4.20 avg rating — 5,406,639 ratings

"There has never been a book that has affected me the way this one has. Basically changed my brain chemistry. I have read it multiple times and I have been able to say without a doubt for years that it is my favorite book."

4.13 avg rating — 1,056,097 ratings

"This is a masterpiece of horror, wonder, and awe. I think about this book multiple times a month, honestly. It contains one of the most brutal and perfectly written death scenes I have ever read."

3.83 avg rating — 124,328 ratings

"This is the single most terrifying and disgusting book I have ever read. It still chills me to the bone even now."

4.02 avg rating — 4,504,863 ratings

"This is among the most important books ever written. It was a primer for my young mind's eventual views on politics."

3.99 avg rating — 384,805 ratings

"One of the best love stories ever written. Not just about two people, but also how a woman comes to love herself completely. One of the only required reading projects that really felt necessary and fulfilling in high school"

4.04 avg rating — 548,841 ratings

"Haunting and disgusting. I am convinced there is not another book like it. "

4.39 avg rating — 2,859,578 ratings

"This is one of the most heart breaking books I've had the pleasure of reading. It holds the most poignant twist I know of."

4.15 avg rating — 1,014,044 ratings

"A brilliant criticism of academic society and a deliciously written unreliable narrator. If read correctly, you should leave this book sharply questioning and critiquing all of the education you have received and all of the elitism that has kept you from furthering it. The book is a true picture of just how far humans will go to prove that their ends justify their wretched means."

3.87 avg rating — 940,202 ratings

"Perhaps the most misunderstood book and author that I know of. When read properly, this is a chilling account from an excellently written unreliable narrator. It makes you squirm in disgust and, if your not careful, you may find yourself being manipulated by the narrator for brief moments. A harrowing read but an important one."

4.11 avg rating — 517,424 ratings

"Bleak and heart wrenching. One of the most true and explicit depictions of war and all its sorrow."

4.42 avg rating — 1,276,997 ratings

"A book that embodies the indomitable human spirit. One of the most human books I have read. Also one of the most unique."

4.16 avg rating — 121,938 ratings

"My favorite fantasy book. It touched my soul with an enchantment that is so rare to come by. "

3.80 avg rating — 299,232 ratings

4.34 avg rating — 1,248,275 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 1,865,117 ratings

4.04 avg rating — 209,409 ratings

"Once, before The Troop, I regarded this book as the scariest I had read. It still holds high regard in my heart. I couldn't stand to read this book at night."

4.01 avg rating — 121,669 ratings

4.08 avg rating — 213,069 ratings

"A story I read as a child and then again as a senior in high school. It stays in my heart and will always be one of the most beautiful stories ever told."

4.32 avg rating — 120,059 ratings

"This was the book that single handedly got me into reading novels as a child. I would not be as well read as I am today without it. The opening pages still ring in my head from time to time."

4.13 avg rating — 778,565 ratings

"Chilling and enchanting. This book had me spooked but also in a constant state of awe. "

4.35 avg rating — 9,824,786 ratings

"One of the most important books of our age. This is THE modern dystopian classic. "

4.14 avg rating — 1,586,156 ratings

"The first book I read in Pre AP Literature as a child. Every student in the classroom was moved to tears. I had never been in a room before with so many people who cared for a book like I did and who were all feeling the same thing I was. It was a beautiful experience."

3.93 avg rating — 5,868,037 ratings

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"My mother read these poems to me all the time as a child. It wasn't long after that I started writing my own."

4.32 avg rating — 393,959 ratings

"Before bed, my mother would often read this story to me. It was likely one of the first books read to me. "