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.

Into the Wild

1996 • 980 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

1985 • 1,064 Readers • 263 pages 3.9

White Oleander

1999 • 269 Readers • 446 pages 3.8

Demon in White

#3 of 6 in The Sun Eater

2020 • 225 Readers • 1,085 pages 4.6

The Well of Ascension

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

20 • 2,499 Readers • 624 pages 4.3

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,428 Readers • 443 pages 4.2

The Assassin's Blade

#0.1-0.5 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2014 • 848 Readers • 195 pages 4

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

#1 of 7 in Millennium

2005 • 2,292 Readers • 465 pages 4.1

All the Light We Cannot See

2014 • 1,958 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

The White Dragon

#5 of 21 in Pern

1978 • 146 Readers • 497 pages 3.9

A Tale for the Time Being

2013 • 501 Readers • 432 pages 4

The Shadow of the Torturer

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1980 • 604 Readers • 276 pages 3.7

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

#1 of 3 in Emily Wilde

2022 • 1,335 Readers • 354 pages 4.1

Homegoing

2016 • 816 Readers • 468 pages 4.5

The Color Purple

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

1976 • 1,145 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

Crown of Midnight

#2 of 8 in Throne of Glass

2013 • 1,219 Readers • 420 pages 4.2

Howling Dark

#2 of 6 in The Sun Eater

1950 • 292 Readers • 688 pages 4.4

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 629 Readers • 515 pages 4

Misery

1987 • 1,375 Readers • 370 pages 4.1

Angels & Demons

#1 of 5 in Robert Langdon

2000 • 1,920 Readers • 736 pages 3.6

Death's End

#3 of 4 in The Three-Body Problem

2010 • 1,060 Readers • 604 pages 4.4

Light from Uncommon Stars

2021 • 662 Readers • 13h 13m 4.1

The Martian Chronicles

1950 • 1,076 Readers • 182 pages 4

Novecento. Un monologo

1994 • 45 Readers • 51 pages 4.3

The Way of Shadows

#1 of 4 in Night Angel

2008 • 701 Readers • 395 pages 4

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

2017 • 1,243 Readers • 336 pages 4.1

The Gunslinger

#1 of 7 in The Dark Tower

1982 • 1,915 Readers • 238 pages 3.6

Me Talk Pretty One Day

2000 • 653 Readers 4

A Christmas Carol

#1 of 1 in The Christmas Books of Charles Dickens

195 • 1,136 Readers • 112 pages 4.1

Tuesdays with Morrie

11 • 754 Readers • 192 pages 3.8

The Plague

1942 • 821 Readers • 304 pages 4

Small Gods

#13 of 41 in Discworld

1992 • 646 Readers • 388 pages 4.3

Solaris

1961 • 827 Readers • 222 pages 3.8

The Tombs of Atuan

#2 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1970 • 531 Readers • 256 pages 4

