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.

Books3,977

Answers9,743

Readers1,739

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Vengeful Gods Elliott Rose	4.13	8 reads
William Shakespeare, the complete works William Shakespeare	4.67	4 reads
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights John Steinbeck Thomas Malory	3.86	14 reads
Palace Beautiful Sarah DeFord Williams	5	1 read
Skinwalker Faith Hunter	3.63	61 reads
Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor	3.61	150 reads
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe	4.2	352 reads
The Narrow Road Between Desires Patrick Rothfuss	4	96 reads
緋色の囁き Hiiro no Sasayaki Yukito Ayatsuji 綾辻行人	5	1 read
Celebrity in Death J. D. Robb	4	27 reads
Les derniers des branleurs Vincent Mondiot	5	2 reads
Lethal White Robert Galbraith	4.15	216 reads
Artistic License Artistic License Elle Pierson	4	5 reads
Germinal Émile Zola Stanley Hochman (Translator) Eleanor Hochman (Translator)	4.04	46 reads
Gone Michael Grant	3.59	174 reads
Stormy, Misty's Foal Marguerite Henry	3.6	14 reads
In the Distance Hernan Diaz	3.97	43 reads
Sea of Ruin Pam Godwin	3.32	19 reads
The Courtesan and the Samurai Lesley Downer	3	2 reads
The Magic Faraway Tree Enid Blyton	4.16	33 reads
The 158-Pound Marriage John Irving	3.18	19 reads
Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer	3.94	238 reads
Both Feet in the Grave Jeaniene Frost	4.29	12 reads
The Naked God Peter F. Hamilton	3.83	63 reads
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World Benjamin Alire Sáenz	3.97	120 reads
New Moon Stephenie Meyer	2.97	1,284 reads
Claudine Riyoko Ikeda	3.6	6 reads
Nie ma Nie ma Mariusz Szczygieł	3.75	4 reads
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight Jack Prelutsky	5	1 read
Lanark Alasdair Gray	4.08	17 reads
La petite fille de Monsieur Linh Philippe Claudel	4.33	9 reads
False Witness Karin Slaughter	3.98	84 reads
Rejection: Fiction Tony Tulathimutte	4.05	40 reads
Darling Girls Sally Hepworth	4.02	74 reads
Foster Claire Keegan	4.38	186 reads
De brief voor de koning Tonke Dragt	4.31	19 reads
Phänomenologie des Geistes georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel	4.07	23 reads
My Struggle: Book One Karl Ove Knausgård Don Bartlett (translator)	4.02	58 reads
A Madness of Angels Kate Griffin	3.63	28 reads
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women Sarah Bessey	4.45	13 reads
Lichtspiel Daniel Kehlmann	4.3	10 reads
Billy Summers Stephen King Adrienn Neset (Translator)	4.12	315 reads
The War That Saved My Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley	4.54	76 reads
Gilead Marilynne Robinson	3.96	133 reads
The Once and Future Witches Alix E. Harrow	4.11	236 reads
Listen for the Lie Amy Tintera	4.1	154 reads
Jarka Ruus Terry Brooks	3.64	32 reads
Mansarovar Mansarovar: Part-1 Munshi Premchand	0	1 read
Daredevil: Born Again Frank Miller David Mazzucchelli	4.03	50 reads
Reamde Neal Stephenson	3.92	288 reads
The Unbeatable Legend in Business World The Unbeatable Legend in Business World: All About Microsoft and How it Became The Most successful enterprise on The Earth! Rahul Doshi	0	0 reads
Vinland Saga, Tome 1 Makoto Yukimura	4.14	40 reads
House of Flame and Shadow Sarah J. Maas Valérie Janssen (Translator)	3.96	318 reads
A Witch's Guide to Burning Aminder Dhaliwal	4.75	3 reads
Collins Classics - the Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle	0	0 reads
Faith of the Fallen Terry Goodkind	3.83	136 reads
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver	3.74	65 reads
The Man Who Sold the Moon Robert A. Heinlein	3.75	12 reads
Bet Me Jennifer Crusie	3.84	55 reads
Bitten Kelley Armstrong	3.47	107 reads
Los detectives salvajes Roberto Bolaño	3.7	17 reads
Shadow's Wrath Lizzy Prince	3.82	27 reads
Anthem Ayn Rand	3.46	219 reads
The Endless Steppe Esther Hautzig	4	11 reads
Serpents of the Abyss Serpents of the Abyss S.J. Sanders	4	1 read
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe	4.2	605 reads
Stolen Enchantress Amber Argyle	4.33	4 reads
The Turn Of The Screw Henry James	3.27	278 reads
The Chalk Man C.J. Tudor	3.62	126 reads
The Watch That Ends the Night Hugh MacLennan	5	1 read
The Wild Edge of Sorrow Francis Weller	3.75	5 reads
Bartleby Herman Melville	3.86	107 reads
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline Nancy Springer	4.04	16 reads
Famine Laura Thalassa	4.13	44 reads
Little Star John Ajvide Lindqvist Marlaine Delargy (Translator)	3.17	15 reads
Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold	4.13	94 reads
Office 2017 For Beginners- The PERFECT Guide on Microsoft Office Office 2017 For Beginners- The PERFECT Guide on Microsoft Office: Including Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word Microsoft Access and more! Steven Weikler	0	1 read
When the Angels Left the Old Country Sacha Lamb	4.41	19 reads
Az ajtó Magda Szabó	5	1 read
Insomnia Stephen King	3.56	227 reads
UnWritten Chelsea M. Cameron	5	1 read
Extinction Reversed Extinction Reversed J.S. Morin	5	3 reads
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Jon Krakauer	3.74	23 reads
The Turn of the Key Ruth Ware	3.78	247 reads
Permanent Record Edward Snowden	4.44	220 reads
First Lord's Fury Jim Butcher	4.14	160 reads
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen K.J. Charles	4.15	24 reads
Salomé Oscar Wilde	3.66	30 reads
Magic Bites Ilona Andrews	3.68	212 reads
Gone to See the River Man Kristopher Triana	3.75	75 reads
Up the Down Staircase Bel Kaufman	4.45	12 reads
The Tenant Roland Topor	4.17	11 reads
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy Jeff VanderMeer	3.81	40 reads
The Complete Fiction H. P. Lovecraft	4.17	25 reads
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" Harriet Ann Jacobs	5	1 read
Q Luther Blissett	4.25	16 reads
The Rules of Attraction Bret Easton Ellis	3.31	62 reads
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery Brom	4.37	136 reads
Exile R. A. Salvatore	3.99	164 reads
Don Quijote de la Mancha (1). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	3.83	18 reads