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
The Blade Itself Joe Abercrombie	4.11	1,140 reads
The Humans Matt Haig	3.94	300 reads
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.87	287 reads
Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu	3.81	414 reads
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection J. K. Rowling	4.55	151 reads
Golden Son Pierce Brown	4.44	1,235 reads
Redwall Brian Jacques	3.98	322 reads
Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner	4.25	656 reads
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson	3.92	579 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.21	1,381 reads
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins	3.72	1,010 reads
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt	3.77	236 reads
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel	3.92	268 reads
Last Argument of Kings Joe Abercrombie	4.3	765 reads
Old Man's War John Scalzi	4.14	936 reads
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy	3.66	208 reads
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Patrick Süskind John E. Woods (Translator)	3.91	606 reads
The Assassin's Blade Sarah J. Maas	4.03	649 reads
The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe	3.67	230 reads
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Christopher Johnson McCandless	3.83	670 reads
Crown of Midnight Sarah J. Maas	4.22	1,035 reads
The Godfather Mario Puzo	4.29	365 reads
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.2	928 reads
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson	4.06	1,631 reads
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett	4.11	508 reads
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi	4.46	359 reads
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury	4	653 reads
Light from Uncommon Stars Ryka Aoki	4.08	267 reads
The Color Purple Alice Walker	4.16	539 reads
Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	4.26	614 reads
Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin	3.9	210 reads
Misery Stephen King	4.1	861 reads
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova	3.66	294 reads
Light Bringer Pierce Brown	4.7	251 reads
Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett	4.23	720 reads
Middlemarch George Eliot	4.19	178 reads
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Justin O'Brien (Translator)	4.12	291 reads
My Heart Is a Chainsaw Stephen Graham Jones	3.68	188 reads
Royal Assassin Robin Hobb	4.27	727 reads
Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr	4.25	329 reads
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman	4.12	752 reads
The Battle of the Labyrinth Rick Riordan	4.2	1,394 reads
Perdido Street Station China Miéville	3.97	313 reads
Anxious People Fredrik Backman Neil Smith (Translator)	4.25	692 reads
Emma Jane Austen	3.99	655 reads
Solaris Stanisław Lem Steve Cox (Translator) Joanna Kilmartin (Translator)	3.83	425 reads
Shōgun James Clavell	4.23	302 reads
The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson	4.07	338 reads
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse Basil Creighton (Translator)	3.96	267 reads
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	3.81	248 reads
When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Adrian Nathan West (Translator)	4.05	164 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06	367 reads
Zei mărunți Terry Pratchett	4.28	456 reads
I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.06	880 reads
Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson	4.24	344 reads
Beartown Fredrik Backman	4.38	433 reads
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak	4.19	607 reads
Morning Star Pierce Brown	4.44	1,057 reads
2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke	4.08	726 reads
Hatchet Gary Paulsen	3.64	470 reads
Radio Silence Alice Oseman	4.04	256 reads
The Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo	3.93	201 reads
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.15	1,297 reads
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing	4.5	211 reads
The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater	3.98	488 reads
Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks	4.03	256 reads
Under the Whispering Door TJ Klune	4.09	489 reads
In the Absence of Men Philippe Besson Frank Wynne (Translator)	4.3	11 reads
The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green	4.36	390 reads
Assassin's Fate Robin Hobb	4.6	165 reads
A Little Hatred Joe Abercrombie	4.42	294 reads
Twilight Stephenie Meyer	2.9	2,250 reads
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro	4.17	519 reads
White Oleander Janet Fitch	3.82	154 reads
The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis	3.76	686 reads
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein	3.68	556 reads
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	4.34	853 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.37	561 reads
The Trial Franz Kafka Willa Muir (Translator) Edwin Muir (Translator)	3.92	552 reads
Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder Paulette Møller (Translator)	3.73	318 reads
The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne	4.53	141 reads
The Love Hypothesis Ali Hazelwood	3.9	894 reads
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel	3.89	196 reads
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel), Vol. 1 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù Suika (Translator)	4.51	96 reads
The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe	4.4	21 reads
Record of a Spaceborn Few Becky Chambers	4.16	395 reads
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	4.4	429 reads
House of Earth and Blood Sarah J. Maas	4.25	696 reads
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.45	198 reads
The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez	4.28	140 reads
Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan	3.72	453 reads
Vicious V.E. Schwab	4.07	722 reads
A Closed and Common Orbit Becky Chambers	4.33	551 reads
In Memoriam Alice Winn Bruno Álvarez Herrero (Translator)	4.56	79 reads
Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist Ebba Segerberg (Translator)	3.92	144 reads
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra John Rutherford (Translator)	3.85	366 reads
The Poppy War R.F. Kuang	3.98	1,008 reads
The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett	3.77	1,228 reads
Uzumaki Junji Ito Yuji Oniki (Translator)	4.33	315 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.28	318 reads