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.

Books3,959

Answers9,650

Readers1,724

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.38	208 reads
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford	3.98	80 reads
Hijab Butch Blues Lamya H	4.48	33 reads
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See	3.85	109 reads
The Rise of Endymion Dan Simmons	4.04	227 reads
Still Life Sarah Winman	4.17	42 reads
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle	4.26	435 reads
The Curse of Chalion Lois McMaster Bujold	4.19	169 reads
Water Moon Samantha Sotto Yambao	4.13	19 reads
The Dark Tower Stephen King	4.2	383 reads
Winter's Tale Mark Helprin	3.81	31 reads
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey	4.06	551 reads
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	4.54	29 reads
Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher	4.11	479 reads
The Son of Neptune Rick Riordan	4.2	729 reads
All the Lovers in the Night Mieko Kawakami Sam Bett (Translator) David Boyd (Translator)	3.51	90 reads
Lovely War Julie Berry	4.12	69 reads
Humankind: A Hopeful History Rutger Bregman	4.27	69 reads
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf	3.74	293 reads
The Tea Dragon Society Kay O'Neill	4.26	218 reads
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky	4.08	233 reads
The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.8	1,079 reads
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien	4.8	8 reads
My Sister's Keeper Jodi Picoult	3.72	366 reads
A Praying Life Paul E. Miller	4.83	10 reads
Bunny Mona Awad	3.54	501 reads
Intermezzo Sally Rooney	4	149 reads
The Obsession Nora Roberts	3.97	36 reads
Dawn Octavia E. Butler	4.03	223 reads
The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen Steven Erikson	4.6	11 reads
Un Mundo Feliz Aldous Huxley	3.82	30 reads
Looking for Alaska John Green	3.76	1,013 reads
Kings of the Wyld Nicholas Eames	4.15	419 reads
Unwind Neal Shusterman	4	231 reads
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson	3.74	591 reads
The One John Marrs	4.01	256 reads
The False Prince Jennifer A. Nielsen	4.03	120 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf Kimberly Lemming	3.94	56 reads
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway	3.87	265 reads
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Anthony Bonner (Translator) Jakob Gunnarsson (translator)	3.57	433 reads
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner	4.27	39 reads
The Fires of Heaven Robert Jordan	4.08	620 reads
Three Body Problem Collection Cixin Liu	3.68	26 reads
Lord of Chaos Robert Jordan	4.03	591 reads
The Light Pirate Lily Brooks-Dalton	3.99	41 reads
Donde los árboles cantan Laura Gallego García	3.78	35 reads
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth Andrew Joseph White	4.53	41 reads
Dry Neal Shusterman Jarrod Shusterman	3.99	78 reads
New and Selected Poems, Volume One Mary Oliver	4.73	24 reads
Twilight Stephenie Meyer	2.89	2,117 reads
The Shadow Rising Robert Jordan	4.21	714 reads
Demian Hermann Hesse	3.78	39 reads
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick	4.48	120 reads
Men at Arms Terry Pratchett	4.36	366 reads
The Painted Man Peter V. Brett	4.15	292 reads
The Talisman Stephen King Peter Straub	3.74	216 reads
Too Like the Lightning Ada Palmer	3.81	132 reads
White Night Jim Butcher	4.22	391 reads
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix	3.8	478 reads
The Last Graduate Naomi Novik	4.22	399 reads
The Measure Nikki Erlick	3.76	205 reads
Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko	4.05	111 reads
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm Sam Hughes	4.26	113 reads
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss	3.92	440 reads
Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll	3.92	194 reads
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders	3.99	64 reads
Sharpe's Rifles Bernard Cornwell	4.14	27 reads
The Time Keeper Mitch Albom	3.68	69 reads
Happy Place Emily Henry	3.84	570 reads
Three Kingdoms Volume 3 Luo Guanzhong Moss Roberts (Translator)	0	0 reads
The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke	4.01	138 reads
Shoe Dog Phil Knight	4.37	319 reads
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel), Vol. 2 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 墨香铜臭 Suika (Translator)	4.5	50 reads
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman	4.11	609 reads
Mrs Death Misses Death Salena Godden	3.21	19 reads
Travels with Charley John Steinbeck	4.07	93 reads
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.73	504 reads
Spirits Abroad Zen Cho	4.36	14 reads
Roadside Picnic Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky Olena Bormashenko (Translator)	3.98	302 reads
Ilium Dan Simmons	3.82	124 reads
A Short Stay in Hell Steven L. Peck	4.13	127 reads
Heartless Marissa Meyer	3.88	200 reads
As Good As Dead Holly Jackson	4.02	345 reads
Permutation City Greg Egan	4.07	84 reads
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4	144 reads
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Jordan B. Peterson	3.46	318 reads
The Great Alone Kristin Hannah	4.16	303 reads
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker	4.22	272 reads
Leviathan Falls James S. A. Corey	4.46	483 reads
Shadow and Bone Leigh Bardugo	3.7	1,169 reads
Bookshops & Bonedust Travis Baldree	4.24	462 reads
Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Serge Shishkoff (Translator) Robert Teditorr Durgy	4.08	297 reads
The Stone Sky N.K. Jemisin	4.37	699 reads
David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.99	245 reads
Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell David Remnick	5	6 reads
Ship of Fools Richard Paul Russo	3.4	36 reads
Of War and Ruin Ryan Cahill	4.54	34 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon Kimberly Lemming	3.82	145 reads
Berserk Volume 1 Kentaro Miura	4.26	170 reads
Underlord Will Wight	4.43	217 reads