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.

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 1,868 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1968 • 1,741 Readers • 210 pages 3.9

Throne of Glass

#1 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2012 • 1,972 Readers • 432 pages 3.9

Rebecca

1938 • 1,343 Readers • 428 pages 4.1

The Priory of the Orange Tree

#1 of 1 in The Roots of Chaos

2018 • 1,904 Readers • 849 pages 4.1

Brave New World

1900 • 3,550 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Uprooted

2015 • 1,125 Readers • 448 pages 4

A Gentleman in Moscow

2016 • 1,177 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

A Man Called Ove

2012 • 1,509 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

Oathbringer

#3 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2017 • 1,794 Readers • 1,243 pages 4.5

Tress of the Emerald Sea

#1 of 4 in Secret Projects

2023 • 2,011 Readers • 480 pages 4.5

Blood Meridian

1985 • 1,211 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

Harrow the Ninth

#2 of 4 in The Locked Tomb

2020 • 745 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

Educated: A Memoir

2018 • 1,831 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,555 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

A Memory Called Empire

#1 of 2 in Teixcalaan

2019 • 1,256 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

The Bell Jar

1963 • 1,951 Readers • 234 pages 3.9

The Silmarillion

5 Middle-earth Universe

1977 • 1,175 Readers • 481 pages 3.9

Sabriel

#1 of 8 in The Old Kingdom

1995 • 822 Readers 4.1

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

15 World War Z

2006 • 1,363 Readers • 5h 59m 3.9

Norwegian Wood

1987 • 1,623 Readers • 389 pages 3.9

A Storm of Swords

#3 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire

2000 • 2,017 Readers • 992 pages 4.5

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

#1 of 4 in Wayfarers

2014 • 1,734 Readers • 423 pages 4.1

The Name of the Rose

1980 • 1,012 Readers • 556 pages 4

The Hero of Ages

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

2007 • 2,284 Readers • 564 pages 4.6

Lonesome Dove

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

1985 • 736 Readers • 858 pages 4.6

The Wise Man's Fear

#2 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

24 • 1,668 Readers • 1,107 pages 4.4

Outlander

#1 of 14 in Outlander

1991 • 1,074 Readers • 627 pages 3.9

The Princess Bride

1973 • 1,564 Readers • 399 pages 4.2

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

#1 of 3 in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

2019 • 1,602 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

#1 in Strange & Norrell

2004 • 1,474 Readers • 865 pages 4

It

1986 • 1,639 Readers • 1,168 pages 4.1

Catching Fire

#2 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2008 • 3,505 Readers • 391 pages 4.1

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

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

1956 • 918 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

Matilda

1390 • 985 Readers • 240 pages 4.3

Kingdom of Ash

#7 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2018 • 868 Readers • 984 pages 4.6

The Outsiders

1967 • 1,257 Readers • 229 pages 3.9

Eragon

#1 of 5 in The Inheritance Cycle

2002 • 1,880 Readers • 518 pages 3.6

The Alchemist

1988 • 2,759 Readers • 181 pages 3.5

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 6 in Time Quintet

1962 • 1,634 Readers • 247 pages 3.8

The Cruel Prince

#1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air

2018 • 1,787 Readers • 384 pages 3.8

The Stranger

1942 • 2,489 Readers • 134 pages 3.9

Speaker for the Dead

#2 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1986 • 912 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 1,306 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

2018 • 1,132 Readers • 306 pages 3.7

Legends & Lattes

#1 of 1 in Legends & Lattes

2022 • 2,285 Readers • 304 pages 4.2

The Starless Sea

2019 • 1,237 Readers • 487 pages 4

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,784 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

Lord of the Flies

1954 • 3,186 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

Crooked Kingdom

#2 of 2 in Six of Crows

2016 • 1,353 Readers • 546 pages 4.4

Ancillary Justice

#1 of 5 in Imperial Radch

2013 • 1,149 Readers • 416 pages 4

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,495 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

Gone Girl

2011 • 2,211 Readers • 415 pages 3.9

Holes

#1 of 2 in Holes

1988 • 1,011 Readers • 263 pages 4

Cloud Atlas

2003 • 1,222 Readers • 509 pages 3.9

Carry On

#1 of 3 in Simon Snow

2015 • 735 Readers • 531 pages 4.1

The Last Olympian

#5 of 9 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2009 • 1,443 Readers • 381 pages 4.3

The Amber Spyglass

#3 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1999 • 973 Readers • 518 pages 4

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,707 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

The Last Wish

#0.5 of 7 in The Witcher

1993 • 1,735 Readers • 352 pages 4.1

Interview with the Vampire

#1 of 13 in The Vampire Chronicles

1976 • 1,135 Readers • 346 pages 3.8

Neverwhere

#1 of 1 in London Below, The World of Neverwhere

1996 • 1,737 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

Wool

#1 of 3 in Silo

2011 • 1,524 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

Oryx and Crake

#1 of 3 in MaddAddam

2002 • 898 Readers • 402 pages 3.9

Hamlet

1600 • 1,423 Readers • 508 pages 4

The Dispossessed

#6 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1974 • 1,109 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

Of Mice and Men

1937 • 2,611 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

The Da Vinci Code

#2 of 5 in Robert Langdon

2003 • 2,372 Readers • 489 pages 3.5

Rhythm of War

#4 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2020 • 1,556 Readers • 1,232 pages 4.6

A Prayer For Owen Meany

1989 • 445 Readers • 79 pages 4.1

The Pillars of the Earth

#1 of 4 in Kingsbridge

1800 • 1,179 Readers • 1,008 pages 4.1

A Monster Calls

2011 • 723 Readers • 226 pages 4.3

Cat's Cradle

1963 • 1,371 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

Skyward

#1 of 4 in Skyward

2018 • 1,261 Readers • 530 pages 4.4

A Thousand Splendid Suns

2000 • 1,203 Readers • 372 pages 4.3

The Will of the Many

#1 of 1 in Hierarchy

2023 • 1,506 Readers • 639 pages 4.5

Mockingjay

#3 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2009 • 3,134 Readers • 390 pages 3.8

Kafka on the Shore

2001 • 1,585 Readers • 468 pages 4

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 6 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

2006 • 3,588 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

The Master and Margarita

1918 • 1,180 Readers • 424 pages 4.2

Seveneves

2015 • 1,029 Readers • 867 pages 3.9

Heir of Fire

#3 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2014 • 1,104 Readers • 581 pages 4.3

The Giver

#1 of 5 in The Giver

1993 • 2,313 Readers • 202 pages 4

The World According to Garp

1978 • 326 Readers • 610 pages 4

Gone with the Wind

196 • 828 Readers • 976 pages 4

Kindred

1979 • 1,134 Readers • 287 pages 4.4

Siddhartha

1922 • 1,349 Readers • 152 pages 3.9

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

2013 • 1,830 Readers • 304 pages 4

The Haunting of Hill House

1959 • 1,238 Readers • 288 pages 3.7

Anathem

2008 • 722 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.1

Memoirs of a Geisha

1997 • 1,169 Readers • 435 pages 4

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

1987 • 1,027 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

1959 • 743 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Never Let Me Go

2000 • 2,101 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

A Darker Shade of Magic

#1 of 3 in Shades of Magic

2014 • 2,088 Readers • 496 pages 4