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
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer	3.72	1,066 reads
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin	3.89	901 reads
Throne of Glass Sarah J. Maas	3.88	1,255 reads
Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	4.14	560 reads
The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon	4.09	584 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88	2,255 reads
Uprooted Naomi Novik	3.97	616 reads
A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles	4.22	500 reads
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Henning Koch (Translator)	4.37	842 reads
Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson	4.55	1,294 reads
Tress of the Emerald Sea Brandon Sanderson	4.46	948 reads
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy	4.1	435 reads
Harrow the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.18	469 reads
Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover	4.43	1,051 reads
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin	4.06	744 reads
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine	4.15	533 reads
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath	3.95	966 reads
The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien	3.93	628 reads
Sabriel Garth Nix	4.14	398 reads
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks	3.9	954 reads
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin	3.91	927 reads
A Storm of Swords George R.R. Martin	4.54	1,619 reads
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers	4.14	939 reads
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	3.99	456 reads
The Hero of Ages Brandon Sanderson	4.56	1,828 reads
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry	4.62	236 reads
The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss	4.41	1,304 reads
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer	4.53	239 reads
Outlander Diana Gabaldon	3.9	589 reads
The Princess Bride William Goldman	4.18	842 reads
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson	4.17	867 reads
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke	3.99	637 reads
It Stephen King	4.06	1,004 reads
Catching Fire Suzanne Collins	4.1	3,232 reads
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis	4.11	671 reads
Matilda Roald Dahl	4.28	821 reads
Kingdom of Ash Sarah J. Maas	4.56	557 reads
The Outsiders S. E. Hinton	3.94	970 reads
Eragon Christopher Paolini	3.63	1,452 reads
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho	3.5	1,919 reads
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle	3.77	1,171 reads
The Cruel Prince Holly Black	3.8	932 reads
The Stranger Albert Camus Matthew Ward (Translator)	3.93	1,540 reads
Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card	4.14	726 reads
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger	3.95	778 reads
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh	3.72	548 reads
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera Michael Henry Heim (Translator)	3.89	423 reads
Legends & Lattes Travis Baldree	4.15	1,332 reads
The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern	3.97	445 reads
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson	3.94	956 reads
Lord of the Flies William Golding	3.56	2,291 reads
Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo	4.45	893 reads
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie	3.99	638 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.81	733 reads
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	3.95	1,461 reads
Holes Louis Sachar	3.97	847 reads
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.93	518 reads
Carry On Rainbow Rowell	4.09	441 reads
The Last Olympian Rick Riordan	4.32	1,246 reads
The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman	4.02	796 reads
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.11	485 reads
The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski	4.06	1,235 reads
Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice	3.76	700 reads
Neverwhere Neil Gaiman	4.12	1,043 reads
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones James Clear	4.21	1,407 reads
Wool Hugh Howey	4.12	952 reads
Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood	3.89	461 reads
Hamlet William Shakespeare Millôr Fernandes (Translator)	4.04	1,088 reads
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass: Lavishly Illustrated with Interactive Elements Lewis Carroll	3.98	646 reads
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin	4.21	451 reads
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck	3.8	1,931 reads
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown	3.54	2,045 reads
Rhythm of War Brandon Sanderson	4.55	996 reads
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer	4.27	405 reads
A Prayer For Owen Meany John Irving	4.09	242 reads
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett	4.08	573 reads
A Monster Calls Patrick Ness	4.34	403 reads
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut	4.09	800 reads
Skyward Brandon Sanderson	4.41	698 reads
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini	4.34	617 reads
The Will of the Many James Islington	4.54	451 reads
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins	3.8	2,859 reads
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	3.99	813 reads
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	3.94	1,904 reads
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator) Diana Lewis Burgin (Translator)	4.17	476 reads
Seveneves Neal Stephenson	3.91	548 reads
Heir of Fire Sarah J. Maas	4.31	851 reads
The Giver Lois Lowry	3.99	1,798 reads
The World According to Garp John Irving	3.96	185 reads
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell	4.04	352 reads
Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.36	518 reads
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Hilda Rosner (Translator)	3.94	823 reads
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman	4.04	1,172 reads
The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	3.74	661 reads
Anathem Neal Stephenson	4.13	315 reads
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden	3.96	738 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.91	411 reads
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.	3.94	352 reads
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.81	1,015 reads
A Darker Shade of Magic V.E. Schwab	3.97	1,008 reads