012 • 1,128 Readers • 368 pages 4.2

All Systems Red

#1 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

2017 • 3,222 Readers • 90 pages 4.1

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 1 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

2001 • 1,354 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

A Court of Thorns and Roses

#1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2014 • 3,000 Readers • 440 pages 3.7

Jurassic Park

#1 of 2 in Jurassic Park

1990 • 1,724 Readers • 805 pages 4.1

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2020 • 2,711 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The House in the Cerulean Sea

#1 of 2 in Cerulean Chronicles

2020 • 2,322 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Dracula

1897 • 2,519 Readers • 440 pages 3.9

Children of Time

#1 of 3 in Children of Time

2015 • 1,934 Readers • 600 pages 4.3

Little Women

#1 of 3 in Little Women

198 • 1,818 Readers • 449 pages 4

Animal Farm

1945 • 4,797 Readers • 122 pages 4

Howl's Moving Castle

#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle

1986 • 1,473 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

Six of Crows

#1 of 2 in Six of Crows

2015 • 2,545 Readers • 465 pages 4.3

The Midnight Library

5 • 3,571 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Assassin's Apprentice

#1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1995 • 1,257 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#1 of 2 in Monk and Robot

2021 • 1,653 Readers • 160 pages 4.3

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1950 • 2,409 Readers • 146 pages 4

Station Eleven

2014 • 2,166 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

Catch-22

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

1961 • 1,908 Readers • 466 pages 4

The Lies of Locke Lamora

#1 of 3 in Gentleman Bastard

2006 • 2,181 Readers • 745 pages 4.3

The Brothers Karamazov

1878 • 1,479 Readers • 908 pages 4.4

Recursion

2005 • 1,817 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

1999 • 1,977 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

The Eye of the World

#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

1990 • 2,261 Readers • 708 pages 4

Lolita

1954 • 1,872 Readers • 331 pages 3.9

Rebecca

1938 • 1,343 Readers • 428 pages 4.1