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

20 • 2,060 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

1965 • 6,030 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#1 of 7 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 4,694 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

1984

1949 • 7,535 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

The Way of Kings

#1 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 3,782 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

Mistborn: The Final Empire

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

2006 • 4,565 Readers • 534 pages 4.5

The Hobbit

#0 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

10 • 5,396 Readers • 300 pages 4.3

Pride and Prejudice

6 Cozy Classics

1811 • 3,539 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1989 • 6,959 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 5,050 Readers • 496 pages 4.5

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

2011 • 4,100 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

The Hunger Games

#1 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2008 • 5,450 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 4,239 Readers • 398 pages 4.4

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 3,310 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

1 • 3,463 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

The Song of Achilles

1995 • 3,505 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

Jane Eyre

1846 • 2,451 Readers • 580 pages 4

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

2008 • 3,685 Readers • 384 pages 4

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

#3 of 8 in Harry Potter

1957 • 5,319 Readers • 547 pages 4.4

The Lightning Thief

#1 of 10 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2000 • 3,002 Readers • 377 pages 4.1

The Two Towers

#2 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 2,853 Readers • 725 pages 4.4

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 4,623 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Return of the King

#3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1950 • 1,875 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

One Hundred Years of Solitude

1967 • 2,373 Readers • 396 pages 4.1

The Book Thief

2005 • 2,871 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire

1996 • 4,204 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

The Count of Monte Cristo

8 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1830 • 2,274 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

2001 • 3,248 Readers • 635 pages 4

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 2,300 Readers • 492 pages 4.3

And Then There Were None

1939 • 2,482 Readers • 116 pages 4.3

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

#5 of 8 in Harry Potter

2003 • 4,871 Readers • 896 pages 4.3

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

#6 of 8 in Harry Potter

2005 • 4,777 Readers • 672 pages 4.4

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 3,140 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

#7 of 8 in Harry Potter

2007 • 4,755 Readers • 784 pages 4.4

Circe

2018 • 3,498 Readers • 409 pages 4.2

Words of Radiance

#2 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2012 • 2,310 Readers • 1,328 pages 4.7

A Court of Mist and Fury

#2 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2016 • 2,115 Readers • 659 pages 4.4

Frankenstein

2 Barron's Graphic Classics

-800 • 3,336 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

#4 of 8 in Harry Potter

2000 • 5,106 Readers • 752 pages 4.4

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Reidverse

2017 • 3,146 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Slaughterhouse 5

2 Critical Insights

1968 • 3,116 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

Piranesi

2019 • 3,120 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

The Catcher in the Rye

200 • 3,719 Readers 3.6

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 2,184 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,391 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Little Prince

1 • 2,621 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 4,763 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 3,700 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

The Stand

1978 • 2,003 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.1

Fourth Wing

#1 of 3 in The Empyrean

2023 • 3,615 Readers • 517 pages 4

Wuthering Heights

Continuum Contemporaries

1847 • 2,190 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

Anne of Green Gables

#1 of 13 in Anne of Green Gables

1908 • 1,099 Readers • 326 pages 4.3

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,613 Readers • 602 pages 4.2

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,949 Readers • 340 pages 4

Gideon the Ninth

#1 of 3 in The Locked Tomb

2019 • 2,093 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Golden Compass

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1995 • 2,506 Readers • 399 pages 4

East of Eden

1939 • 1,700 Readers • 601 pages 4.5

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

2022 • 3,492 Readers • 397 pages 4.1

The Secret History

1992 • 2,572 Readers • 578 pages 4.1

Red Rising

#1 of 6 in Red Rising Saga

2014 • 3,617 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

The Night Circus

2011 • 2,421 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 10 in The Expanse

2011 • 2,643 Readers • 621 pages 4.2

11/22/63

2011 • 1,897 Readers • 849 pages 4.3

Persuasion

19 • 1,066 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

1977 • 2,276 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

2015 • 2,836 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

The Road

1974 • 2,537 Readers • 287 pages 4

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

2001 • 1,528 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

Dracula

24 • 2,758 Readers • 440 pages 3.9

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 2,991 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

#2 of 8 in Harry Potter

1998 • 5,365 Readers • 332 pages 4.2

Watership Down

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

1972 • 1,129 Readers • 385 pages 4.1

Neuromancer

#1 of 2 in Sprawl

1984 • 2,394 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

A Little Life

2015 • 2,043 Readers • 720 pages 4.1

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2020 • 2,903 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Jurassic Park

#1 of 2 in Jurassic Park

1990 • 1,882 Readers • 805 pages 4.1

All Systems Red

#1 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

2017 • 3,682 Readers • 144 pages 4.1

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#1 of 2 in Monk and Robot

2021 • 1,798 Readers • 160 pages 4.3

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe

#1 of 2 in Aristotle and Dante

2012 • 1,193 Readers • 368 pages 4.2

The House in the Cerulean Sea

#1 of 2 in Cerulean Chronicles

2020 • 2,536 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Children of Time

#1 of 3 in Children of Time

2015 • 2,154 Readers • 600 pages 4.3

Little Women

#1 of 3 in Little Women

198 • 1,939 Readers • 449 pages 4

Six of Crows

#1 of 2 in Six of Crows

2015 • 2,745 Readers • 465 pages 4.3

A Court of Thorns and Roses

#1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2014 • 3,235 Readers • 440 pages 3.7

The Midnight Library

2020 • 3,846 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Howl's Moving Castle

#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle

1986 • 1,589 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

Animal Farm

1945 • 5,278 Readers • 122 pages 4

Catch-22

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

1961 • 2,078 Readers • 466 pages 4

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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

1950 • 2,594 Readers • 208 pages 4

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1968 • 1,932 Readers • 240 pages 3.9

The Brothers Karamazov

1878 • 1,632 Readers • 908 pages 4.4

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

1999 • 2,126 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

The Lies of Locke Lamora

#1 of 3 in Gentleman Bastard

2006 • 2,362 Readers • 745 pages 4.3

Station Eleven

2014 • 2,327 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

Recursion

2005 • 1,995 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Assassin's Apprentice

#1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1995 • 1,385 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

Lolita

1954 • 2,030 Readers • 331 pages 3.9

Rebecca

1938 • 1,434 Readers • 428 pages 4.1