3.81 avg rating — 214,809 ratings

"The best novel I have ever read - several times over 40 years. She wrote how I thought, yet could never express it alike."

4.54 avg rating — 731,010 ratings

"Oh! where to start? It wasn't long enough, for one."

3.92 avg rating — 23,755 ratings

"No words of mine could begin... read this! Do!!!"

4.41 avg rating — 3,151,569 ratings

"The cause of poor A Level results, I regret not a moment spent. Incomparable, much mimicked, most lauded."

4.58 avg rating — 1,041,354 ratings

4.50 avg rating — 1,125,761 ratings

3.92 avg rating — 8,807 ratings

"Falling in love with magic as a child leaves an indelible silver stream in the soul. Sheer joy."

4.10 avg rating — 14,954 ratings

"After Titus Groan, how could we also have this? A literary treasure, so awesome in its scope, I defy him to do it again."

4.29 avg rating — 1,627,833 ratings

"A new, indomitable universe in SF, rivaling (in it's initial trio) Asimov's Foundation trilogy."

4.20 avg rating — 34,144 ratings

"The supreme Culture novel. Great fun. The ideas! If only... One of the best books I've read. Many times. I even thanked him for it."

4.24 avg rating — 3,153,476 ratings

"It is THE children's classic, isn't it! I was in love."

3.91 avg rating — 392,242 ratings

"Probably - just - my favourite of the Narnia books (after TLTWATW, which was my first love). Why? It's such a GREAT adventure."

3.99 avg rating — 422,212 ratings

"I was blown away, across the DiscWorld, on page 1, and it never stopped galloping. And after, what? 40 of them, it's still the best."

4.06 avg rating — 1,502 ratings

"The most sophisticated political SF novel I've read, with a glorious view over the girl's own shoulders throughout."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,252 ratings

"It is gently evocative in its simplicity of that deep love during an acutely sad, torturous period."

4.08 avg rating — 46,319 ratings

"It's a HUGE achievement, a hugely absorbing weave of stories, a huge historical novel. And it's about where I live."

3.86 avg rating — 117,239 ratings

"It affected me so much, yet I still cannot really articulate how. Perhaps the sanity that pervades through his style."

3.85 avg rating — 854,809 ratings

"Uniquely involving and affecting in a soft affectionate style that sets it apart: the love for Tommy through her gentle eyes."

4.32 avg rating — 80,238 ratings

"Epitomizes our Mr Pratchett's gleeful affectionate humour, and boldly (for an old man) writes from a girl's pov. Lovely."

4.06 avg rating — 105,673 ratings

"A masterpiece, not merely in that it set the standard in the genre, nor that it was succeeded by 2 almost equally brilliant sequels, all of which painted the ghastly pedestrian shabbiness of 70s spying in exactly the right colour: a kind of grubby beige."

4.03 avg rating — 1,618,144 ratings

"A fantasy giant, a must-read of the genre. Classic, classical, novel."

4.02 avg rating — 240,792 ratings

"Utter childhood innocence in a summer's dream."

4.28 avg rating — 202,886 ratings

"For Asimov not only to succeed, but further the mind-boggling galaxy he created in F1, is - mind-boggling (mule)."

4.01 avg rating — 267,863 ratings

"Ambitious, inventive, constructed of multiple genres and storylines interlinked by manifold motifs, it's richly written and rewarding."

3.98 avg rating — 484,801 ratings

"The joy of returning to Narnia with Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter, and waiting for Aslan (after TLTWATW) was inexpressible."

4.05 avg rating — 607,347 ratings

"Not quite how it all started, but how it all started. The scene outside Uncle Andrew's house, the wood... worlds birthed."

4.15 avg rating — 2,424,616 ratings

"One of the best writers I've read; one of her best books."

4.40 avg rating — 222 ratings

"Being inside this mind is wonderful."

3.85 avg rating — 124,708 ratings

"Transforming."

3.87 avg rating — 11,513 ratings

"This romp around the minds and bodies of parallel worlds is artful. Sheer classy entertainment. And a cache of ghastly characters, as usual, from Mr Banks."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,606 ratings

"A superb prequel to the even better Regenesis, sophisticated, smart, and a right proper length."

