4.09 avg rating — 504,324 ratings

"A marvelous fantasy with a fully-realized rabbit culture."

4.10 avg rating — 1,532 ratings

"The best of Nevil Shute's books, although for personal reasons I prefer Trustee from the Toolroom (my Dad was exactly like Keith Stewart, enough that people who knew him would recommend that he read it)."

4.41 avg rating — 211,221 ratings

"When you get to the end you wish James Clavell had devoted another 300-400 pages to Tokugawa's Victory at the Battle of Shekigahara and then some more yet to his actual Shogunate."

3.88 avg rating — 1,008,710 ratings

"This is the reason some books acheive the status of "Classic Literature.""

4.29 avg rating — 1,614,302 ratings

"Too difficult for me to absorb at the age of 13, but I vastely appreciated it when I re-read it at 28."

4.29 avg rating — 12,237 ratings

"The book which started the entire Hornblower series. I've read and re-read them all a dozen times and even recorded them once for my local blind and reading-impaired radio service to broadcast."

4.11 avg rating — 51,863 ratings

"In which Jack Ryan helps the President prosecute a war with Japan, and is appointed V.P. for his trouble, see the next book Executive Orders, in which President Ryan confronts a Middle-Eastern megalomaniac who uses the ebola virus as a "weapon of mass destruction" against the U.S.A."

4.20 avg rating — 7,100 ratings

"High concept - the moon is really a 55,000-year old Imperial Starship and humanity is descended from its loyal crew who were forced to abandon ship when a mutiny occurred, and have been preyed upon by those same mutineers ever since. Meanwhile the extra-galactic enemy that the ship had been created to face is on the way, with fleets of starships over a million strong, and a policy of exterminating all life where ever it is found. In the sequel The Armageddon Inheritance, we learn than humanity is on its own to face the alien horde. The Empire accidentally self-destructed through a biological plague transmitted by the Epire's network of interstellar matter-transmitters. Only the Emperor's personal flotilla of 50+ ships is left, with which to confront over 3 million alien starships."

4.22 avg rating — 413 ratings

"Another High Concept Sci-Fi series - a 20,000-year old corpse is found on the moon, a human corpse. The subsequent investigation postulates a colony of humans transplanted by aliens from the planet which formerly orbitted between Jupiter and Mars, and when a war breaks out between their descendants, the planet is shattered and its moon's orbit is shifted until it takes up a new orbit around Earth. Later novels reveal what became of the aliens, who were embarrassed to have abandoned humanity to its fate when they relocated to another star allogether."

3.93 avg rating — 31,275 ratings

"My personnal favorite Heinlein, novel, although Red Planet and The Moon is A Harsh Mistress come in a close second and third place."