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.

House of Leaves

House of Leaves
ByMark Z. Danielewski

1999 • 2,412 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

#1 of 4 in Wayfarers

2014 • 2,321 Readers • 423 pages 4.1

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar
BySylvia Plath

1963 • 2,573 Readers • 234 pages 4

All Systems Red

#1 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

All Systems Red
ByMartha Wells

2017 • 4,978 Readers • 90 pages 4.1

Persuasion

Persuasion
ByJane Austen

19 • 1,308 Readers • 289 pages 4.1

The Golden Compass

#1 of 3 in His Dark Materials

The Golden Compass
ByPhilip Pullman

1995 • 3,116 Readers • 399 pages 4

The Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles
ByMadeline Miller

2011 • 4,268 Readers • 384 pages 4.2

The Means
ByAmy Fusselman

5 Readers 5

Summer Sons

Summer Sons
ByLee Mandelo

2021 • 330 Readers 4

Gideon the Ninth

#1 of 3 in The Locked Tomb

Gideon the Ninth
ByTamsyn Muir

2019 • 2,613 Readers • 448 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 • 3,704 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Comfort Me With Apples

Comfort Me With Apples
ByCatherynne M. Valente

2021 • 414 Readers 3.5

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

2022 • 431 Readers • 353 pages 4.6

World of Wonders

World of Wonders
ByAimee Nezhukumatathil

2020 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

2018 • 182 Readers • 320 pages 4

The Falcon Thief

The Falcon Thief
ByJoshua Hammer

2020 • 23 Readers • 336 pages 4.2

The Dragon Behind the Glass

2016 • 19 Readers • 319 pages 3.7

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
ByMary Shelley

1818 • 3,839 Readers • 269 pages 3.8