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.

Books3,953

Answers9,639

Readers1,721

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Kindred Octavia E. Butler	4.36	518 reads
Beach Read Emily Henry	3.94	822 reads
A Darker Shade of Magic V.E. Schwab	3.97	1,012 reads
The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman	4.11	903 reads
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens	4.07	1,042 reads
The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson	3.74	661 reads
Foundation Isaac Asimov	3.98	1,344 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.91	412 reads
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah	4.34	507 reads
Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.24	562 reads
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Hilda Rosner (Translator)	3.94	829 reads
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4	599 reads
Watchmen Alan Moore	4.43	1,129 reads
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster	4.25	416 reads
Empire of Storms Sarah J. Maas	4.48	657 reads
Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid	4.06	896 reads
If We Were Villains M.L. Rio	3.94	487 reads
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy	4.48	1,469 reads
Normal People Sally Rooney	3.63	1,186 reads
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.82	1,017 reads
Vampire Academy Richelle Mead	3.7	384 reads
I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman	4.24	236 reads
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman	4.04	1,175 reads
Anathem Neal Stephenson	4.14	318 reads
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk	4.06	862 reads
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman	4.19	855 reads
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton	3.86	684 reads
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin (Translator)	4.06	525 reads
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers	4.33	481 reads
We Are Legion Dennis E. Taylor	4.19	741 reads
Heir to the Empire Timothy Zahn	4.06	361 reads
The Overstory Richard Powers	4.07	298 reads
Doomsday Book Connie Willis Rafael Marín Trechera (Translator)	3.82	244 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.11	554 reads
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	4.16	338 reads
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King	4.31	618 reads
Cinder Marissa Meyer	4	750 reads
Perdido Street Station China Miéville	3.98	289 reads
Fangirl Rainbow Rowell	3.92	609 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.27	496 reads
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery Agatha Christie	4.22	551 reads
Wonder R.J. Palacio	4.19	473 reads
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll	3.89	813 reads
Stoner John Williams	4.46	394 reads
The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides	3.79	1,345 reads
A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas	4.22	964 reads
Memories of Ice Steven Erikson	4.54	249 reads
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story Douglas Adams	4.41	560 reads
Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett	4.23	673 reads
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess	3.92	817 reads
Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman	4.34	510 reads
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler	4.14	639 reads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain	4.01	556 reads
Heartstopper: Volume One Alice Oseman	4.41	929 reads
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter Brandon Sanderson	4.46	558 reads
The Host Stephenie Meyer	3.58	531 reads
The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde	3.9	289 reads
1Q84 Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin (Translator) Philip Gabriel	3.66	469 reads
Royal Assassin Robin Hobb	4.26	672 reads
A Memory of Light Brandon Sanderson Robert Jordan	4.57	439 reads
Warbreaker Brandon Sanderson	4.16	1,119 reads
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind John E. Woods (Translator)	3.9	560 reads
My Heart Is a Chainsaw Stephen Graham Jones	3.73	176 reads
Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu	3.79	376 reads
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr	4.27	314 reads
Alanna: The First Adventure Tamora Pierce	4.11	228 reads
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie	4.06	1,000 reads
The Foxhole Court Nora Sakavic	3.61	156 reads
Legendborn Tracy Deonn	4.26	320 reads
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett	4.11	476 reads
Golden Son Pierce Brown	4.43	1,110 reads
Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings	3.89	288 reads
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins	3.71	925 reads
Misery Stephen King	4.1	813 reads
No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Donald Keene (Translator)	3.88	473 reads
Angels & Demons Dan Brown	3.6	1,629 reads
Artificial Condition Martha Wells	4.17	1,343 reads
A Court of Wings and Ruin Sarah J. Maas	4.2	1,364 reads
The Humans Matt Haig	3.94	285 reads
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.84	627 reads
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe	4.36	164 reads
Clockwork Princess Cassandra Clare	4.41	367 reads
The Well of Ascension Brandon Sanderson	4.33	2,026 reads
Howling Dark Christopher Ruocchio	4.44	169 reads
Mort Terry Pratchett	4.07	841 reads
The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie	4.1	1,043 reads
The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey	3.87	116 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.22	1,255 reads
Contact Carl Sagan	4.07	335 reads
Old Man's War John Scalzi	4.13	864 reads
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.84	265 reads
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki	4.01	174 reads
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.47	332 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.65	516 reads
Redwall Brian Jacques	3.97	306 reads
White Oleander Janet Fitch	3.84	145 reads
Empire of Silence Christopher Ruocchio	3.99	300 reads
The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.16	498 reads
The Assassin's Blade Sarah J. Maas	4.03	604 reads
The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester	3.84	211 reads