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.
1969 • 1,337 Readers • 4.1
2023 • 356 Readers • 3.8
Why this book?
Encapsulates to a degree that is almost uncanny what it was like to be a teenage girl in the 90s.
2018 • 484 Readers • 4.2
Why this book?
This whole series is cozy bangers, but this one is (imo) the coziest.
1979 • 701 Readers • 4.4
Why this book?
"Read HHGG at age 8" explains my entire sense of humor.
2010 • 545 Readers • 4.1
Why this book?
Honestly, if I'd written this, I'd probably be paralyzed by my inability to live up to my own standards.
1995 • 491 Readers • 4
Why this book?
I'll fight anyone who doesn't think Hackworth's sandwich sauce tangent isn't exquisite comedy
11 • 4,746 Readers • 4.3
Why this book?
Aside from being a landmark of SF, Dune is a masterclass in characterization that doesn't rely on navel-gazing internal monologues.
1908 • 783 Readers • 4.3
Why this book?
An annual reread as a youth (in omnibus with Avonlea, Island, and House of Dreams)
2018 • 805 Readers • 4.2
Why this book?
Exquisite, unhurried, emotionally radiant.