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.

Books3,965

Answers9,698

Readers1,732

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Lost Story Meg Shaffer	4.13	27 reads
New Hampshire Robert Frost	3.4	7 reads
The Inquisitor's Tale Adam Gidwitz	3.64	20 reads
Hagard Lukas Bärfuss	2	2 reads
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town Barbara Demick	4.27	12 reads
Film Art David Bordwell Kristin Thompson	5	10 reads
Crave	3.4	136 reads
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt	4.32	55 reads
Those Across the River Christopher Buehlman	3.68	50 reads
The Secret Julie Garwood	3.86	27 reads
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Michael A. Singer	3.79	117 reads
Saga, Compendium One	4.81	40 reads
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies John Langan	4.07	20 reads
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs	4.18	52 reads
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady Nancy Springer	3.64	25 reads
The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound 3 Noret Flood puddles4263	4.4	16 reads
Una princesa en Berlín Arthur R.G. Solmssen Raúl Acuña (Translator)	5	1 read
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond	3.86	31 reads
A Normal Life: The Struggles of a Wanted Man Vassilis Palaiokostas	5	1 read
QualityLand Marc-Uwe Kling Carles Andreu Saburit (Translator)	3.89	96 reads
Wild Swans Jung Chang	0	0 reads
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Richard Bach	3.92	76 reads
Nutshell Ian McEwan	3.78	46 reads
All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven	4	292 reads
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God Marilyn McCord Adams	5	2 reads
The Drowned Cities Paolo Bacigalupi	3.9	25 reads
Love Story Erich Segal	3.59	44 reads
Be Here Now Ram Dass	4.39	29 reads
He Who Drowned the World Shelley Parker-Chan	4.26	54 reads
The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey	3.97	137 reads
Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell	4.02	128 reads
Timaeus and Critias Plato,	5	1 read
Any Human Heart William Boyd	4.05	24 reads
Invader C. J. Cherryh	4.12	22 reads
Third Year at Malory Towers Enid Blyton	4	22 reads
Speaks the Nightbird Robert R. McCammon	4.09	33 reads
When Stars Are Scattered Victoria Jamieson Omar Mohamed	4.69	34 reads
Hercule Poirot's Christmas Agatha Christie	3.83	177 reads
World's end Mark Chadbourn	3	6 reads
A Taste of Honey Kai Ashante Wilson	3.68	23 reads
The primrose way Jackie French Koller	0	0 reads
A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov	3.71	68 reads
JR William Gaddis	4.86	11 reads
Bound Tiffany Roberts	4.38	9 reads
Nyxia Uprising Scott Reintgen	4	10 reads
The Inadequate Heir Danielle L. Jensen	4.06	34 reads
Princeps' Fury Jim Butcher	4.07	165 reads
Kushiel's Avatar Jacqueline Carey	4.05	81 reads
Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud Martha Wells	3.67	20 reads
Hogfather Terry Pratchett	4.2	388 reads
His Dark Materials Trilogy Philip Pullman	3.75	11 reads
Nesten sanne historier om Rune Lisbeth Berg Rune Berg	5	1 read
Edenbrooke Julianne Donaldson	3.67	29 reads
Where Machines Run with Gold Where Machines Run with Gold Benjanun Sriduangkaew	0	0 reads
Awake at Dawn C. C. Hunter	3.92	34 reads
The Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson	0	1 read
Hissy Fit Mary Kay Andrews	3	4 reads
Treachery in Death J. D. Robb	4.25	25 reads
The Railway Children Edith Nesbit	3.98	51 reads
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry	4.09	50 reads
One's Company Ashley Hutson	3.91	20 reads
Legend David Gemmell	3.84	81 reads
How Much for Just the Planet? John M. Ford	3.28	15 reads
Tipping The Velvet Sarah Waters	3.98	77 reads
Sorcery of Thorns Margaret Rogerson	4.09	226 reads
Arrows of the Queen Mercedes Lackey	3.41	96 reads
Black Beauty Anna Sewell	3.72	164 reads
How to Read a Book Mortimer J. Adler Charles Van Doren	3.79	108 reads
Titan John Varley	3.67	32 reads
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson	4.2	128 reads
Daisy Darker Alice Feeney	3.78	208 reads
L'Assassinio di Pitagora Marcos Chicot	4.67	3 reads
A Walk in the Dark Arthur C. Clarke	4.5	2 reads
The North Water Ian McGuire	3.91	67 reads
Threshold Sara Douglass	5	5 reads
Time Tunnel Murray Leinster	4	1 read
The Man on the Mountaintop The Man on the Mountaintop: An Audible Original Drama Susan Trott	3.7	10 reads
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on Franny Choi	3.72	13 reads
Pastorale americana Philip Roth	4.63	6 reads
Dust Hugh Howey Michiel van Sleen (Translator)	4.16	415 reads
The pigman Paul Zindel	3.38	31 reads
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra	4.57	39 reads
Shatter Me Tahereh Mafi	3.48	530 reads
The Pump The Pump Sydney Hegele	5	2 reads
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame	3.86	209 reads
A Week of Mondays Jessica Brody	3.75	5 reads
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Edith Grossman (Translator)	3.78	374 reads
The Good Neighbor Maxwell King	4.1	24 reads
The Faded Sun Trilogy Omnibus C. J. Cherryh	4.38	4 reads
Den lille piken med svovelstikkene Hans Christian Andersen	5	1 read
Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier	3.8	19 reads
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)	3.79	203 reads
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting Clare Pooley	4.04	35 reads
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Julie Berry	3.61	11 reads
Heartsong TJ Klune	4.32	42 reads
L'Anomalie Hervé Le Tellier	4.02	25 reads
Ghost in the Shell Masamune Shirow	4.13	44 reads
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver	4.07	61 reads
Sin Corazón Marissa Meyer Guiomar Manso de Zúñiga (Translator)	4	7 reads
To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers	4.19	390 reads