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.
Books3,221
Answers7,478
Readers1,392
Vote
Details
Rating
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
3.79
The Power of Positive Thinking
Norman Vincent Peale
3.35
Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
4.07
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
5
Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
4.38
More Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
4.28
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt
4.21
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
3.78
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
4.12
Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
3.43
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
3.89
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Beverly Cleary
4.06
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
3.7
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
3.53
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller
4.08
One for the Money
Janet Evanovich
3.74
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
3.42
The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket
3.84
Drums of Autumn
Diana Gabaldon
4.05
The Silver Metal Lover
Tanith Lee
4
Why We Took the Car
Wolfgang Herrndorf
Tim Mohr (Translator)
4.14
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
4.49
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
3.62
My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan
Tom Foreman
4.4
Boy's Life
Robert R. McCammon
4.4
Lethal White
Robert Galbraith
4.11
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
3.38
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
3.92
Still Missing
Chevy Stevens
3.85
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams
3.79
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
4.34
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Stacy Schiff
3.11
John Adams
David McCullough
4.35
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
3.91
Winter
Marissa Meyer
4.25
Fall of Giants
Ken Follett
4.12
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
3.63
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
3.45
Deep Blue
Jennifer Donnelly
3.7
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
3.83
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
3.79
In the Miso Soup
Ryū Murakami
Ralph McCarthy (Translator)
3.59
Magic Bites
Ilona Andrews
3.56
Kings Rising
C.S. Pacat
4.3
Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman
4.08
The Ersatz Elevator
Lemony Snicket
3.91
Room
Emma Donoghue
3.89
Babylon's Ashes
James S. A. Corey
4.12
The Tunnel
Ernesto Sábato
Margaret Sayers Peden
4.06
The Reader
Carol Brown Janeway
Bernhard Schlink
3.59
The Cider House Rules
Irving, John
4.13
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
3.8
Tiamat's Wrath
James S. A. Corey
4.53
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood
4.5
Veronika Decides to Die
Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Paulo Coelho
3.43
The Drowned Cities
Paolo Bacigalupi
3.92
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
5
Firestarter
Stephen King
3.58
Shades Of Grey
Jasper Fforde
4.19
Molly MOon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Georgia Byng
Isabel Gonzalez-Gallarza
2.5
Jaws
Peter Benchley
3.56
Peter and the Starcatchers
Dave Barry
Ridley Pearson
3.89
Destination Unknown
Agatha Christie
3.29
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
3.91
The Child Thief
Brom
3.79
Burr
Gore Vidal
4
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.27
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.23
Lie With Me
Philippe Besson
Molly Ringwald (Translator)
4.27
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
Mark Frost
3.59
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
4.09
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
Bill Perkins
3.76
The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf
3.9
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
4.25
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks
4.38
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
3.71
The Day Of The Triffids
John Wyndham
3.82
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.59
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
3.99
One Past Midnight: The Langoliers
Stephen King
3.81
Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich
Keith Gessen (translator)
4.36
The Inadequate Heir
Danielle L. Jensen
3.93
West with the Night
Beryl Markham
4.22
The little white horse
Elizabeth Goudge
4.09
William Shakespeare, the complete works
William Shakespeare
5
Deception Point
Dan Brown
3.47
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity