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.

The Golem of Brooklyn

The Golem of Brooklyn
ByAdam Mansbach

2023 • 31 Readers 3.9

All the Colors of the Dark

2024 • 296 Readers • 608 pages 4.1

Water Moon

Water Moon
BySamantha Sotto Yambao

2025 • 301 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

Strange Sally Diamond

2023 • 238 Readers • 362 pages 4.2

The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway
ByAmor Towles

2021 • 468 Readers • 593 pages 4.1

The Haar

The Haar
ByDavid Sodergren

2022 • 202 Readers • 220 pages 3.9

Broken: in the Best Possible Way

2020 • 224 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War
ByAmal El-Mohtar,Max Gladstone

2019 • 3,381 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Beartown

#1 of 3 in Beartown

Beartown
ByFredrik Backman

2014 • 1,081 Readers • 689 pages 4.4

Priestdaddy

Priestdaddy
ByPatricia Lockwood

176 Readers 4

The Stranger in the Woods

2017 • 164 Readers • 224 pages 3.9

Nutshell

Nutshell
ByIan McEwan

2001 • 130 Readers • 224 pages 3.7

Hag-Seed

Hogarth Shakespeare

Hag-Seed
ByMargaret Atwood

2016 • 172 Readers • 322 pages 3.8

Six Wakes

Six Wakes
ByMur Lafferty

2017 • 400 Readers • 400 pages 3.8

Did You Ever Have a Family

2015 • 68 Readers • 304 pages 3.6

Seveneves

Seveneves
ByNeal Stephenson

2015 • 1,331 Readers • 867 pages 3.9

The Library at Mount Char

2015 • 1,038 Readers • 400 pages 4

The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks
ByDavid Mitchell

2014 • 503 Readers • 595 pages 3.9

The Necromancer's House

The Necromancer's House
ByChristopher Buehlman

2013 • 62 Readers • 410 pages 4

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

2013 • 84 Readers • 324 pages 3.9

A Short Stay in Hell

A Short Stay in Hell
BySteven L. Peck

2011 • 431 Readers • 88 pages 4.1

Redshirts

Redshirts
ByJohn Scalzi

2012 • 1,028 Readers • 318 pages 3.8

The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending
ByJulian Barnes

2011 • 398 Readers • 164 pages 3.9

The Family Fang

The Family Fang
ByKevin Wilson

2011 • 76 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You
ByJonathan Tropper

2003 • 167 Readers • 503 pages 3.7

Harbor

Harbor
ByJohn Ajvide Lindqvist

2008 • 45 Readers 3.5

Columbine

Columbine
ByDave Cullen

2009 • 334 Readers • 396 pages 4.3

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2002 • 2,003 Readers • 290 pages 3.8

Water for Elephants

2006 • 948 Readers • 350 pages 3.9

The Art of Racing in the Rain

2008 • 447 Readers • 321 pages 4.1

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 5,452 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

Duma Key

Duma Key
ByStephen King

2008 • 388 Readers • 631 pages 3.9

A Short History of Nearly Everything

2003 • 1,562 Readers • 705 pages 4.2

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife
ByAudrey Niffenegger

2003 • 1,546 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

A Prayer For Owen Meany

1989 • 530 Readers • 720 pages 4.1

Middlesex

Middlesex
ByJeffrey Eugenides

2002 • 909 Readers • 548 pages 4.1

Let the Right One In

#1 of 1 in Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In
ByJohn Ajvide Lindqvist,Ebba Segerberg(Translator)

2004 • 468 Readers • 513 pages 4

House of Sand and Fog

House of Sand and Fog
ByAndre Dubus III

1999 • 56 Readers • 365 pages 3.5

The Historian

The Historian
ByElizabeth Kostova

2005 • 633 Readers 3.6

Bel Canto

Bel Canto
ByAnn Patchett

2001 • 380 Readers • 318 pages 3.8

Holidays on Ice

Holidays on Ice
ByDavid Sedaris

1997 • 194 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

The Elementals

The Elementals
ByMichael McDowell

1981 • 257 Readers • 292 pages 3.9

Them

Them
ByJon Ronson

2001 • 93 Readers • 337 pages 3.8

The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book
ByNeil Gaiman

2008 • 1,595 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

The World According to Garp

1978 • 381 Readers • 610 pages 4

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha
ByArthur Golden

1997 • 1,365 Readers • 435 pages 3.9

Wool

#1 of 2 in Silo

Wool
ByHugh Howey

2011 • 1,990 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar
BySylvia Plath

1963 • 2,324 Readers • 234 pages 4

A Memory Called Empire

#1 of 2 in Teixcalaan

A Memory Called Empire
ByArkady Martine

2019 • 1,531 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

A Man Called Ove

A Man Called Ove
ByFredrik Backman,Henning Koch(Translator)

2012 • 1,795 Readers • 352 pages 4.4

Children of Time

#1 of 3 in Children of Time

Children of Time
ByAdrian Tchaikovsky

2015 • 2,511 Readers • 600 pages 4.3

Station Eleven

Station Eleven
ByEmily St. John Mandel

2014 • 2,624 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

The Shining
ByStephen King

1977 • 2,597 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 9 in The Expanse

Leviathan Wakes
ByJames S. A. Corey

2009 • 3,088 Readers • 621 pages 4.3

The Night Circus

The Night Circus
ByErin Morgenstern

18 • 2,635 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale
ByMargaret Atwood

1985 • 4,197 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

American Gods
ByNeil Gaiman

2001 • 3,669 Readers • 480 pages 4

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 5,223 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

The Name of the Wind
ByPatrick Rothfuss

2007 • 3,967 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

Dune
ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 6,944 Readers • 704 pages 4.3