What are your favorite books of all time?Answer

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.

Time Enough for Drums

7 Readers 4

Why this book?

My first "historical fiction with a splash of romance."

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1891 • 549 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

#1 of 7 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

1969 • 856 Readers • 309 pages 4.2

1984

1984
ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 8,886 Readers • 304 pages 4.2

The Pigman

#1 of 3 in The Pigman

The Pigman
ByPaul Zindel

1968 • 46 Readers • 196 pages 3.3

The Good Earth

#1 of 3 in House of Earth

The Good Earth
ByPearl S. Buck,Gianny Buditjahya(Translator)

1931 • 411 Readers • 418 pages 3.8

The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

#1 of 2 in Don Quijote de la Mancha

The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra,John Rutherford(Translator)

1605 • 1,259 Readers • 1,023 pages 3.9

Salomé

Salomé
ByOscar Wilde

1891 • 57 Readers • 96 pages 3.6

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies
ByWilliam Golding

1954 • 4,007 Readers • 208 pages 3.6

Beloved

#1 of 3 in Beloved Trilogy

Beloved
ByToni Morrison

1987 • 1,269 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth
ByEdith Wharton

1905 • 270 Readers • 286 pages 3.8

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 5,361 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Pillars of the Earth

#1 of 4 in Kingsbridge

1800 • 1,465 Readers • 1,008 pages 4.1

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
ByCharlotte Perkins Gilman

1995 • 329 Readers • 83 pages 3.8

Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web
ByE.B. White

1,315 Readers 3.9

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange
ByAnthony Burgess

1962 • 2,139 Readers • 72 pages 3.9

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

#4 of 7 in Logans

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
ByMildred D. Taylor

1976 • 156 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

Parable of the Sower
ByOctavia E. Butler

1993 • 1,840 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

#1 of 7 in The Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

1950 • 3,008 Readers • 208 pages 3.9

Scarlet feather

Scarlet feather
ByMaeve Binchy

24 Readers 3.9

A Discovery of Witches

#1 of 6 in All Souls

A Discovery of Witches
ByDeborah Harkness

2011 • 1,182 Readers • 579 pages 3.7

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac
ByEdmond Rostand,Brian Hooker(Translator),+1 more

1821 • 203 Readers • 196 pages 4.1

The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle
ByL.M. Montgomery

1926 • 153 Readers • 278 pages 4.3

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2007 • 671 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 6 in Time Quintet

A Wrinkle in Time
ByMadeleine L'Engle

1962 • 2,013 Readers • 256 pages 3.7

Rebecca

Rebecca
ByDaphne du Maurier

1938 • 1,599 Readers • 428 pages 4.1

Why this book?

Just an absolute gothic favorite of mine.

The Night Circus

The Night Circus
ByErin Morgenstern

18 • 2,682 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

Watership Down

#1 of 3 in Watership Down

Watership Down
ByRichard Adams

1972 • 1,297 Readers • 385 pages 4.1

The Red Tent

The Red Tent
ByAnita Diamant

1997 • 55 Readers • 266 pages 4

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
ByEmily Brontë

1847 • 2,534 Readers • 432 pages 3.6

Why this book?

Dark; inspires me to imagine what it would be like to be a wild girl loose on the moors.