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.

Kindred

1979 • 1,134 Readers • 287 pages 4.4

Beach Read

#1 of 1 in Beach Read

2020 • 1,309 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

A Darker Shade of Magic

#1 of 3 in Shades of Magic

2014 • 2,089 Readers • 496 pages 4

The Subtle Knife

#2 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1995 • 1,085 Readers • 326 pages 4.1

Where the Crawdads Sing

2018 • 1,697 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

The Haunting of Hill House

1959 • 1,238 Readers • 288 pages 3.7

Foundation

#1 of 9 in Foundation (Publication Order)

1951 • 2,213 Readers • 255 pages 4

Beloved

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

1987 • 1,027 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

The Nightingale

2015 • 1,157 Readers • 448 pages 4.3

Pachinko

2017 • 1,456 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

Siddhartha

1922 • 1,350 Readers • 152 pages 3.9

Anna Karenina

1877 • 1,600 Readers • 1,480 pages 4

Watchmen

#1 of 12 in Watchmen

1987 • 1,539 Readers • 415 pages 4.4

The Phantom Tollbooth

1961 • 576 Readers • 268 pages 4.3

Empire of Storms

#5 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2016 • 950 Readers • 689 pages 4.5

Daisy Jones & The Six

Reidverse

2019 • 1,516 Readers • 422 pages 4.1

If We Were Villains

2017 • 1,327 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

I'm Glad My Mom Died

2022 • 2,244 Readers • 313 pages 4.5

Normal People

#1 of 2 in Normal People

2018 • 2,014 Readers • 273 pages 3.6

Never Let Me Go

2000 • 2,102 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

Vampire Academy

#1 of 8 in Vampire Academy

2007 • 556 Readers • 514 pages 3.7

I Who Have Never Known Men

1995 • 829 Readers • 208 pages 4.2

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

2013 • 1,831 Readers • 304 pages 4

Anathem

2008 • 722 Readers • 1,092 pages 4.1

Fight Club

#1 of 2 in Fight Club

1996 • 1,416 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

The Graveyard Book

#1 of 2 in The Graveyard Book

2008 • 1,340 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

1984 • 1,462 Readers • 528 pages 3.9

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

1994 • 1,009 Readers • 607 pages 4.1

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

#2 of 2 in Monk and Robot

2022 • 682 Readers • 160 pages 4.3

Murder on the Orient Express

#10 of 45 in Hercule Poirot

1901 • 1,457 Readers • 232 pages 4.1

We Are Legion

#1 of 5 in Bobiverse

2016 • 1,156 Readers • 299 pages 4.2

Heir to the Empire

#1 of 3 in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

1991 • 533 Readers • 528 pages 4.1

The Overstory

2018 • 811 Readers • 502 pages 4.1

Doomsday Book

#1 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

1992 • 503 Readers • 593 pages 3.8

No Country for Old Men

2005 • 706 Readers • 309 pages 4.2

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

1999 • 1,003 Readers • 288 pages 4.3

Cinder

#1 of 5 in The Lunar Chronicles

2011 • 1,227 Readers • 448 pages 4

Perdido Street Station

#1 of 8 in New Crobuzon

2000 • 731 Readers • 24h 9m 4

Fangirl

#1 of 1 in Fangirl

2001 • 882 Readers • 406 pages 3.9

Exhalation

2008 • 1,064 Readers • 208 pages 4.3

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

#4 of 45 in Hercule Poirot

-2100 • 797 Readers • 306 pages 4.2

Wonder

#1 of 3 in Wonder

2012 • 685 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

#1 of 3 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1864 • 1,054 Readers • 132 pages 3.9

Stoner

1965 • 914 Readers • 305 pages 4.5

The Silent Patient

2018 • 2,188 Readers • 336 pages 3.8

A ​Court of Silver Flames

#5 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2021 • 1,447 Readers • 768 pages 4.2

Memories of Ice

#3 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen

2001 • 384 Readers • 1,180 pages 4.5

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

#1-5 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 834 Readers • 756 pages 4.4

Guards! Guards!

