3.85 avg rating — 507 ratings

"A superb book about two opposing leaders during Roman times. Few historical novels ever put me in the moment so completely."

4.04 avg rating — 1,560 ratings

"A fascinating look at WW2 from the German side, written by a brilliant officer with a real gift for writing. "

3.83 avg rating — 664,317 ratings

"A masterpiece of classic horror, it also has the value of doing Victorian London right. "

4.33 avg rating — 91,824 ratings

"Maybe "the" Civil War novel of all time. "

4.41 avg rating — 1,112 ratings

"Derek Robinson demolishes the mythos surrounding the Battle of Britain with iconoclastic glee in this superbly cynical novel. "

3.93 avg rating — 5,907,053 ratings

"A beautiful and sorrowful tale about love and the human condition set in the Jazz Age."

4.25 avg rating — 21,653 ratings

"If you read this, you never have to read anything else about the Mafia in your life. Unless I wrote it. "

4.34 avg rating — 737,651 ratings

"Not a big fan of fantasy but George R.R. Martin does the "creative surround" so perfectly that Westeros may as well be as real as Los Angeles. It certainly is colder. "

3.97 avg rating — 2,817 ratings

"Terrific little-known novel about WWIII, set from the Soviet side. A terrific antidote to Tom Clancy."

3.86 avg rating — 745 ratings

"Kobler's prose is so good I credit him with being one of several writers that inspired me to do this for a living myself. "

4.51 avg rating — 216,786 ratings

"Not just great mystery and writing but all the atmosphere of Victorian and Edwardian London. "

4.32 avg rating — 24,451 ratings

"This is one of the best novelizations I've ever read: not only does it fill plot holes left over from the film, it brings the noise as a novel in its own right. "

4.05 avg rating — 506 ratings

"Irving's biography of "The Desert Fox" is the best action bio I've ever read. "

3.67 avg rating — 31,305 ratings

"King's rambling but fun-as-hell examination of horror in literature and in film from 1950 - 1980. "

4.24 avg rating — 1,267,142 ratings

""A magnum opus of terror" is how one reviewer described this novel. He was right. Sublime."

3.66 avg rating — 54,128 ratings

"Dated but enjoyable, this is the sort of mystery you can re-read, which is sayings something."

4.54 avg rating — 7,629 ratings

"Shelby Foote's three volume series on the Civil War is a masterwork that every American should read."

4.09 avg rating — 96,720 ratings

"I wasn't expecting to find historical fiction about Michaelangelo to be riveting, but this is a helluva book."

4.38 avg rating — 59,450 ratings

"The first of Wouk's two-book series about a Navy family during WW2 is sweeping, romantic and has real literary value. "

4.29 avg rating — 1,624,247 ratings

"The first fantasy book I ever read still sets the standard for the genre. "

4.07 avg rating — 372,826 ratings

"This might be the perfect novel. "

3.99 avg rating — 19,722 ratings

"A terrific horror-fantasy written by a guy who knew what the hell he was doing at every step. Terrific characters and great atmosphere. "

3.91 avg rating — 2,253 ratings

"I read this book once a year and never failed to be impressed and inspired by the tale of the slave who burst his chains."

4.14 avg rating — 340 ratings

"Everyone who romanticizes communism ought to read this firsthand account of life in the Soviet army of "liberation.""

4.26 avg rating — 6,000 ratings

"Bucheim's book is "a novel but not a work of fiction." It is the best thing ever written about submarine warfare and the toll it takes on human beings. A terrific, artistic, brutal, vulgar novel about Hitler's U-boat war."

4.39 avg rating — 813 ratings

"Damion Hunter's 3-book series about a Roman family is irresistible melodrama and just plain ole fun. This is the best-written of the trio. "

4.15 avg rating — 21,573 ratings

"This memoir of WW1 is so controversial they won't put it in schools. Nuff said."

3.38 avg rating — 81 ratings

"One of the books that inspired me to write as a child, it's still guilty fun today. Shockingly well-written considering it's, well, Captain America."

4.24 avg rating — 652 ratings

"One of the most inspiring stories I've ever read or hope to read. Should be mandatory for college students. "

4.33 avg rating — 329 ratings

"If you're not a fan of Orwell and you read this, you will be. "

3.79 avg rating — 161 ratings

"A fascinating story about an actor's journey into a healthier lifestyle, both physically and spiritually."

4.14 avg rating — 180,281 ratings

"A terrific, slam-bang antiwar novel meant as a sort of counterweight to Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers." "

4.16 avg rating — 2,879 ratings

"Romantic suspense isn't exactly my cup of tea, but Tami Hoag sold me on it with this 2-book series about a kidnapping in a small town. "

4.12 avg rating — 1,848 ratings

"Ever wonder what Germans soldiers were thinking and feeling during WW2? This is the memoir of a totally unrepentant German ace, and it reads like a novel."

4.02 avg rating — 532 ratings

"Aleksey Tolstoy was called a "literary prostitute" by George Orwell, but this 1,000+ page epic about the Russian Revolution is, despite its propagandistic intent, well worth the year it will take to read it."

4.19 avg rating — 29,944 ratings

"Clive Barker's dark, sexually-charged genius is on museum display with these exercises in horror, black humor and the macabre."

4.05 avg rating — 3,066 ratings

"Lawrence Sanders was one of the best prose-writers of his or any other generation, full stop. "