3.64 avg rating — 165,069 ratings

"The Book that has most resonated with me. My all-time favorite book, read it for the first time when I was a very similar person to Stephen, a troubled teenager longing for an inner revolution that would spark an outer renaissance. Have read it at several stages of my life, 15, 16, 19, 20, and now just recently as I turned 22 and I've gathered a different meaning from it every time. It is simply a masterpiece."

3.76 avg rating — 138,661 ratings

"Rife with allusions, puns, old Irish jokes that only an early 20th century Dubliner could fully appreciate; Ulysses is very much the Everest of literature. It is the one book that while not the hardest, is often one of the most often begun but least often completed. Ulysses is the best book in the Joycean canon but it isn't my favorite... (See A Portrait of the Artist)"

4.03 avg rating — 1,000,881 ratings

"This is the essential California novel... Without it can you truly say you are a Californian? or a literary enthusiast? This is, in my opinion, Steinbeck's magnum opus, and the book that most accurately portrays the transitional state of California, Oklahoma, and the entire road in between during the Dust Bowl."

3.99 avg rating — 320,195 ratings

"Hemingway's most beautiful novel, centered around the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway finds a way to make romance out of a dark period, with his own signature minimalist prose. A must read for any Hemingway fan!"

4.20 avg rating — 5,529,526 ratings

"The book that put science fiction on the map. This dystopian novel is not one that tries to instill hope in the reader nor does it try to instill despair, it presents the novel for what it is, as if this future is imminent. It is a novel that does not try to please but does so effortlessly anyway. If you're looking for lasers and spacecraft look elsewhere. However, if you are looking for a novel centered on the future whose themes and messages ring true in any era of human history. Stop here, you have found it!"