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

1995 • 579 Readers • 536 pages 4.1

Elantris

14 The Cosmere

2005 • 1,749 Readers • 656 pages 4

Invisible Man

1952 • 640 Readers • 610 pages 3.8

Dune Messiah

#2 of 8 in Dune

1969 • 1,695 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

Divergent

#1 of 3 in Divergent

2011 • 2,144 Readers • 487 pages 3.7

The Devil in the White City

2002 • 1,083 Readers • 447 pages 4

The Secret Garden

1865 • 1,154 Readers • 292 pages 4

Deadhouse Gates

#2 of 10 in Malazan Book of the Fallen

2000 • 479 Readers • 614 pages 4.2

Rendezvous with Rama

#1 of 4 in Rama

1973 • 865 Readers • 252 pages 3.9

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#0 in Oprah's

2012 • 636 Readers • 338 pages 3.9

Beartown

#1 of 3 in Beartown

2014 • 809 Readers • 689 pages 4.4

I, Robot

#0.1 of 4 in Robot

1950 • 1,434 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

The Kite Runner

1969 • 1,983 Readers • 401 pages 4.2

Hatchet

#1 of 7 in Brian's Saga

1986 • 519 Readers • 214 pages 3.6

Steppenwolf

1927 • 440 Readers 4

Shōgun

#1 of 6 in Asian Saga: Chronological Order

1975 • 771 Readers • 1,218 pages 4.2

A Little Hatred

#1 of 3 in The Age of Madness

2014 • 709 Readers • 20 pages 4.4

Under the Whispering Door

2021 • 1,098 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

The Tale of Despereaux

2003 • 257 Readers • 267 pages 3.9

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

1959 • 450 Readers • 270 pages 4.5

Assassin's Fate

#3 of 3 in Fitz and the Fool

2017 • 265 Readers • 45h 2m 4.6

Harry Potter: The Complete Collection

#1-7 of 8 in Harry Potter

1999 • 164 Readers • 225 pages 4.6

Crying in H Mart

2021 • 1,336 Readers • 239 pages 4.2

The Raven Boys

#1 of 4 in The Raven Cycle

2012 • 932 Readers • 468 pages 4

On the Road

32 Duluoz Legend

1955 • 924 Readers • 254 pages 3.3

Stranger in a Strange Land

#1 of 1 in Stranger in a Strange Land

1961 • 1,032 Readers • 422 pages 3.7

The Trial

1925 • 1,078 Readers • 255 pages 3.9

The Love Hypothesis

2021 • 1,239 Readers • 383 pages 3.9

The Horse and His Boy

#5 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1954 • 760 Readers • 250 pages 3.8

Sophie's World

1905 • 532 Readers • 427 pages 3.7

The Book of the New Sun

#1 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1980 • 188 Readers • 950 pages 4.6

Demon Copperhead

2022 • 1,112 Readers • 560 pages 4.4

The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings

#0-3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1937 • 277 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

The Heart's Invisible Furies

2017 • 388 Readers • 592 pages 4.6

Let the Right One In

#1 of 1 in Let the Right One In

2004 • 374 Readers • 513 pages 3.9

Ficciones

1944 • 387 Readers • 192 pages 4.2

The Spear Cuts Through Water

2022 • 624 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

House of Earth and Blood

#1 of 3 in Crescent City

2014 • 1,428 Readers • 803 pages 4.3

Vicious

#1 of 2 in Villains

2013 • 1,516 Readers • 366 pages 4.1

In Memoriam

2023 • 268 Readers • 386 pages 4.5

Record of a Spaceborn Few

#3 of 4 in Wayfarers

2018 • 555 Readers • 368 pages 4.2

Les Miserables

1862 • 68 Readers • 1,468 pages 4.2

The Poppy War

#1 of 3 in The Poppy War

2018 • 2,336 Readers • 544 pages 4

The Anthropocene Reviewed

2019 • 830 Readers • 305 pages 4.4

The Ballad of Never After

#2 of 3 in Once Upon a Broken Heart

2022 • 459 Readers • 403 pages 4.4

The Nickel Boys

2019 • 619 Readers • 224 pages 4.3

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1943 • 538 Readers • 496 pages 4.1

All The Pretty Horses

#1 of 3 in The Border Trilogy

1992 • 435 Readers • 322 pages 4

The Godfather

#1 of 8 in The Godfather

1969 • 643 Readers • 452 pages 4.3

Uzumaki

#1 of 3 in Uzumaki

1999 • 479 Readers • 648 pages 4.3

The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

#1 of 2 in Don Quijote de la Mancha

1605 • 1,025 Readers • 1,023 pages 3.8

Love, Theoretically

2022 • 696 Readers • 389 pages 4.1

Crazy Rich Asians

#1 of 3 in Crazy Rich Asians

2013 • 650 Readers • 450 pages 3.7

A Short History of Nearly Everything

2003 • 1,267 Readers • 705 pages 4.2

The Colour of Magic

#1 of 41 in Discworld

1983 • 1,807 Readers • 292 pages 3.8

Tehanu

#4 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1990 • 272 Readers • 320 pages 3.8

Lessons in Chemistry

2022 • 1,378 Readers • 386 pages 4.1

Unsouled

#1 of 13 in Cradle

2016 • 595 Readers • 291 pages 3.9

Middlesex

2002 • 765 Readers • 548 pages 4.1

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 1,025 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

Strange the Dreamer

#1 of 2 in Strange the Dreamer

2016 • 772 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

The Hound of the Baskervilles

#5 of 39 in Sherlock Holmes

1900 • 646 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

Middlemarch

#2 of 2 in Middlemarch (2 volumes)

1831 • 633 Readers • 840 pages 4.2

Assassin's Quest

#3 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1997 • 801 Readers • 1,154 pages 4.1