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.

Books3,956

Answers9,643

Readers1,723

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.84	627 reads
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind John E. Woods (Translator)	3.91	563 reads
White Oleander Janet Fitch	3.84	145 reads
Demon in White Christopher Ruocchio	4.63	111 reads
The Well of Ascension Brandon Sanderson	4.32	2,032 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.22	1,260 reads
The Assassin's Blade Sarah J. Maas	4.03	607 reads
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson	4.05	1,528 reads
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.19	888 reads
The White Dragon Anne McCaffrey	3.87	116 reads
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki	4.01	174 reads
The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe	3.7	210 reads
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett	4.11	477 reads
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.47	332 reads
The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.16	499 reads
Crown of Midnight Sarah J. Maas	4.23	967 reads
Howling Dark Christopher Ruocchio	4.44	169 reads
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell	3.97	276 reads
Misery Stephen King	4.1	813 reads
Angels & Demons Dan Brown	3.6	1,632 reads
Death's End Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	4.35	695 reads
Light from Uncommon Stars Ryka Aoki Cindy Kay	4.1	253 reads
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury	3.99	606 reads
Novecento. Un monologo Alessandro Baricco	4.29	40 reads
The Way of Shadows Brent Weeks	4	361 reads
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman	4.13	701 reads
The Gunslinger Stephen King	3.61	1,211 reads
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris	3.97	472 reads
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens	4.05	848 reads
Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom	3.84	503 reads
The Plague Albert Camus Robin Buss (Translator)	3.97	378 reads
Small Gods Terry Pratchett	4.27	427 reads
Solaris Stanisław Lem Steve Cox (Translator) Joanna Kilmartin (Translator)	3.82	384 reads
The Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. Le Guin	4.04	375 reads
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Neal Stephenson	4.05	311 reads
Elantris Brandon Sanderson	4.04	1,195 reads
When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Adrian Nathan West (Translator)	4.02	125 reads
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	3.8	229 reads
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert	3.78	1,205 reads
Divergent Veronica Roth	3.72	1,805 reads
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson	3.99	591 reads
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett	4.03	764 reads
Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson	4.23	320 reads
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke	3.94	545 reads
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	3.88	392 reads
Beartown Fredrik Backman	4.36	369 reads
I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.06	802 reads
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.16	1,231 reads
Hatchet Gary Paulsen	3.63	439 reads
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse	4	179 reads
Shōgun James Clavell	4.22	283 reads
A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie	4.41	267 reads
Under the Whispering Door TJ Klune	4.09	458 reads
The Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo	3.95	196 reads
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson	3.96	328 reads
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing	4.48	186 reads
Assassin's Fate Robin Hobb	4.62	156 reads
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection J. K. Rowling	4.57	137 reads
Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner	4.25	623 reads
The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater	3.97	454 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.34	519 reads
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein	3.69	507 reads
The Trial Franz Kafka Willa Muir (Translator) Edwin Muir (Translator)	3.94	492 reads
The Love Hypothesis Ali Hazelwood	3.9	848 reads
The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis	3.77	643 reads
Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder Paulette Møller (Translator)	3.72	303 reads
The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe	4.56	18 reads
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	4.41	400 reads
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.49	188 reads
The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne	4.55	133 reads
Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist Ebba Segerberg (Translator)	3.91	135 reads
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges John Sturrock (Translator) Anthony Kerringan (Translator)	4.2	149 reads
The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez	4.26	127 reads
House of Earth and Blood Sarah J. Maas	4.26	659 reads
Vicious V.E. Schwab	4.07	664 reads
In Memoriam Alice Winn Bruno Álvarez Herrero (Translator)	4.53	73 reads
Record of a Spaceborn Few Becky Chambers	4.15	359 reads
Les Miserables Victor Hugo	4.24	31 reads
The Poppy War R.F. Kuang	4.01	931 reads
The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green	4.36	354 reads
The Ballad of Never After Stephanie Garber	4.36	224 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.27	299 reads
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith	4.12	183 reads
All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy	4.05	209 reads
The Godfather Mario Puzo	4.31	341 reads
Uzumaki Junji Ito Yuji Oniki (Translator)	4.32	337 reads
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Rutherford (Translator)	3.84	333 reads
Love, Theoretically Ali Hazelwood	4.09	391 reads
Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan	3.69	432 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson	4.22	538 reads
The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett	3.75	1,116 reads
Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin	3.84	156 reads
Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus	4.14	719 reads
Unsouled Will Wight	3.89	335 reads
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides	4.15	373 reads
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	4.3	509 reads
Strange the Dreamer Laini Taylor	4.24	281 reads
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle	4.16	504 reads
Middlemarch George Eliot	4.22	166 reads
Assassin's Quest Robin Hobb	4.15	592 reads