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
Vicious V.E. Schwab	4.07	722 reads
A Closed and Common Orbit Becky Chambers	4.33	551 reads
Twilight Stephenie Meyer	2.9	2,251 reads
Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	4.4	429 reads
Solaris Stanisław Lem Steve Cox (Translator) Joanna Kilmartin (Translator)	3.83	426 reads
Zei mărunți Terry Pratchett	4.28	456 reads
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.45	198 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.37	561 reads
The Player of Games Iain M. Banks	4.17	396 reads
Love, Theoretically Ali Hazelwood	4.09	414 reads
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein	3.68	556 reads
In Memoriam Alice Winn Bruno Álvarez Herrero (Translator)	4.56	79 reads
Shōgun James Clavell	4.23	302 reads
Night Watch Terry Pratchett	4.43	329 reads
The Poppy War R.F. Kuang	3.98	1,008 reads
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle	4.18	579 reads
Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist Ebba Segerberg (Translator)	3.92	144 reads
The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe	4.4	21 reads
The Plague Albert Camus Stuart Gilbert (Translator)	3.96	427 reads
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith	4.1	198 reads
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.28	318 reads
All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy	4.05	225 reads
The Witches Roald Dahl	4	442 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson	4.24	588 reads
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel), Vol. 1 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù Suika (Translator)	4.51	96 reads
The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne	4.53	141 reads
Loveless Alice Oseman	4.2	245 reads
House of Earth and Blood Sarah J. Maas	4.25	696 reads
The Spear Cuts Through Water Simon Jimenez	4.28	140 reads
I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.06	881 reads
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak	4.19	607 reads
Radio Silence Alice Oseman	4.04	256 reads
2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke	4.08	726 reads
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	3.64	509 reads
Hatchet Gary Paulsen	3.64	470 reads
David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.97	257 reads
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carré	4.05	182 reads
I'll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson	4.14	195 reads
Perelandra C. S. Lewis	3.89	115 reads
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje	3.61	107 reads
Authority Jeff VanderMeer	3.42	434 reads
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah	4.56	731 reads
Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett	4.09	324 reads
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.04	857 reads
If I Stay Gayle Forman	3.61	426 reads
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg	4.18	174 reads
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Annelies Jorna (Translator) Ineke Lenting (Translator)	3.74	773 reads
The Cider House Rules John Irving	4.09	144 reads
The Forever War Joe Haldeman	3.96	605 reads
John Dies at the End David Wong Jason Pargin	3.66	276 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.63	495 reads
'Salem's Lot Stephen King	3.87	838 reads
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky	4.08	247 reads
The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin	4.29	859 reads
One Dark Window Rachel Gillig	4.1	389 reads
Odd Thomas Dean Koontz	4.03	144 reads
The Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan	3.98	1,633 reads
Magician: Apprentice Raymond E. Feist	4.01	434 reads
Nimona ND Stevenson	4.27	455 reads
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.79	506 reads
Carrie Stephen King	3.76	964 reads
Network Effect Martha Wells	4.41	919 reads
White Fang Jack London	3.83	263 reads
Bleak House Charles Dickens	4.02	97 reads
The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper	4.01	132 reads
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop Hwang Bo-Reum Shanna Tan (Translator)	4.04	135 reads
The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides	3.79	359 reads
The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein	4.06	235 reads
The Queen of Nothing Holly Black	4.12	633 reads
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls	4.18	447 reads
Abhorsen Garth Nix	4.29	246 reads
Nana, Vol. 1 Ai Yazawa	4.21	66 reads
Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer	3.59	343 reads
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	4.53	45 reads
Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	4.13	426 reads
Sweet Bean Paste Durian Sukegawa Alison Watts (Translator)	4.13	110 reads
Dune Messiah Frank Herbert	3.78	1,330 reads
The Travelling Cat Chronicles Hiro Arikawa Philip Gabriel (Translator)	4.34	164 reads
Malibu Rising Taylor Jenkins Reid	4	548 reads
Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges	4.3	80 reads
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins	4.02	141 reads
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	4.02	180 reads
Butcher & Blackbird Brynne Weaver	4	341 reads
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher	4.15	265 reads
In the Dream House	4.47	320 reads
The Wisdom of Crowds Joe Abercrombie	4.53	204 reads
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge	3.95	311 reads
A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick	3.82	266 reads
The Trials of Morrigan Crow Jessica Townsend	4.33	167 reads
The Jasmine Throne Tasha Suri	3.97	172 reads
Poison Study Maria V. Snyder	3.86	215 reads
Heartless Marissa Meyer	3.87	216 reads
From hell Alan Moore	4.24	128 reads
A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness	3.69	541 reads
The Waste Lands Stephen King	4.17	583 reads
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng	4	731 reads
The Wandering Inn pirate aba	4.19	105 reads
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen	3.89	521 reads
The Serpent and the Wings of Night Carissa Broadbent	4.07	427 reads
Insurgent Veronica Roth	3.61	1,235 reads