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.

Books4,154

Answers10,355

Readers1,843

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.54	1,422 reads
Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	3,714 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams	4.24	3,370 reads
1984 George Orwell	4.21	5,242 reads
The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson	4.62	2,177 reads
Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson	4.45	2,930 reads
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien	4.29	4,361 reads
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen	4.17	2,260 reads
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J. K. Rowling	4.28	6,540 reads
Project Hail Mary Andy Weir	4.46	2,922 reads
The Martian Andy Weir	4.42	2,977 reads
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.11	4,830 reads
The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	4.39	3,245 reads
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card	4.26	2,465 reads
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss	4.42	2,034 reads
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller	4.26	1,892 reads
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	3.99	1,365 reads
Ready Player One Ernest Cline	3.97	2,811 reads
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling	4.42	5,065 reads
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan	4.05	2,449 reads
The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien	4.45	2,197 reads
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.17	3,322 reads
The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien	4.56	1,338 reads
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez	4.09	1,024 reads
The Book Thief Markus Zusak	4.32	1,555 reads
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.37	3,142 reads
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.31	967 reads
American Gods Neil Gaiman	4.03	2,039 reads
Hyperion Dan Simmons	4.26	1,042 reads
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	4.25	1,532 reads
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling	4.29	4,526 reads
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling	4.38	4,419 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	4.06	1,759 reads
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling	4.42	4,386 reads
Circe Madeline Miller	4.23	1,752 reads
Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson	4.71	1,786 reads
A Court of Mist and Fury Sarah J. Maas	4.37	1,723 reads
Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.85	2,114 reads
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling	4.37	4,807 reads
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.28	1,992 reads
Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.09	1,897 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.24	1,536 reads
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	3.6	2,597 reads
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes	4.28	1,337 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.72	3,370 reads
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.23	2,018 reads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.89	3,146 reads
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09	2,216 reads
The Stand Stephen King	4.15	1,081 reads
Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros	3.98	2,190 reads
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë	3.64	1,198 reads
Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery	4.28	690 reads
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.25	1,136 reads
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett	4.18	1,731 reads
Dark Matter Blake Crouch	4.03	1,645 reads
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.06	949 reads
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	4.02	1,779 reads
East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.47	627 reads
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin	4.1	1,662 reads
The Secret History Donna Tartt	4.06	1,092 reads
Red Rising Pierce Brown	4.14	1,771 reads
The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern	3.92	1,229 reads
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.24	1,599 reads
11/22/63 Stephen King	4.32	949 reads
Persuasion Jane Austen	4.08	563 reads
The Shining Stephen King	4.12	1,448 reads
The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin	4.34	1,294 reads
The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.03	1,498 reads
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Lucia Graves (Translator)	4.13	736 reads
Dracula Bram Stoker	3.86	1,592 reads
This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone	3.89	1,409 reads
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling	4.18	5,129 reads
Watership Down Richard Adams	4.07	581 reads
Neuromancer William Gibson	3.81	1,231 reads
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara	4.11	736 reads
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab	4.11	1,409 reads
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton	4.09	1,305 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.07	2,335 reads
A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers	4.25	951 reads
aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz	4.19	707 reads
The House in the Cerulean Sea TJ Klune	4.3	1,348 reads
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky	4.27	983 reads
Little Women Louisa May Alcott	3.96	1,063 reads
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo	4.32	1,396 reads
A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas	3.71	2,273 reads
The Midnight Library Matt Haig	3.79	2,148 reads
Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones	4.17	839 reads
Animal Farm George Orwell Boris Grabnar (Translator) Celâl Üster (Translator) Celâl Üstüner (Translator)	4.04	4,098 reads
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	4	920 reads
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis	3.95	2,188 reads
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin	3.89	1,021 reads
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Constance Garnett (Translator)	4.4	475 reads
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R.F. Kuang	4.06	1,138 reads
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.06	1,467 reads
The Lies of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch	4.29	1,102 reads
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.08	1,291 reads
Recursion Blake Crouch	4.21	1,013 reads
Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb	4.11	779 reads
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov	3.91	1,021 reads
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	4.12	600 reads