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"My favorite for his terrifying insight into the mind."

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"Actually and truly beautiful. Literature should always have such a brilliant and powerful glow to it."

4.16 avg rating — 28,712 ratings

"Also stunningly beautiful. This book has such a quiet understated power to it."

4.13 avg rating — 83,281 ratings

"Shocking and in many ways horrifying, yet a very wise and powerful novel. A book I read feverishly and which has haunted me ever since. Her characters are marvelous."

3.99 avg rating — 896,351 ratings

"So funny and sick and twisted. Endlessly hilarious."

4.06 avg rating — 120,051 ratings

"This is my one indulgence in my top ten. And I always cry at the end."

4.10 avg rating — 1,506,364 ratings

"So half the time I was so weirded out I didn't know what to think, but somehow it has stuck with me. I love his other books as well, but this one is more, well, bizarre."

4.16 avg rating — 663,539 ratings

"I am so glad my ancestors left Ireland. I jest, but only slightly. This is such a lovely book, the prose is so... lyrical almost. I actually might love this book."

3.44 avg rating — 931,977 ratings

"This is so good, so frightening and so honest. It is not a cheerful read, but I really enjoyed it."

4.30 avg rating — 333,023 ratings

"Isabel Allende is amazing."

3.95 avg rating — 17,254 ratings

"Gail Tsukiyama is also amazing."

3.69 avg rating — 409,809 ratings

"Her philosophy is a bit extreme, but one cannot fault her writing. The story is very good. I skip the epic speech at the end."

4.12 avg rating — 531,013 ratings

"War is bad. Everyone should read this book. Everyone."

3.43 avg rating — 567,687 ratings

"I actually thought I hated this book, but I am still haunted by it. It is surprisingly short and spare, yet somehow that makes it more terrible to remember."

4.09 avg rating — 510,553 ratings

"Enjoyable, too many plants, altogether good."

3.94 avg rating — 1,771,487 ratings

"I love this incredibly cool book."

3.91 avg rating — 241,084 ratings

"Possibly my favorite Shakespeare. The scene when he runs out into the storm...amazing. Also ties into lots of literature, and is very demonstrative of medieval natural philosophy, amoung other things."

4.03 avg rating — 1,511,485 ratings

"I just read this and it is messed up! Oh, and seriously really freaky. Totally way creepier than I thought it would. With his creepy graveyard earth and his evil red eyes and his ability to turn into mist. There is more, but people should just read it."

3.92 avg rating — 1,954,639 ratings

"This is so, so, so much better than all the weird stuff that has spawned from it. Not only is it a capstone piece of romantic literature, it is also a facinating look at human nature. And it is also pretty cool. I mean, the monster reads these crazy things and anyway, it is very interesting."

3.91 avg rating — 1,489,228 ratings

"This is such a short, miserable, depressing book. Oh, and it is very, very good."

4.10 avg rating — 350,957 ratings

"Not particularly great literature, but it is fun."

4.11 avg rating — 117,882 ratings

"If anyone has not been introduced to the most quintessential of American poets, they should be. Walt Whitman writes with the very force of life."

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