4.01 avg rating — 168,694 ratings

"It gallops from where The Colour of Magic dropped off, chased by some very fast luggage indeed. It's - magic!"

3.94 avg rating — 2,381 ratings

"I was smitten by Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy. Crouchback slouches his way through the War."

3.94 avg rating — 168,547 ratings

"The archetype of the private dick novel, a style that set the bar for a genre, and a character immortal."

3.91 avg rating — 777 ratings

"Norman Hunter, Erich Kästner and C.S. Lewis got me into books. This is the best of the wonderful mad-cap short stories."

3.90 avg rating — 3,702 ratings

"The delightful continuation of Crouchback's War."

3.86 avg rating — 2,462,664 ratings

"For a rather gruesome pov, which would not normally attract, your hopes were with Susie Salmon."

4.03 avg rating — 9,908 ratings

"Richer than a thousand imaginations, vaster than a hundred castles, peopled with siblings and school hates, unique, eternal, glorious. And Fuchsia."

3.72 avg rating — 49,890 ratings

"A struggle to get into, it was so worthwhile. It's a kind of Lost In Translation book - your'e either in, or you're out."

4.07 avg rating — 199,676 ratings

"My introduction to Granny Weatherwax - nuff said."

3.96 avg rating — 163,566 ratings

"A beautiful writer, an ambitious novel, a worthy winner."

3.59 avg rating — 5,844 ratings

"I can't rightly say. It's both alluring and repelling, it's charmingly evocative of a world I feel in some way born into, but never knew."

4.10 avg rating — 42,443 ratings

"An utterly compelling - if challenging - exploration into the esoterics of the search for personal excellence."

4.28 avg rating — 707,981 ratings

"If you do not read these 7 books, surely part of you is missing."

4.42 avg rating — 108,666 ratings

"Indubitably the finest SF trilogy yet written - the emblem of the genre."

4.20 avg rating — 5,464,922 ratings

"The mood stays with you somewhere deep down."

3.79 avg rating — 23,919 ratings

"An appalling delight."

4.17 avg rating — 596,588 ratings

"Possibly the most imaginative and integral creation of a future meta-civilisation SF will ever know. Till Banks."

3.91 avg rating — 237,493 ratings

"If you should read only 3 of Shakespeare's plays: The Tempest, King Lear, and any other."

4.04 avg rating — 1,511 ratings

"Waugh completes a considerable feat."

3.96 avg rating — 3,475 ratings

"Pure idyllic Elysium down in Kent."

3.83 avg rating — 17,082 ratings

"Despite the American bit, great."

3.52 avg rating — 7,328 ratings

"Banks lifted his mainstream fiction in this, out of what might have been a cynical subject, into optimism."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 769,904 ratings

"Burgess shocked and rocked my/the world with Beethoven, dystopia and nadzat. It's why I now love classical music."

4.09 avg rating — 42,863 ratings

"More Marlowe dragged around smokey bars and gettin' sapped - yes please."

4.19 avg rating — 46,766 ratings

"A 3rd pillar after The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely. Gosh."

4.19 avg rating — 306,910 ratings

"It was zany, engrossing, smart and pacey, I was aware for the first time of the size of my eyes."

4.02 avg rating — 16,641 ratings

"I loved the good clean properness of it all amidst the sordid crimes."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,858,004 ratings

"Time-switching is irresistible; add in some mystery, romance, and relational dysfunction... It's a sophisticated, well-crafted piece."

4.05 avg rating — 223,169 ratings

"It is simply unputdownable (there, I used it!)."

3.98 avg rating — 75,407 ratings

"An ambitious work and world comes off in rich language and characters."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126,644 ratings

"Waugh, acerbically derisive, is here softest in a bitter-sweet romance - between a man and a man and his sister! It is a one-off."

3.88 avg rating — 28,947 ratings

"Waugh is irresistible."

4.06 avg rating — 135,210 ratings

"Atmospheric, touching."

3.66 avg rating — 8,077 ratings

"It belongs so distinctly in its setting, it feels like a part of those hills and mountains. It was damp and deep and enclosed. Loved it."

