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
Men at Arms Terry Pratchett	4.36	366 reads
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders	3.99	64 reads
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss	3.92	440 reads
The Painted Man Peter V. Brett	4.15	292 reads
Demian Hermann Hesse	3.78	39 reads
Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll	3.92	194 reads
Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko	4.05	111 reads
Sharpe's Rifles Bernard Cornwell	4.14	27 reads
Leviathan Falls James S. A. Corey	4.46	483 reads
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm Sam Hughes	4.26	113 reads
New and Selected Poems, Volume One Mary Oliver	4.73	24 reads
Three Body Problem Collection Cixin Liu	3.68	26 reads
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.73	504 reads
Happy Place Emily Henry	3.84	570 reads
The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke	4.01	138 reads
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann	4.12	328 reads
Three Kingdoms Volume 3 Luo Guanzhong Moss Roberts (Translator)	0	0 reads
Shoe Dog Phil Knight	4.37	319 reads
Roadside Picnic Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky Olena Bormashenko (Translator)	3.98	302 reads
As Good As Dead Holly Jackson	4.02	345 reads
Spirits Abroad Zen Cho	4.36	14 reads
Translation State Ann Leckie	4.01	133 reads
A Short Stay in Hell Steven L. Peck	4.13	127 reads
Ilium Dan Simmons	3.82	124 reads
Reborn as a Demonic Tree Xkarnation	3.88	14 reads
The Great Alone Kristin Hannah	4.16	303 reads
Shadow and Bone Leigh Bardugo	3.7	1,169 reads
Permutation City Greg Egan	4.07	84 reads
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Jordan B. Peterson	3.46	318 reads
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker	4.22	272 reads
In A Sunburned Country Bill Bryson	4	144 reads
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway	3.87	265 reads
Bookshops & Bonedust Travis Baldree	4.24	462 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
Berserk Volume 1 Kentaro Miura	4.26	170 reads
The Stone Sky N.K. Jemisin	4.37	699 reads
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon Kimberly Lemming	3.82	145 reads
Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Serge Shishkoff (Translator) Robert Teditorr Durgy	4.08	297 reads
Of War and Ruin Ryan Cahill	4.54	34 reads
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende	4.13	262 reads
Ship of Fools Richard Paul Russo	3.4	36 reads
David Copperfield Charles Dickens	3.99	245 reads
The Measure Nikki Erlick	3.76	205 reads
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall	4.28	226 reads
Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell David Remnick	5	6 reads
Underlord Will Wight	4.43	217 reads
All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews	4.32	41 reads
The Selection Kiera Cass	3.65	609 reads
Starsight Brandon Sanderson	4.25	525 reads
Life Ceremony Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.78	76 reads
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Miguel Ruiz ภัทริณี เจริญจินดา (Translator)	3.59	256 reads
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within Becky Chambers	4.43	270 reads
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Lulu Miller	4.04	135 reads
Twilight Stephenie Meyer	2.89	2,117 reads
Daemon Daniel Suarez	3.97	249 reads
Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis	3.81	186 reads
The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy Aylmer Maude (Translator) رضی هیرمند (Translator) Ευγενία Ζήκου (Translator)	4.11	263 reads
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth Andrew Joseph White	4.53	41 reads
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	4.17	260 reads
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow	3.9	58 reads
Pandora's Star Peter F. Hamilton	4.07	256 reads
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan	3.78	303 reads
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri	4.18	35 reads
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O'Neill	4.32	16 reads
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein	4.22	673 reads
Pop. 1280 Jim Thompson	4.07	16 reads
Muse of Nightmares Laini Taylor	4.35	161 reads
The Twins' Secret Elisabetta Gnone A. McEwen (Translator)	3.88	14 reads
Gemina Amie Kaufman Jay Kristoff	4.39	181 reads
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens	3.95	33 reads
The Bonehunters Steven Erikson	4.5	179 reads
Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 Kamome Shirahama 白浜鴎 Stephen Kohler (Translator)	4.43	115 reads
Going Postal Terry Pratchett	4.36	399 reads
Scythe Neal Shusterman	4.17	669 reads
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Suleika Jaouad	4.38	47 reads
The First to Die at the End Adam Silvera	4.08	89 reads
The Mistake Elle Kennedy	3.81	176 reads
Looking for Alaska John Green	3.76	1,013 reads
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne	3.79	73 reads
The Spellshop Sarah Beth Durst	4.03	116 reads
White Fang Jack London	3.81	241 reads
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman	4.11	609 reads
Asunder Kerstin Hall	4.56	10 reads
The Obsession Nora Roberts	3.97	36 reads
Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica Sarah Moses (Translator)	3.72	485 reads
Yellowface R.F. Kuang	3.91	1,006 reads
Batman: Year One Frank Miller	4.07	54 reads
Bleak House Charles Dickens	4.02	92 reads
Icebreaker Hannah Grace	3.59	397 reads
The Queen of Attolia Megan Whalen Turner	4.06	112 reads
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie	3.69	103 reads
House of Suns Alastair Reynolds	4.2	178 reads
Towers of Midnight Robert Jordan Brandon Sanderson	4.48	443 reads
Wrath John Gwynne	4.28	124 reads
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams	3.89	414 reads
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	4.54	29 reads
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry	4.39	82 reads
One Day David Nicholls	3.75	205 reads
The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4	282 reads
The Help Kathryn Stockett	4.19	744 reads