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.

Books4,159

Answers10,372

Readers1,846

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Jade Legacy Fonda Lee	4.62	247 reads
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers	4.33	521 reads
If We Were Villains M.L. Rio	3.95	528 reads
I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman	4.26	293 reads
Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	3.99	898 reads
Heir of Fire Sarah J. Maas	4.31	916 reads
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl	4.23	895 reads
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon	3.82	1,321 reads
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka David Wyllie (Translator)	3.83	1,568 reads
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton	3.87	716 reads
The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis	3.84	864 reads
A Darker Shade of Magic V.E. Schwab	3.97	1,078 reads
Artificial Condition Martha Wells	4.17	1,523 reads
Les Misérables Victor Hugo Norman Denny (Translator)	4.17	453 reads
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.94	718 reads
Elantris Brandon Sanderson	4.06	1,312 reads
Wonder R.J. Palacio	4.18	508 reads
Foundation Isaac Asimov	3.99	1,492 reads
Beach Read Emily Henry	3.92	877 reads
The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	3.74	709 reads
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens	4.07	1,164 reads
Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.36	541 reads
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4	639 reads
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll	3.9	888 reads
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler	4.13	683 reads
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson	4.46	634 reads
Vampire Academy Richelle Mead	3.69	414 reads
Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman	4.37	662 reads
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster	4.26	438 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.89	441 reads
Warbreaker Brandon Sanderson	4.18	1,226 reads
The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides	3.8	1,448 reads
Cinder Marissa Meyer	3.98	786 reads
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.82	1,137 reads
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy	4.47	1,539 reads
Empire of Storms Sarah J. Maas	4.47	708 reads
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden	3.96	775 reads
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman	4.04	1,243 reads
Normal People Sally Rooney	3.63	1,254 reads
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman	4.19	927 reads
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King	4.31	666 reads
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	4.06	1,073 reads
Heir to the Empire Timothy Zahn	4.04	388 reads
We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor	4.19	848 reads
The Overstory Richard Powers	4.07	313 reads
Doomsday Book Connie Willis Rafael Marín Trechera (Translator)	3.83	250 reads
Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings	3.89	303 reads
No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Donald Keene (Translator)	3.86	570 reads
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde	3.9	299 reads
Angels & Demons Dan Brown	3.61	1,777 reads
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	4.14	376 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.12	595 reads
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole	3.86	354 reads
Howling Dark Christopher Ruocchio	4.44	185 reads
The Well of Ascension Brandon Sanderson	4.33	2,264 reads
Fangirl Rainbow Rowell	3.91	642 reads
The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey	3.86	122 reads
Memories of Ice Steven Erikson	4.56	271 reads
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.93	885 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.29	564 reads
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki	4.01	188 reads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain	4.01	584 reads
The Dark Forest Cixin Liu Joel Martinsen (Translator)	4.26	989 reads
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story Douglas Adams	4.4	609 reads
Stoner John Williams	4.42	440 reads
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.26	304 reads
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell	3.97	292 reads
Death's End Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	4.34	790 reads
A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas	4.22	1,029 reads
The Time Machine H. G. Wells	3.7	967 reads
Heartstopper: Volume One Alice Oseman	4.42	987 reads
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Mannheim (Translator)	4.18	303 reads
The Host Stephenie Meyer	3.59	570 reads
Demon in White Christopher Ruocchio	4.61	121 reads
A Memory of Light Brandon Sanderson Robert Jordan	4.57	482 reads
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk	4.05	948 reads
1Q84 Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin (Translator) Philip Gabriel	3.68	516 reads
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens	4.05	891 reads
Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu	3.81	414 reads
Alanna: The First Adventure Tamora Pierce	4.08	238 reads
Legendborn Tracy Deonn	4.27	343 reads
The Foxhole Court Nora Sakavic	3.61	170 reads
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett	4.11	507 reads
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.87	287 reads
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins	3.72	1,008 reads
The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie	4.11	1,140 reads
Old Man's War John Scalzi	4.14	936 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.21	1,381 reads
Misery Stephen King	4.1	861 reads
Clockwork Princess Cassandra Clare	4.41	393 reads
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.83	670 reads
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe	4.38	178 reads
Mort Terry Pratchett	4.08	910 reads
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy	3.66	208 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.64	555 reads
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett	4.04	793 reads
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection J. K. Rowling	4.55	151 reads
Contact Carl Sagan	4.06	353 reads
Redwall Brian Jacques	3.98	322 reads
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	4.23	164 reads