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.

Books3,954

Answers9,624

Readers1,716

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.54	1,283 reads
Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	3,393 reads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams	4.24	3,068 reads
1984 George Orwell	4.21	4,762 reads
The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson	4.61	1,951 reads
Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson	4.45	2,648 reads
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen	4.18	2,054 reads
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J. K. Rowling	4.29	6,014 reads
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien	4.29	3,963 reads
Project Hail Mary Andy Weir	4.45	2,628 reads
The Martian Andy Weir	4.42	2,714 reads
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.12	4,422 reads
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card	4.26	2,254 reads
The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	4.38	2,964 reads
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss	4.41	1,866 reads
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller	4.27	1,775 reads
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	3.99	1,266 reads
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan	4.04	2,252 reads
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling	4.44	4,657 reads
Ready Player One Ernest Cline	3.95	2,571 reads
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.17	3,069 reads
The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien	4.45	1,984 reads
The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien	4.57	1,200 reads
The Book Thief Markus Zusak	4.32	1,444 reads
American Gods Neil Gaiman	4.03	1,897 reads
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin	4.37	2,874 reads
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	4.25	1,409 reads
Hyperion Dan Simmons	4.26	941 reads
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.09	936 reads
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.31	882 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	4.06	1,612 reads
A Court of Mist and Fury Sarah J. Maas	4.37	1,611 reads
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling	4.39	4,045 reads
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling	4.3	4,162 reads
Words of Radiance Brandon Sanderson	4.7	1,599 reads
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling	4.38	4,421 reads
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling	4.43	4,020 reads
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.28	1,871 reads
Circe Madeline Miller	4.24	1,639 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.73	3,109 reads
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes	4.27	1,225 reads
The Stand Stephen King	4.17	992 reads
Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut	4.08	1,749 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.24	1,403 reads
Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.85	1,926 reads
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger	3.59	2,371 reads
Dark Matter Blake Crouch	4.04	1,494 reads
Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros	3.99	1,992 reads
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	4.23	1,789 reads
Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery	4.31	650 reads
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09	2,069 reads
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn Muir Jelena Katić Živanović (Translator)	4.08	882 reads
The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern	3.91	1,155 reads
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin	4.11	1,550 reads
The Secret History Donna Tartt	4.05	1,008 reads
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.25	1,026 reads
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë	3.64	1,101 reads
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury	3.9	2,882 reads
East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.48	571 reads
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman	4.03	1,639 reads
11/22/63 Stephen King	4.33	870 reads
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett	4.17	1,527 reads
Watership Down Richard Adams	4.08	540 reads
Neuromancer William Gibson	3.8	1,095 reads
Red Rising Pierce Brown	4.14	1,600 reads
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling	4.18	4,707 reads
The Shining Stephen King	4.12	1,346 reads
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey	4.24	1,447 reads
This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar Max Gladstone	3.89	1,314 reads
Persuasion Jane Austen	4.08	522 reads
A Little Life	4.13	664 reads
The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin	4.34	1,203 reads
The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.02	1,369 reads
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz	4.19	666 reads
All Systems Red Martha Wells	4.06	2,060 reads
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón Lucia Graves (Translator)	4.14	636 reads
A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas	3.71	2,107 reads
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton	4.09	1,198 reads
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab	4.11	1,326 reads
The House in the Cerulean Sea TJ Klune	4.3	1,244 reads
Dracula Bram Stoker	3.86	1,464 reads
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky	4.28	875 reads
Little Women Louisa May Alcott	3.96	998 reads
Animal Farm George Orwell Boris Grabnar (Translator) Celâl Üster (Translator) Celâl Üstüner (Translator)	4.04	3,727 reads
Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones	4.17	782 reads
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo	4.31	1,307 reads
The Midnight Library Matt Haig	3.79	2,011 reads
Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb	4.1	714 reads
A Psalm for the Wild-Built Becky Chambers	4.26	877 reads
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis	3.97	2,036 reads
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R.F. Kuang	4.07	1,045 reads
Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.08	1,211 reads
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.99	844 reads
The Lies of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch	4.29	1,019 reads
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Constance Garnett (Translator)	4.38	433 reads
Recursion Blake Crouch	4.2	929 reads
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.06	1,358 reads
The Eye of the World Robert Jordan	4.01	1,340 reads
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov	3.88	945 reads
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	4.14	560 reads