3.86 avg rating — 1,301,846 ratings

"Greatest story ever told."

3.77 avg rating — 10,100 ratings

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

3.85 avg rating — 18,103 ratings

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

3.81 avg rating — 6,368 ratings

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

3.58 avg rating — 792 ratings

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

3.91 avg rating — 40,221 ratings

"Enter the (heroic) hero."

3.92 avg rating — 317,411 ratings

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

3.68 avg rating — 340,866 ratings

"Adventure story becomes inspiring myth."

3.70 avg rating — 104,735 ratings

"The hero is called Natti Bumppo."

4.34 avg rating — 1,096,932 ratings

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

3.72 avg rating — 5,890 ratings

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

3.92 avg rating — 248,200 ratings

"Played a part in Emancipation."

3.75 avg rating — 34,763 ratings

"Fielding loved Cervantes, and influenced Austen."

4.30 avg rating — 5,050,185 ratings

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

3.88 avg rating — 440,314 ratings

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

4.30 avg rating — 336,349 ratings

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

4.13 avg rating — 789 ratings

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

3.85 avg rating — 558,710 ratings

"As mythic as Robinson Crusoe."

3.64 avg rating — 56,902 ratings

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

3.76 avg rating — 142,480 ratings

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

3.82 avg rating — 369,926 ratings

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

4.01 avg rating — 89,790 ratings

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

3.93 avg rating — 428,649 ratings

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

4.21 avg rating — 5,824,843 ratings

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

3.80 avg rating — 4,035,261 ratings

"Teenagers get a voice."

3.61 avg rating — 462,688 ratings

"Beatniks and counter culture get a voice."

3.86 avg rating — 120,005 ratings

"Crime becomes literature"

3.93 avg rating — 174,845 ratings

"Chandler adds poetry to the mix."

4.55 avg rating — 753,435 ratings

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

4.05 avg rating — 37,186 ratings

"SF becomes literature."

4.40 avg rating — 6,257 ratings

"Spawned an industry."