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.

Lolita

1954 • 2,030 Readers • 331 pages 3.9

A Gentleman in Moscow

2016 • 1,289 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

The Bell Jar

1963 • 2,094 Readers • 234 pages 3.9

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

#1 of 4 in Wayfarers

2014 • 1,870 Readers • 423 pages 4.1

Norwegian Wood

1987 • 1,783 Readers • 389 pages 3.9

Sabriel

#1 of 8 in The Old Kingdom

1995 • 908 Readers • 11h 4.1

A Storm of Swords

#3 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire

2000 • 2,218 Readers • 992 pages 4.5

Throne of Glass

#1 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2012 • 2,124 Readers • 432 pages 3.9

The Princess Bride

1973 • 1,683 Readers • 399 pages 4.2

Red, White & Royal Blue

2003 • 1,588 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 2,046 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

The Priory of the Orange Tree

#1 of 1 in The Roots of Chaos

2018 • 2,026 Readers • 849 pages 4.1

Tress of the Emerald Sea

#1 of 5 in Secret Projects

2023 • 2,193 Readers • 480 pages 4.4

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,743 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

It

1986 • 1,794 Readers • 1,168 pages 4.1

Catching Fire

#2 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2008 • 3,855 Readers • 391 pages 4.1

Blood Meridian

1985 • 1,363 Readers • 368 pages 4.1

The Silmarillion

5 Middle-earth Universe

1977 • 1,294 Readers • 386 pages 3.9

A Man Called Ove

2012 • 1,631 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

Speaker for the Dead

#2 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1986 • 1,011 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

Uprooted

2015 • 1,238 Readers • 438 pages 3.9

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 • 1,623 Readers • 496 pages 3.8

The Hero of Ages

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

2007 • 2,547 Readers • 564 pages 4.6

Outlander

#1 of 13 in Outlander

1974 • 1,177 Readers • 627 pages 3.9

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

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

2019 • 1,724 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

Educated: A Memoir

2018 • 1,939 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

Brave New World

1900 • 3,909 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Harrow the Ninth

#2 of 3 in The Locked Tomb

2020 • 809 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

#1 in Strange & Norrell

2004 • 1,572 Readers • 865 pages 4

Oathbringer

#3 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2017 • 1,984 Readers • 1,243 pages 4.6

Lonesome Dove

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

1985 • 801 Readers • 858 pages 4.6

Eragon

#1 of 5 in The Inheritance Cycle

2002 • 2,046 Readers • 518 pages 3.6

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,961 Readers • 448 pages 4

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

16 World War Z

2006 • 1,475 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

Wool

#1 of 3 in Silo

2011 • 1,706 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Wise Man's Fear

#2 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

24 • 1,826 Readers • 1,107 pages 4.4

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia

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

1956 • 1,014 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

The Dispossessed

#6 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1974 • 1,218 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

Matilda

1390 • 1,050 Readers • 240 pages 4.3

The Starless Sea

2019 • 1,313 Readers • 487 pages 3.9

The Name of the Rose

1980 • 1,119 Readers • 556 pages 4

A Memory Called Empire

#1 of 2 in Teixcalaan

2019 • 1,348 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

Interview with the Vampire

#1 of 13 in The Vampire Chronicles

1976 • 1,220 Readers • 346 pages 3.8

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 6 in Time Quintet

1962 • 1,775 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

2018 • 1,197 Readers • 306 pages 3.7

Skyward

#1 of 4 in Skyward

2018 • 1,386 Readers • 530 pages 4.4

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

2000 • 645 Readers • 706 pages 4.2

The Stranger

1942 • 2,764 Readers • 134 pages 3.9

The Alchemist

1988 • 3,029 Readers • 181 pages 3.5

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 1,397 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

Gone Girl

2011 • 2,365 Readers • 415 pages 3.9

Mockingjay

#3 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2009 • 3,441 Readers • 390 pages 3.8

Legends & Lattes

#1 of 1 in Legends & Lattes

2022 • 2,441 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

The Cruel Prince

#1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air

2018 • 1,918 Readers • 384 pages 3.8

Cloud Atlas

2003 • 1,321 Readers • 509 pages 3.9

The Amber Spyglass

#3 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1999 • 1,079 Readers • 518 pages 4

A Monster Calls

2011 • 759 Readers • 226 pages 4.3

The Giver

#1 of 4 in The Giver

1993 • 2,491 Readers • 202 pages 4

Lord of the Flies

1954 • 3,466 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1980 • 1,006 Readers • 305 pages 3.9

Ancillary Justice

#1 of 5 in Imperial Radch

2013 • 1,250 Readers • 416 pages 4

Rhythm of War

#4 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2020 • 1,730 Readers • 1,232 pages 4.6

Holes

#1 of 2 in Holes

1988 • 1,065 Readers • 263 pages 4

Neverwhere

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

1996 • 1,851 Readers • 480 pages 4.1

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,867 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

Carry On

#1 of 3 in Simon Snow

2015 • 772 Readers • 531 pages 4.1

Kingdom of Ash

#7 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2018 • 923 Readers • 984 pages 4.5

Crooked Kingdom

#2 of 2 in Six of Crows

2016 • 1,450 Readers • 546 pages 4.4

The Last Wish

#0.5 of 7 in The Witcher

1993 • 1,880 Readers • 352 pages 4.1

The Outsiders

1967 • 1,335 Readers • 229 pages 4

Of Mice and Men

1937 • 2,829 Readers • 162 pages 3.8

Hamlet

1600 • 1,528 Readers • 508 pages 4

Watchmen

#1 of 12 in Watchmen

1987 • 1,679 Readers • 415 pages 4.4

Oryx and Crake

#1 of 3 in MaddAddam

2002 • 967 Readers • 402 pages 3.9

The Last Olympian

#5 of 10 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2009 • 1,570 Readers • 381 pages 4.3

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

2006 • 3,952 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

The Da Vinci Code

#2 of 5 in Robert Langdon

2003 • 2,569 Readers • 489 pages 3.6

A Prayer For Owen Meany

1989 • 482 Readers • 79 pages 4.1

Cat's Cradle

1963 • 1,495 Readers • 192 pages 4.1

Kafka on the Shore

2001 • 1,740 Readers • 468 pages 4

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

1959 • 819 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

A Thousand Splendid Suns

2000 • 1,302 Readers • 372 pages 4.3

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

#2 of 2 in Monk and Robot

2022 • 743 Readers • 160 pages 4.3

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

1994 • 1,141 Readers • 607 pages 4

Daisy Jones & The Six

Reidverse

2019 • 1,601 Readers • 422 pages 4.1

War and Peace

190 • 1,315 Readers • 838 pages 4.1

Anathem

#1 of 2 in Anathem

2008 • 796 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.1

Pachinko

2017 • 1,562 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

#4 of 47 in Hercule Poirot

197 • 862 Readers • 306 pages 4.2

If We Were Villains

2017 • 1,424 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

The Subtle Knife

#2 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1995 • 1,183 Readers • 326 pages 4.1

I Who Have Never Known Men

1995 • 956 Readers • 208 pages 4.3

Man's Search for Meaning

1946 • 1,752 Readers • 240 pages 4.2

Heir of Fire

#3 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2014 • 1,184 Readers • 581 pages 4.3

The World According to Garp

1978 • 346 Readers • 610 pages 4

Seveneves

2015 • 1,136 Readers • 867 pages 3.9