3.85 avg rating — 1,287,783 ratings

"Greatest story ever told."

3.77 avg rating — 10,039 ratings

"Scandalously satirical, a 21st century novel written in Nero's Rome/"

3.85 avg rating — 17,975 ratings

"First book to add a moral to the tale."

3.80 avg rating — 6,197 ratings

"The pastoral, a theme popular up to the time when the countryside vanished in the 19th century."

3.58 avg rating — 779 ratings

"The tale of adventure, the template for most following works."

3.91 avg rating — 40,114 ratings

"Enter the (heroic) hero."

3.92 avg rating — 315,796 ratings

"Probably the best book ever written, and model for a thousand imitations."

3.68 avg rating — 339,382 ratings

"Adventure story becomes inspiring myth."

3.70 avg rating — 104,314 ratings

"The hero is called Natti Bumppo."

4.34 avg rating — 1,085,371 ratings

"Revenge is mine, says the Count, one of the most enduring of themes."

3.72 avg rating — 5,811 ratings

"Gothic, Wandering Jew, the supernatural, it's all here."

3.92 avg rating — 247,280 ratings

"Played a part in Emancipation."

3.75 avg rating — 34,699 ratings

"Fielding loved Cervantes, and influenced Austen."

4.30 avg rating — 5,014,682 ratings

"The novel, or the literary novel, as we know it."

3.88 avg rating — 438,137 ratings

"As influential as the passing of the Reform Act in Britain."

4.30 avg rating — 334,449 ratings

"Crime doesn't pay, but it's fun catching the villain. The game's afoot!"

4.12 avg rating — 787 ratings

"Incomparably the most imaginatively brilliant of writers. Whatever it is, Wells did it first."

3.85 avg rating — 555,764 ratings

"As mythic as Robinson Crusoe."

3.64 avg rating — 56,733 ratings

"Lawrence extended the scope of what the novel could be about, brilliantly."

3.76 avg rating — 141,833 ratings

"Is it a novel or a long epic poem? Joyce did the impossible, and blended genres."

3.82 avg rating — 367,568 ratings

"The style we still think of as classic writing."

4.01 avg rating — 89,645 ratings

"Mowgli let to Tarzan. The noble savage as hero. Made us imperialists feel better."

3.93 avg rating — 422,734 ratings

"Somethings wrong, you don't know what, nor how to change it. Suffocatingly terrifying."

4.21 avg rating — 5,771,687 ratings

"We didn't listen then, perhaps we never will (with apologies to Don McLean)."

3.80 avg rating — 4,015,601 ratings

"Teenagers get a voice."

3.61 avg rating — 460,601 ratings

"Beatniks and counter culture get a voice."

3.86 avg rating — 119,224 ratings

"Crime becomes literature"

3.94 avg rating — 173,792 ratings

"Chandler adds poetry to the mix."

4.55 avg rating — 749,425 ratings

"Epic fantasy on a scale not seen since the Epic of Gilgamesh."

4.05 avg rating — 36,754 ratings

"SF becomes literature."

4.40 avg rating — 6,255 ratings

"Spawned an industry."