3.78 avg rating — 227,425 ratings

"If you should read only 3 of Shakespeare's plays: The Tempest, King Lear, and any other."

3.50 avg rating — 5,568 ratings

"I'm surprised it made it here, because it was a tome, but it was also very atmospheric, and very well charactered."

4.28 avg rating — 112,894 ratings

"Who, me?
YES.
Oh, dear!"

4.09 avg rating — 68,801 ratings

"I found the concept - forgive me - electric. I still love Dua."

4.31 avg rating — 1,474,002 ratings

"Just smart. x3.

And he's very good at empathy."

3.96 avg rating — 325,548 ratings

"It was beautifully written and magical, something elevated above the slum of its environs."

4.36 avg rating — 60,659 ratings

"More of Tiffany Aching - what more could you want."

4.41 avg rating — 112,718 ratings

"Guards! Guards! was a joy. This too. By now (12 in) I was insatiable."

3.84 avg rating — 23,418 ratings

"The sense of the contained, solitary integrity of the Night Manager was so superbly crafted that story became almost secondary."

4.08 avg rating — 877,475 ratings

"Hesse has a way of stirring the spiritual sense in you. This is a perfect precursor to the more challenging Glass Bead Game."

3.83 avg rating — 19,791 ratings

"The novella is one of his best Culture stories."

4.25 avg rating — 67,858 ratings

"A gorgeous follow-up to A Hat Full Of Sky, I wanted more of Tiffany Aching. I mean - what a name?!"

4.37 avg rating — 63,146 ratings

"If the best SF has the soundest and richest sociological fabric, this is it. Science and religion do mix."

3.83 avg rating — 23,927 ratings

"Shock-blitzkrieg-q-dot slam! Whoosh!! The new breed of SF."

3.77 avg rating — 149,733 ratings

"Wistful memories still linger. A re-visit is due v. soon. Or is that madness?"

4.02 avg rating — 4,554,397 ratings

"Ethical politics for humans by beasts - and animals - what a mind!"

4.34 avg rating — 235,925 ratings

"Sam Vimes is the moral hub of the storm that is Ankh-Morpork, surrounded by antic characters that are Pratchett's own."

3.99 avg rating — 26,212 ratings

"Shabby, but honourable. Could be said of almost any character in the Circus. Loved 'em."

4.05 avg rating — 35,566 ratings

"Zelazny (great name) did what no other SF author I've read has done - blended a panoply of Hindu gods with SF. Far Out!"

3.96 avg rating — 330,858 ratings

"The last of the finest (5) of the 7 most magical books written for children. Narnia was my world, mine alone, with Aslan and..."

4.06 avg rating — 86,979 ratings

"Fantasy with rocks in. Death hath no substitution. Well - there's Susan."

4.16 avg rating — 131,304 ratings

"The witches series is fabulous, fast, funny, witty and inevitably affectionate, as is Pratchett's style across his world."

3.91 avg rating — 15,257 ratings

"It lingers decades after immersion. It certainly must be read several times, and is fresh with each revisit."

4.27 avg rating — 220,279 ratings

"A surprising treasure in the Dark Tower series."

4.22 avg rating — 226,540 ratings

"The centrepiece of the trilogy, it lacks the brand of ideas of the 1st, the thrill of the the 3rd, but is part of SF legend."

4.15 avg rating — 152,531 ratings

"Carl Sagan wrote as well as he spoke."

3.91 avg rating — 12,678 ratings

"Dalgleish is cultured, suave, supremely confident. He fits in with the upper crust of the publishing world seamlessly. Smooth."

3.99 avg rating — 729,845 ratings

"I was won by its reputation, characters and issues."

4.16 avg rating — 171,688 ratings

"To read this at 17 is to be rocked into a wholly new world: so integral, smart, scary, and happening."

3.97 avg rating — 132,970 ratings

"Because you should."

4.09 avg rating — 939,644 ratings

3.56 avg rating — 41,346 ratings

3.84 avg rating — 9,567 ratings

4.12 avg rating — 548,778 ratings