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
Mr. Monster Dan Wells	4.09	45 reads
The Maze Runner James Dashner	3.67	1,104 reads
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie	3.69	103 reads
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne	3.37	87 reads
Wrath John Gwynne	4.28	124 reads
One Day David Nicholls	3.75	205 reads
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky	4.08	233 reads
Revival Stephen King	3.7	239 reads
The Tea Dragon Society Kay O'Neill	4.26	218 reads
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry	4.39	82 reads
The Help Kathryn Stockett	4.19	744 reads
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams	3.89	414 reads
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli	3.87	114 reads
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Iain Reid	3.7	405 reads
Somewhere Beyond the Sea TJ Klune	4.16	105 reads
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made Jason Schreier	4.07	209 reads
The Dutch House Ann Patchett	4	282 reads
Du Caroline Kepnes	3.73	109 reads
Abhorsen Garth Nix	4.3	220 reads
Look to Windward Iain M. Banks	4.1	134 reads
The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins	4.05	318 reads
The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones	3.78	290 reads
The Mists Of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley	3.91	224 reads
Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman	3.94	533 reads
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition Fernando Pessoa Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)	4.31	79 reads
The Dragon Republic R.F. Kuang	4.17	435 reads
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers Jesse Q. Sutanto	4.04	196 reads
Part of Your World Abby Jimenez	4.25	283 reads
Fool's Assassin Robin Hobb	4.41	209 reads
Batman: The Long Halloween Jeph Loeb	4.17	188 reads
14 Peter Clines	3.85	156 reads
The Little House Treasury Laura Ingalls Wilder	4.3	95 reads
The Fever Code James Dashner	3.94	93 reads
The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton	3.69	445 reads
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Miguel Ruiz ภัทริณี เจริญจินดา (Translator)	3.59	256 reads
Butcher & Blackbird Brynne Weaver	4.02	312 reads
The Vanished Birds Simon Jimenez	3.88	51 reads
The Screwtape Letters	4.11	359 reads
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain	3.82	117 reads
Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson	4.15	206 reads
The Ever King L.J. Andrews	4.1	42 reads
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Christopher Moore	4.06	225 reads
The Sunlit Man Brandon Sanderson	4.26	465 reads
Lightning Dean Koontz	3.94	66 reads
Ruin John Gwynne	4.34	137 reads
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells	3.72	503 reads
The Book of Azrael Amber V. Nicole	3.79	35 reads
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney	3.58	324 reads
Kingdoms of Death Christopher Ruocchio	4.47	87 reads
At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft	3.8	205 reads
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry	3.89	142 reads
The Shadow of the Lion Eric Flint Dave Freer Mercedes Lackey	4	2 reads
The language of flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh	3.75	5 reads
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee	4.24	158 reads
Open Andre Agassi J.R. Moehringer	4.39	94 reads
Godsgrave Jay Kristoff	4.41	154 reads
Dead Beat Jim Butcher	4.27	438 reads
The Vegetarian Han Kang Deborah Smith (Translator)	3.53	440 reads
Sacred and Terrible Air Robert Kurvitz	3.46	13 reads
The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris	4.13	405 reads
Night Train To Lisbon Pascal Mercier	3.57	12 reads
Fingersmith Sarah Waters	4.01	160 reads
The Children of Men P.D. James	3.34	108 reads
The Monster at the End of This Book Jon Stone	4.43	108 reads
Skin Game Jim Butcher	4.46	332 reads
The Guncle Steven Rowley	3.91	127 reads
Coraline Neil Gaiman	4.08	999 reads
A Soul to Keep Opal Reyne	3.77	69 reads
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi S. A. Chakraborty	4.28	236 reads
Fool's Fate Robin Hobb	4.5	248 reads
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel), Vol. 1 Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù	4.38	79 reads
The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness	3.91	279 reads
Jaws Peter Benchley	3.59	148 reads
Without Remorse Tom Clancy	3.81	98 reads
Counting by 7s Holly Goldberg Sloan	4.07	55 reads
An Ember in the Ashes Sabaa Tahir	4.14	383 reads
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell	3.68	194 reads
Emily of New Moon L.M. Montgomery	4.17	48 reads
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience Brené Brown	4.38	86 reads
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett	4.22	246 reads
Three Men in a Boat Jerome Klapka Jerome	3.88	163 reads
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.55	542 reads
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann	3.89	52 reads
Confessions Kanae Minato Andry Setiawan (Translator) Clara Canceriana (Translator)	3.9	165 reads
Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney	3.83	334 reads
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler	3.76	252 reads
Jade War Fonda Lee	4.36	306 reads
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Sangu Mandanna	4.12	489 reads
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu	3.75	321 reads
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare	3.86	553 reads
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 Hajime Isayama Sheldon Drzka (Translator)	4.13	199 reads
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis	3.68	460 reads
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Mackenzi Lee	3.9	305 reads
Storm Front Jim Butcher	3.7	1,071 reads
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	3.81	188 reads
The Blacktongue Thief Christopher Buehlman	4.07	231 reads
Peter Pan J.M. Barrie	3.88	300 reads
Monstrilio Gerardo Sámano Córdova	4.04	82 reads
The Ninth Rain Jen Williams	4.13	115 reads
The Thief Megan Whalen Turner	3.69	186 reads