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

Answers9,646

Readers1,723

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin	3.84	156 reads
Les Miserables Victor Hugo	4.24	31 reads
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith	4.12	183 reads
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle	4.16	505 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.27	299 reads
All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy	4.05	209 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.34	519 reads
The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne	4.55	133 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson	4.22	538 reads
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	3.64	458 reads
Shōgun James Clavell	4.22	283 reads
The Witches Roald Dahl	3.99	417 reads
Loveless Alice Oseman	4.2	226 reads
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein	3.68	509 reads
The Poppy War R.F. Kuang	4	932 reads
Deadhouse Gates Steven Erikson	4.23	320 reads
Solaris Stanisław Lem Steve Cox (Translator) Joanna Kilmartin (Translator)	3.82	385 reads
Light Bringer Pierce Brown	4.7	223 reads
The Deal Elle Kennedy	3.99	320 reads
Dead until Dark Charlaine Harris	3.54	421 reads
Just Kids Patti Smith	4.19	213 reads
Radiance Grace Draven	3.78	126 reads
The Lions of Al-Rassan Guy Gavriel Kay	4.07	106 reads
Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez Megan McDowell (Translator)	3.86	83 reads
The Rage of Dragons Evan Winter	4.28	212 reads
A Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway	3.72	355 reads
The Wicked King Holly Black	4.11	659 reads
The Sentence Louise Erdrich	4.11	106 reads
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien	4.1	302 reads
The Serpent and the Wings of Night Carissa Broadbent	4.07	390 reads
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak	4.18	572 reads
Spinning Silver Naomi Novik	4.18	402 reads
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré	4.05	149 reads
Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett	4.06	303 reads
Les Misérables Victor Hugo Isabel Florence Hapgood (Translator)	4.17	376 reads
The Cider House Rules John Irving	4.06	139 reads
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah	4.55	693 reads
Perelandra C. S. Lewis	3.9	104 reads
I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson	4.14	185 reads
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg	4.16	163 reads
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Annelies Jorna (Translator) Ineke Lenting (Translator)	3.74	732 reads
'Salem's Lot Stephen King	3.86	782 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64	466 reads
The Obelisk Gate N.K. Jemisin	4.29	807 reads
If I Stay Gayle Forman	3.63	408 reads
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	4.34	788 reads
John Dies at the End David Wong Jason Pargin	3.63	212 reads
One Dark Window Rachel Gillig	4.1	363 reads
The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper	4.08	96 reads
Pet Sematary Stephen King	3.95	776 reads
Nimona N.D. Stevenson	4.27	426 reads
The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel	3.85	180 reads
Network Effect Martha Wells	4.4	819 reads
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.8	473 reads
The Autumn Republic Brian McClellan	4.29	159 reads
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4	523 reads
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	3.8	343 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Hwang Bo-Reum Shanna Tan (Translator)	4.02	127 reads
The Crimson Campaign Brian McClellan	4.23	212 reads
Nana, Vol. 1 Ai Yazawa	4.19	61 reads
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	4.52	40 reads
The Queen of Nothing Holly Black	4.11	590 reads
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls	4.16	423 reads
The Waste Lands Stephen King	4.16	545 reads
Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	4.14	401 reads
The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein	4.05	227 reads
The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa Philip Gabriel (Translator)	4.35	158 reads
Iron Widow Xiran Jay Zhao	4.01	372 reads
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer	3.62	316 reads
Sweet Bean Paste Durian Sukegawa Alison Watts (Translator)	4.16	102 reads
A Deadly Education Naomi Novik	3.98	587 reads
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.06	803 reads
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins	3.99	135 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.05	347 reads
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher	4.14	245 reads
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge	3.95	295 reads
Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges	4.34	68 reads
Authority Jeff VanderMeer	3.43	404 reads
The Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan	3.97	1,505 reads
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	4.02	161 reads
A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness	3.69	514 reads
Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks	4.01	237 reads
Morning Star Pierce Brown	4.43	958 reads
Radio Silence Alice Oseman	4.02	254 reads
The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri	4	166 reads
The Wisdom of Crowds Joe Abercrombie	4.54	186 reads
Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir	4.28	309 reads
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng	3.99	696 reads
The Wandering Inn pirate aba	4.22	97 reads
Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls	3.99	343 reads
From hell Alan Moore	4.23	116 reads
Poison Study Maria V. Snyder	3.84	202 reads
The Trials of Morrigan Crow Jessica Townsend	4.36	160 reads
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman	4.3	504 reads
The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro	4.17	441 reads
Bel Canto Ann Patchett	3.78	165 reads
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen	3.89	481 reads
Insurgent Veronica Roth	3.62	1,146 reads
Yours Truly Abby Jimenez	4.21	275 reads
Wizard And Glass Stephen King	4.12	475 reads