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 Midnight Library

2020 • 4,287 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Howl's Moving Castle

#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle
ByDiana Wynne Jones

1986 • 1,782 Readers • 448 pages 4.2

The House in the Cerulean Sea

#1 of 2 in Cerulean Chronicles

2020 • 2,824 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

This Is How You Lose the Time War

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

2019 • 3,380 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1925 • 4,914 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Reidverse

2017 • 3,463 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Piranesi

Piranesi
BySusanna Clarke

2019 • 3,627 Readers • 272 pages 4.3

The Hobbit

#0 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit
ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1937 • 6,216 Readers • 300 pages 4.3

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

Sunrise on the Reaping

#0.5 of 3 in The Hunger Games

Sunrise on the Reaping
BySuzanne Collins

2025 • 1,032 Readers • 382 pages 4.3

Why this book?

It gave me all the answers to my questions about haymitch and just how everything had evolved to the hunger games original triology

Middle of the Night

Middle of the Night
ByRiley Sager

2024 • 337 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

Why this book?

A real page turner that I will never forget and the character arcs in this one were so incredibly good.

The Only One Left

The Only One Left
ByRiley Sager

2023 • 939 Readers • 397 pages 3.9

Why this book?

o.O why not!?! this one was HOLY MOLY good! I am keeping this on my shelf cause i want to revisit and read again in the future.

Lock Every Door

Lock Every Door
ByRiley Sager

2019 • 643 Readers • 386 pages 3.7

Why this book?

Because it was the perfect level of creepy and suspenseful and sooo soo good

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark
ByRiley Sager

2020 • 764 Readers • 413 pages 3.9

Why this book?

I love a good haunted house book and this one was by far a really good build up book. this was my first exposure to sager and haven't been able to put him down since.

How to Sell a Haunted House

2022 • 851 Readers • 13h 3.7

Why this book?

Not that I wasn't creeped out by dolls and haunted houses but this book took it to a whole new level for me. Loved this book and the sibling dynamic. Definitely holding onto this one to read in the future.

The Four Winds

The Four Winds
ByKristin Hannah

2021 • 631 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

Why this book?

as a mom this book crushed me but it was compelling, powerful, amazing and by far my favorite of hannah's

Ready Player One

#1 of 2 in Ready Player One

Ready Player One
ByErnest Cline

2008 • 4,277 Readers • 384 pages 4

1984

1984
ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 8,604 Readers • 304 pages 4.2

Why this book?

Terrifying but was inspiring to see how even in the dark the light we always come out and win.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2020 • 3,219 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Why this book?

This book changed how i look at life and situations in life and what it means to live a full life, it was raw and emotional and everything i ever wanted in a book

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

#1 of 3 in Ralph S. Mouse

1923 • 118 Readers • 180 pages 4

Why this book?

Loved beverly cleary books as a small girl. Love the adventures of ralph and his motorcycle

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

1997 • 7,936 Readers • 309 pages 4.3

Why this book?

I have an annual reread of this and have been reading this to my kids. This book was everything i wanted to be transported into a fantasy magical world.