4.09 avg rating — 896,892 ratings

"a philosophy for our time"

3.89 avg rating — 2,233,523 ratings

"Classic Kathy and Heathcliff"

4.16 avg rating — 2,128,530 ratings

"Excellent story told by a man from a woman's viewpoint"

4.26 avg rating — 7,010,956 ratings

"Best book ever"

3.74 avg rating — 2,859,781 ratings

"Shakespeare and love and death"

3.94 avg rating — 2,557,458 ratings

"entertaining"

3.70 avg rating — 3,260,726 ratings

"Brilliant microcosm of today's society"

4.30 avg rating — 4,915,702 ratings

"Austen; Elizabeth and Darcy"

4.27 avg rating — 956,729 ratings

"Funny and fun"

3.83 avg rating — 1,345,954 ratings

"If you want to know what' wrong with America, read this book"

3.90 avg rating — 2,895,466 ratings

"George and Lenny and the Depression; hapless people on the way to nowhere"

4.11 avg rating — 1,715,432 ratings

"good story and revenge is sweet"

3.88 avg rating — 1,024,369 ratings

"Dickens; French revolution; it is a far, far better thing I do."

4.46 avg rating — 1,777,824 ratings

"Brilliant story of two very brave women"

4.16 avg rating — 2,372,227 ratings

"Gothic romance"

4.11 avg rating — 803,216 ratings

"absolutely important to understanding families and the Congo"

4.16 avg rating — 663,550 ratings

"Did not know the Catholic church could be so unfeeling"

3.69 avg rating — 409,813 ratings

"great story but questionable philosophy"

3.80 avg rating — 885,587 ratings

"What a great soap opera this book is!"

4.27 avg rating — 1,170,738 ratings

"Claire and Jamie are my favorite husband wife and he is the perfect manl"

4.28 avg rating — 763,739 ratings

4.43 avg rating — 9,893 ratings

"everybody should read this"

4.59 avg rating — 262,200 ratings

"wonderful book that opens with pigs fighting over a rattlesnake; I love Gus McCall."

3.80 avg rating — 3,956,347 ratings

"classic Salinger"

4.37 avg rating — 356,557 ratings

"makes me smile"

4.09 avg rating — 744,063 ratings

"one of the first docu-fictions; really good"

4.14 avg rating — 401,569 ratings

"great mystery"

4.18 avg rating — 3,490,964 ratings

"absolutely the best thing I've read in a long time"

4.12 avg rating — 531,028 ratings

"classic and another perspective on WWI"

3.65 avg rating — 1,858,223 ratings

"Especially enjoyed Italy and ashram. Not so much Borneo"

4.25 avg rating — 367,816 ratings

"great plot"

4.33 avg rating — 2,544,029 ratings

"inspiring"

3.95 avg rating — 571,520 ratings

"heartbreaking WWII story"

4.13 avg rating — 214,138 ratings

3.43 avg rating — 567,708 ratings

"want a closer look at the issues of the Congo"

4.23 avg rating — 334,188 ratings

"sage wisdom and advice"

4.27 avg rating — 1,665,631 ratings

"classic Christie"

3.53 avg rating — 240,104 ratings

"great look at rising middle class in medieval England"

3.94 avg rating — 586,244 ratings

"funny and happy"

3.61 avg rating — 471,332 ratings

"brilliant statement about our individuality"

4.04 avg rating — 571,030 ratings

"appalling story but great suspense"

4.05 avg rating — 263,121 ratings

"classic Dickens"

3.93 avg rating — 788,594 ratings

"had never read this sort of book before; really liked it"

3.85 avg rating — 548,624 ratings

"another classic"

3.92 avg rating — 480,748 ratings

"classic"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 369,055 ratings

"good mystery and crime plot; mother and dtr. relationship"

4.34 avg rating — 166,762 ratings

"hero and danger and risk and sacrifice"

3.92 avg rating — 204,739 ratings

"important in the history of civil rights for all the invisible men and women"

4.36 avg rating — 95,588 ratings

"South Africa, apartheid and tolerance"

3.69 avg rating — 230,883 ratings

"a young woman's coming of age and awareness, important to me"

4.11 avg rating — 117,881 ratings

"poetry by one of the best"

3.96 avg rating — 243,310 ratings

"it's Salinger."

4.46 avg rating — 127,475 ratings

"my son't favorite book. I still read it to students."

4.15 avg rating — 351,368 ratings

"want to read O'Brien's perspective on Viet Nam vets"

3.99 avg rating — 323,089 ratings

"brilliant war book"

3.77 avg rating — 206,606 ratings

"Good philosophy for the time we live in"

4.26 avg rating — 996,908 ratings

4.02 avg rating — 1,209,215 ratings

"I want to know his experience and why he walked away from the world."

3.85 avg rating — 149,952 ratings

"best book ever about the midwest and the immigrants who settled it,"

3.60 avg rating — 234,455 ratings

"excellent story for young people to see connections between action and consequence"