4.02 avg rating — 4,562,312 ratings

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"I read this in my childhood, I must have been maybe 10 or 11 (and several times since), strangely this one made me fall in love with books for one, and with science fiction, even though there not much Sci-Fi in it. This served as my introduction to literature, and It will always have a special place in my heart."

3.93 avg rating — 5,926,322 ratings

4.21 avg rating — 844,505 ratings

"This was some mandatory reading in high school, and I'll tell you I was miserable when I first read that. I only picked up Victor Hugo's books much much later, in my late thirties, when i had the maturity to actually understand the undercurrents of social criticisms in it, and only then did I come to appreciate the immense talent of the man. I must say, my high school years left me with an intense distaste for the classics, which i only overcame years later, although to this days (I'm in my late 60's) I still can't read anything by Honoré de Balzac. Morality, teachers shouldn't force feed the classics to kids that don't have the emotional maturity to appreciate it."

3.92 avg rating — 3,577,023 ratings

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"A song of Ice and fire is an excellent Fatasy series, the only drw back is that we've been waiting for years for it's final tomes and there's no end in sight, and George RR Martin is now quite OLD. In all probability he will die before he finishes it (and, contrary to Robert Jordan, has explicitly said he wouldn't want another author to finish the saga in his stead if he would croak before he published the last one). Still, even with those reservations it's still one of my favorites fantasy books of all times. I'm only sad that it will probably never reach a conclusion)"

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4.04 avg rating — 336,314 ratings

"The first book I ever read in the original version, I was doing a year abroad in England at the time, and this was lying on the lounge or our shared house, I scooped it and i had to slave with and English/French dictionary to read it. Even though it's rather short it took me about a month. I still maintain today that's the best JRR Tolkien's book, laying the foundation for the many complex stories he wrote after."

4.11 avg rating — 238,980 ratings

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4.66 avg rating — 671,303 ratings

"I discovered Brandon Sanderson when he wrote the 14th novel of the Wheel of Time Cycle, at first I was wary, how could anyone replace Robert Jordan whose books I had been hounding for years already ? And as i read i realized that Sanderson had been brilliantly up to the challenge, so that got me curious and i stated reading the Mistborn, and other stories from him and loving each and everyone of them. The Stormlight Archive is by far his best work in my opinion, even though it's horrible to have to wait for each volume :)"

4.54 avg rating — 731,533 ratings

3.80 avg rating — 363,061 ratings

"There is fascination in the horror. This book delves deep and put you inside the mind of a sociopath unapologetically, I reread it 2 or 3 times and it's chilling, mind numbing and so satisfying when the "hero" gets caught a the end. I mean even though it's fiction, the feeling is so real that you can't help to think "take that you bastard" at the end. "

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4.19 avg rating — 593,898 ratings

"The Wheel of time cycle is probably the story I read the most, in part because the wait between books was so long i had to reread the whole story from the start each time one came out. When Robert Jordan died leaving it unfinished I was devastated, i had invested years of my life in it, happily Brendan Sanderson did complete the story in a very satisfying manner a couple years after Robert Jordan's passing, The wheel of time to this day remains in my view one or the greatest fantasy books ever."

4.06 avg rating — 280,137 ratings

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3.89 avg rating — 364,849 ratings

"I stumbled on that in a supermarket of all places to buy a book, and I was hooked at the first line "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel". This served as my introduction to cyberpunk novels, and to William Gibson in general whose works I've religiously followed ever since. I've been seldom disappointed by his novels, but this one was a brain explosion. "

4.10 avg rating — 221,114 ratings

4.23 avg rating — 75,804 ratings

"I literally stole that from my mother who thought i was too young to read it then. It's a very good story, although probably a little too romanticized."

3.99 avg rating — 119,577 ratings

3.99 avg rating — 422,572 ratings

"Humorous fantasy, none was ever better than Terry Pratchett at it. I read quite a bit of the Discworld series and was never disappointed"

3.94 avg rating — 168,707 ratings

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"I went to see a play, featuring Isabelle Huppert as the sole actress on stage and almost no decor. And so powerful was her interpretation that I could actually visualize each end every character in each era. I had not read the book at the time, so after that I had to, and i wasn't disappointed. It was eye opening."

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"The first book in the "Culture" series by Iain M. Banks. I absolutely loved how he painted this technological utopia and the ships names :). This one was actually very emotional, and ever after i picked up every book by Banks until his very untimely death."

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"Another high school mandated reading that I hated at the time and came to actually love when I picked it up years later"

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"First read in high school, and contrary to the other books on the program at the time, I liked it enough that I went hunting for other books by the author in my local library. Boris Vian was wonderfully irreverent and his anti-war philosophy was in perfect sync my my teen self. He became one of my favorite authors of these days."

4.31 avg rating — 8,386 ratings

"Sunstone is a great Graphic novel. I first stumbled upon it on DeviantArt where it was published piecemeal at the time, a few page after another. The story is so sweet you can't help to root for the characters, and the graphics are gorgeous."

4.17 avg rating — 69,120 ratings

"I read that in the store, at the time a was broke and could not afford many books, and the dark story and stupendous graphics did have me on the edge of my seat (that was back when you could actually read inside the Fnac Store in Les Halles and they actually had seats for readers, a practice they discontinued to my great dismay.)"

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