4.24 avg rating — 3,142,968 ratings

4.26 avg rating — 6,857,547 ratings

"Not one of my favorites, but it's a good book. I don't remember if it was assigned for class in two different years, or if I'd read it before it was assigned and then read it again for the class."

4.30 avg rating — 4,441,283 ratings

"The only Tolkien book I've reread. I plan to reread LotR eventually, but they're so much more dense."

4.58 avg rating — 4,819,004 ratings

3.97 avg rating — 1,281,916 ratings

"Due for another reread."

4.57 avg rating — 4,177,373 ratings

4.50 avg rating — 3,781,279 ratings

4.39 avg rating — 1,232,478 ratings

"Impossible to remember how many times I've read this one."

4.58 avg rating — 3,644,805 ratings

4.62 avg rating — 4,096,822 ratings

"I'm counting this one even though I think I just skimmed it the second time..."

4.43 avg rating — 4,472,613 ratings

4.35 avg rating — 1,505,988 ratings

"I can recite one of the poems from memory, and pieces of a few others."

4.12 avg rating — 2,797,621 ratings

"I think this was assigned for class in middle school."

4.28 avg rating — 706,078 ratings

"I've read each story at least twice, and most of them three or four times. I have a paperback copy of the whole series that is falling apart, and I want to replace it with a hardcover soon (B&N has a very pretty edition), but I probably won't ever get rid of it. This is because it reminds me of the summer that my mom's dad had open heart surgery and took much longer than expected to recover, so we spent most of the summer at their house. I can't remember how old I was, but basically I was almost the oldest one among my siblings and cousins, and I didn't think the younger ones really understood how serious it was (most of them were not allowed in the ICU; I wasn't technically old enough either, but they let me see him anyway). We spent much of the time by ourselves, supervised by one cousin about five years older than me (the age difference seemed much bigger then), and we quickly ran out of things to occupy our evenings. So, I started reading to them. I'm not sure how many we got through, but it was at least three books. They were all old enough to read on their own, but they liked the stories, and it was a good way to take my mind off other things."

4.22 avg rating — 2,010,125 ratings

4.02 avg rating — 423,747 ratings

"One of my favorite books in middle school."

4.32 avg rating — 844,965 ratings

"My mom says that before I could actually read, I memorized Dr. Seuss books and pretended I was reading them. (I'm not sure if this is one of the ones I did that with, but it's likely.)"

4.37 avg rating — 441,771 ratings

"This always seems to be given to people at graduations and the like, but I don't think I have a copy myself."

4.20 avg rating — 306,277 ratings

"An instant favorite (though I saw the movie many times before reading the book)"

4.06 avg rating — 607,848 ratings

"The annotated edition is fantastic."

4.25 avg rating — 1,060,772 ratings

"Another one I've read too many times to count."

4.29 avg rating — 168,124 ratings

4.09 avg rating — 935,043 ratings

"Assigned for class multiple times."

3.89 avg rating — 1,016,872 ratings

"Assigned for class multiple times."

4.03 avg rating — 1,614,800 ratings

"I have read/listened to this book so many times that I have much of the first chapter memorized (and a few other parts as well). I also got it in Spanish, with the intention of learning new words, but I found that I was just skipping words I didn't know because I knew the story well enough without them. I'll try again eventually."

3.94 avg rating — 1,750,104 ratings

"Due for another reread."

4.38 avg rating — 337,843 ratings

"I started out with a paperback copy, then gave it to my sister when I bought the fancy hardcover B&N edition. I think the first one is the only one I've read more than twice, but I reread my favorite passages in the others now and then."

4.61 avg rating — 149,133 ratings

"My sister has most of the collection."

4.09 avg rating — 504,923 ratings

"Due for another reread."

3.91 avg rating — 294,957 ratings

"Assigned to read in fifth grade, but I think I had read it before then. It was one of my favorites, and I reread it when the movie came out. I don't think I have a copy anymore; the one I was using for class ended up as a rainbow of color-coded notes, and I passed it on to my siblings when they had to read it. That was the most thorough I have ever been with a book assigned for class."

4.28 avg rating — 445,491 ratings

"Read once before I saw the movie, and multiple times after. Due for another reread."

4.20 avg rating — 62,853 ratings

"Due for another reread."

4.21 avg rating — 55,030 ratings

"Due for another reread."

4.18 avg rating — 220,389 ratings

"Due for another reread."

4.05 avg rating — 630,483 ratings

"This one seems designed to be one of a junior high student's favorites."

4.24 avg rating — 1,993,704 ratings

"Due for another reread."

4.15 avg rating — 459,187 ratings

"Not read as many times as the first one, but still more times than I can count."

4.05 avg rating — 603,399 ratings

4.25 avg rating — 24,007 ratings

"Possibly my favorite DWJ book. I try to recommend it to everyone (after Charmed Life)"

4.28 avg rating — 13,126 ratings

"This was given to me by my grandma. I can't remember if she "knows someone" who knows James Gurney, or if she met him at a signing or something? Whatever it was, she was briefly obsessed with him and his art. I love the world he created, and I'm slowly collecting all of the spin-off things (two TV shows, a series of short chapter books, a few longer books). This one is definitely the best, though."

3.63 avg rating — 83,723 ratings

"A sort of scavenger hunt around Europe, with its beginning and end in London. Perfect."

4.11 avg rating — 382,895 ratings

"I think I've only read this twice all the way through. I'm not sure why... I think I found the philosophical questions a bit more interesting than the plot, so I spend more time thinking about it than reading it. Also I'm not sure I like the way Lyra develops as a character. Due for another reread."

3.85 avg rating — 18,233 ratings

"Much more satisfying than Lyra's Oxford."

3.85 avg rating — 28,297 ratings

"I read most of this series in ninth grade, at the same time as a boy in some of my classes, and we discussed it now and then. After reading The Book of Night with Moon, I fell in love again with the way author explains magic, and this one is now due for another reread."

3.99 avg rating — 234,740 ratings

"I'm not sure I understood this one at all the first time I read it. Definitely due for another reread to see if it's as complex as I remember."

3.97 avg rating — 35,872 ratings

"The edition I have is "Volume I" of the Chrestomanci Chronicles, so it has both this and the second one. Because of this I tend to think of them as two halves of the same story."