What is the best book of all time that you have read?

Submitted by SteveTheEagle on October 6, 2025

I’m curious

30 Comments

Level 54

Oct 6, 2025

For me, it would have to be Animal Farm or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I haven’t read a lot of books, but those books are genuinely brilliant in different ways.

Level 61

Oct 6, 2025

Any of the I Survived books. That is how I found out about some events in history

Level 57

Oct 6, 2025

Well, I haven’t read a whole lot of “good” books, but I enjoyed Lexicon by Max Barry.

Level 79

Oct 6, 2025

Fahrenheit 451 is by far my favorite book of all time, and one I still revisit pretty frequently even years later.

The only other two books I’ve reread as an adult are The Heart of America by Mike Trout (about a guy cycling across America) and Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (about one of the deadliest Mount Everest climbs in history). Highly recommend both.

Level ∞

Oct 6, 2025

"Into Thin Air" was great.

Level 78

Oct 7, 2025

They kept playing a movie based on that book in all the tea houses on my Everest Base Camp Trek. I didn't watch it cuz it was my first trek, and I didn’t need any discouragement! 😅

Level 54

Oct 6, 2025

I remember I read into the wild by Jon krakauer and it was really good, my friend keeps telling me to read into thin air

Level 54

Oct 6, 2025

The Silmarillion or The Lord of the Rings

Level 92

Oct 7, 2025

Somehow I'm pretty sure we all knew you were going to say that. Though I'm a bit surprised you didn't say The Hobbit :)

Level 54

Oct 7, 2025

lol I was thinking of it but I didnt want to list too many books

Level 92

Oct 9, 2025

lol

Level 71

Oct 6, 2025

The Extraordinary Education of Nicolas Benedict

The Bible

Level 79

Oct 6, 2025

Oh man I haven’t thought about that one in years. Mysterious Benedict Society is absolutely the best children’s book ever written.

Level 61

Oct 6, 2025

The Holy Bible is awesome

Level 92

Oct 7, 2025

Both great books! :)

Level 23

Oct 6, 2025

The Book Thief

Level 81

Oct 7, 2025

I've seen the movie, didn't realise it was from a book tbh. I'll have to look for it now. The books are usually way more descriptive than a film.

Level 83

Oct 6, 2025

I really connected with the Foundation Trilogy as a teen. To Kill a Mockingbird is pretty amazing. Infinite Jest is borderline unreadable but maybe affected me more than any book I’ve ever read. Best… uh… Animal Farm and 1984. Extremely tightly written and always relevant.

Level 54

Oct 7, 2025

Great picks dimby

Level 78

Oct 7, 2025

The Short Stories compilations by Somerset Maugham have been pretty insightful when it comes to human nature. However, with his trademark cynicism and scepticism, Maugham offers little to no hope for change.

The New Testament was definitely a surprise, in a shake-you-up way!

And I love some of Shakespeare’s more upbeat works like Twelfth Night.

Level 33

Oct 7, 2025

Hunger Games : Sunrise on the Reaping. I wait for the movie

Level 71

Oct 7, 2025

Ooh. That was a nice book. Not a fan of violent movies though... The book has questionable scenes that would be inappropriate to incorporate into a movie...

Level 81

Oct 7, 2025

Two books I've read several times are Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Level 92

Oct 7, 2025

(The Bible of course lol)

All of Roald Dahl's books.

All of Agatha Christie's books.

The Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart.

A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket.

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

Favorite standalone books would be The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown and a childhood favorite called The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo.

Oh and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (another childhood favorite though it still holds up amazingly).

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Level 80

Oct 7, 2025

I love ASOUE.

Level 71

Oct 8, 2025

OOH. I love all of those series's (never read Agatha Christie though. The rest are excellent books!!!)

Level 81

Oct 8, 2025

Agatha Christie was one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century. From young children's books (Noddy) to teen (Secret Seven and Famous Five series) right up to adult crime novels. Many of her books have been made into movies, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express to name just two.

Level 78

Oct 11, 2025

She was an engaging writer! Wasn’t it Enid Blyton (Darrell Waters’ pen name) who wrote the Famous Five series?

Level 78

Oct 8, 2025

Series of Unfortunate Events is amazing

The Westing Game is really good too

Level 56

Oct 9, 2025

The absolute true diary of a part time indian is one of the only books that i enjoy