#8 of 41 in Discworld

1989 • 978 Readers • 344 pages 4.2

A Clockwork Orange

1962 • 1,698 Readers • 72 pages 3.9

Dungeon Crawler Carl

#1 of 7 in Dungeon Crawler Carl

2020 • 1,006 Readers • 446 pages 4.3

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

1993 • 1,465 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

1 Quiet

2012 • 1,248 Readers • 370 pages 4

Heartstopper: Volume One

#1 of 11 in Heartstopper

2016 • 1,137 Readers • 263 pages 4.4

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

#3 of 4 in Secret Projects

2023 • 1,041 Readers • 480 pages 4.5

The Host

#1 of 1 in The Host

2005 • 689 Readers • 539 pages 3.6

The Eyre Affair

#1 of 7 in Thursday Next

2001 • 521 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

1Q84

#1-3 of 3 in 1Q84

2009 • 1,099 Readers • 1,184 pages 3.7

Royal Assassin

#2 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1996 • 910 Readers • 648 pages 4.3

A Memory of Light

#14 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

2013 • 634 Readers • 909 pages 4.6

Warbreaker

13 The Cosmere

2009 • 1,595 Readers • 688 pages 4.2

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

1985 • 1,053 Readers • 263 pages 3.9

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

#1 of 3 in The Indian Lake Trilogy

2021 • 509 Readers 3.7

Carmilla

#1 of 1 in Karstein Chronicles

1872 • 706 Readers • 108 pages 3.8

Cloud Cuckoo Land

2021 • 862 Readers • 640 pages 4.3

Alanna: The First Adventure

#1 of 4 in Song of the Lioness

1983 • 365 Readers • 274 pages 4.1

The Foxhole Court

#1 of 5 in All for the Game

2013 • 313 Readers 3.6

Legendborn

#1 of 3 in The Legendborn Cycle

2020 • 948 Readers • 512 pages 4.3

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

#1 of 3 in Emily Wilde

2022 • 1,330 Readers • 354 pages 4.1

Golden Son

#2 of 6 in Red Rising Saga

2015 • 1,475 Readers • 442 pages 4.4

Pawn of Prophecy

#1 of 5 in The Belgariad

1982 • 527 Readers • 262 pages 3.9

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

#0 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2020 • 1,518 Readers • 528 pages 3.7

Misery

1987 • 1,366 Readers • 370 pages 4.1

No Longer Human

1948 • 1,021 Readers • 196 pages 3.9

Angels & Demons

#1 of 5 in Robert Langdon

2000 • 1,909 Readers • 736 pages 3.6

Artificial Condition

#2 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

2018 • 1,583 Readers • 144 pages 4.2

A Court of Wings and Ruin

#3 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2017 • 1,698 Readers • 753 pages 4.2

The Humans

2013 • 587 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

Into the Wild

1996 • 978 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1849 • 349 Readers • 821 pages 4.4

Clockwork Princess

#3 of 3 in The Infernal Devices

2013 • 533 Readers • 568 pages 4.4

The Well of Ascension

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

2007 • 2,483 Readers • 624 pages 4.3

Howling Dark

#2 of 6 in The Sun Eater

1950 • 291 Readers • 688 pages 4.4

Mort

#4 of 41 in Discworld

1987 • 1,129 Readers • 272 pages 4.1

The Blade Itself

#1 of 5 in The First Law

2001 • 2,029 Readers • 560 pages 4.1

The White Dragon

#5 of 21 in Pern

1978 • 146 Readers • 497 pages 3.9

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,410 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

Contact

1985 • 702 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

Old Man's War

#1 of 6 in Old Man's War

2005 • 1,355 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

The God of Small Things

1997 • 633 Readers • 344 pages 3.8

A Tale for the Time Being

2013 • 499 Readers • 432 pages 4

Homegoing

2016 • 811 Readers • 468 pages 4.5

The Complete Maus

#1 of 2 in Maus

1980 • 853 Readers • 295 pages 4.7

Redwall

#1 of 28 in Redwall

1986 • 506 Readers • 351 pages 4

White Oleander

1999 • 268 Readers • 446 pages 3.8

Empire of Silence

#1 of 6 in The Sun Eater

2018 • 962 Readers • 624 pages 4

The Color Purple

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

1976 • 1,143 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

The Assassin's Blade

#0.1-0.5 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2014 • 844 Readers • 195 pages 4

The Stars My Destination

1955 • 439 Readers • 278 pages 3.8