Prompts

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.

The Lord of the Rings

#1-3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

20 • 1,959 Readers • 1,178 pages 4.5

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

1965 • 5,834 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

1979 • 4,536 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

1984

1949 • 7,283 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

The Way of Kings

#1 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2010 • 3,657 Readers • 1,007 pages 4.6

Mistborn: The Final Empire

#1 of 3 in The Mistborn Saga: The Original Trilogy

2006 • 4,406 Readers • 534 pages 4.5

The Hobbit

#0 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

10 • 5,206 Readers • 300 pages 4.3

Pride and Prejudice

6 Cozy Classics

1811 • 3,382 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1989 • 6,750 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 4,847 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

2011 • 3,958 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

The Hunger Games

#1 of 3 in The Hunger Games

2008 • 5,284 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

The Fellowship of the Ring

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 4,099 Readers • 398 pages 4.4

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 3,195 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

The Name of the Wind

#1 of 3 in The Kingkiller Chronicle

1 • 3,360 Readers • 669 pages 4.4

The Song of Achilles

1995 • 3,419 Readers • 384 pages 4.3

Jane Eyre

1846 • 2,390 Readers • 580 pages 4

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

2008 • 3,584 Readers • 384 pages 4

The Lightning Thief

#1 of 9 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians

2000 • 2,908 Readers • 377 pages 4

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

#3 of 8 in Harry Potter

1957 • 5,159 Readers • 547 pages 4.4

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960 • 4,493 Readers • 323 pages 4.2

The Two Towers

#2 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1954 • 2,745 Readers • 725 pages 4.5

The Return of the King

#3 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

1950 • 1,804 Readers • 432 pages 4.6

The Book Thief

2005 • 2,799 Readers • 552 pages 4.3

American Gods

#1 of 2 in American Gods

2001 • 3,167 Readers • 635 pages 4

One Hundred Years of Solitude

1967 • 2,302 Readers • 396 pages 4.1

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 2,223 Readers • 492 pages 4.3

The Count of Monte Cristo

6 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1830 • 2,209 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

A Game of Thrones

#1 of 6 in A Song of Ice and Fire

1996 • 4,060 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

And Then There Were None

1939 • 2,414 Readers • 116 pages 4.2

The Picture of Dorian Grey

1890 • 3,039 Readers • 186 pages 4.1

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

#5 of 8 in Harry Potter

2003 • 4,726 Readers • 896 pages 4.3

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

#7 of 8 in Harry Potter

2007 • 4,613 Readers • 784 pages 4.4

A Court of Mist and Fury

#2 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2016 • 2,066 Readers • 659 pages 4.4

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

#6 of 8 in Harry Potter

2005 • 4,622 Readers • 672 pages 4.4

Frankenstein

2 Barron's Graphic Classics

-800 • 3,241 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

Words of Radiance

#2 of 6 in The Stormlight Archive

2012 • 2,222 Readers • 1,328 pages 4.7

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

1 Reidverse

2017 • 3,081 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 2,122 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

Circe

2018 • 3,413 Readers • 409 pages 4.2

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

#4 of 8 in Harry Potter

2000 • 4,953 Readers • 752 pages 4.4

The Great Gatsby

1920 • 4,249 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Catcher in the Rye

200 • 3,619 Readers 3.6

Slaughterhouse 5

2 Critical Insights

1968 • 3,032 Readers • 292 pages 4.1

Piranesi

2019 • 3,023 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

Fourth Wing

#1 of 3 in The Empyrean

2023 • 3,506 Readers • 517 pages 4

The Stand

1978 • 1,949 Readers • 1,553 pages 4.1

The Little Prince

1 • 2,554 Readers • 136 pages 4.2

The Handmaid's Tale

#1 of 3 in The Handmaid's Tale

1985 • 3,608 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

Anne of Green Gables

#1 of 13 in Anne of Green Gables

1908 • 1,073 Readers • 326 pages 4.3

Fahrenheit 451

1953 • 4,617 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,862 Readers • 340 pages 4

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,515 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

Gideon the Ninth

#1 of 3 in The Locked Tomb

2019 • 2,037 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Secret History

1992 • 2,478 Readers • 578 pages 4.1

Wuthering Heights

Continuum Contemporaries

1847 • 2,132 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

The Night Circus

2011 • 2,375 Readers • 387 pages 3.9

East of Eden

1939 • 1,643 Readers • 601 pages 4.5

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

2022 • 3,421 Readers • 397 pages 4.1

The Golden Compass

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

1995 • 2,424 Readers • 399 pages 4

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 2,913 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

#2 of 8 in Harry Potter

1998 • 5,202 Readers • 332 pages 4.2

Dracula

24 • 2,669 Readers • 440 pages 3.9

11/22/63

2011 • 1,848 Readers • 849 pages 4.3

The Fifth Season

#1 of 3 in The Broken Earth

2015 • 2,752 Readers • 421 pages 4.3

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 10 in The Expanse

2011 • 2,518 Readers • 621 pages 4.2

Red Rising

#1 of 6 in Red Rising Saga

2014 • 3,484 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

Persuasion

19 • 1,037 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

The Shining

#1 of 2 in The Shining

1977 • 2,228 Readers • 539 pages 4.1

Watership Down

#1 of 2 in Watership Down

1972 • 1,109 Readers • 385 pages 4.1

The Road

1974 • 2,457 Readers • 287 pages 4

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 2,301 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

The Shadow of the Wind

#1 of 2 in The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

2001 • 1,490 Readers • 487 pages 4.1

A Little Life

2015 • 1,960 Readers • 720 pages 4.1

All Systems Red

#1 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

2017 • 3,508 Readers • 144 pages 4.1

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

#1 of 2 in Monk and Robot

2021 • 1,748 Readers • 160 pages 4.3

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2020 • 2,839 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe

#1 of 2 in Aristotle and Dante

2012 • 1,171 Readers • 368 pages 4.2

The House in the Cerulean Sea

#1 of 2 in Cerulean Chronicles

2020 • 2,439 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Jurassic Park

#1 of 2 in Jurassic Park

1990 • 1,816 Readers • 805 pages 4.1

Children of Time

#1 of 3 in Children of Time

2015 • 2,073 Readers • 600 pages 4.3

Howl's Moving Castle

#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle

1986 • 1,548 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

A Court of Thorns and Roses

#1 of 5 in A Court of Thorns and Roses

2014 • 3,154 Readers • 440 pages 3.7

The Midnight Library

5 • 3,755 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Little Women

#1 of 3 in Little Women

198 • 1,893 Readers • 449 pages 4

Six of Crows

#1 of 2 in Six of Crows

2015 • 2,668 Readers • 465 pages 4.3

Animal Farm

1945 • 5,108 Readers • 122 pages 4

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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

1950 • 2,513 Readers • 208 pages 4

The Brothers Karamazov

1878 • 1,574 Readers • 908 pages 4.4

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

1999 • 2,079 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

Assassin's Apprentice

#1 of 3 in The Farseer Trilogy

1995 • 1,321 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

Recursion

2005 • 1,930 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Catch-22

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

1961 • 2,023 Readers • 466 pages 4

The Lies of Locke Lamora

#1 of 3 in Gentleman Bastard

2006 • 2,297 Readers • 745 pages 4.3

Station Eleven

2014 • 2,260 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

The Eye of the World

#1 of 14 in The Wheel of Time

1990 • 2,391 Readers • 708 pages 4

Rebecca

1938 • 1,401 Readers • 428 pages 4.1

A Wizard of Earthsea

#1 of 6 in Earthsea Cycle

1968 • 1,837 Readers • 210 pages 3.9