4.13 avg rating — 1,876,055 ratings

"Writing so good it took my breath away and made everything else I read seem dull for a while."

3.94 avg rating — 1,752,945 ratings

"Absorbing, heartbreaking and thought provoking."

3.91 avg rating — 1,885,412 ratings

"Beautiful writing, stirred up my sympathies."

3.80 avg rating — 873,537 ratings

"Wonderfully imaginative."

4.25 avg rating — 719,756 ratings

"I was so spooked. It started for me an obsession with Rebecca and Du Maurier reading as much of her work and her admirers' works."

4.28 avg rating — 751,846 ratings

"Re-read several times. I can't explain why. The characters feel like my old friends and yes I cry every single time."

3.91 avg rating — 305,081 ratings

"Wonderfully imaginative and unlike so much I have read besides. Aside from the fact we are mocking a sick old man and his not so intelligent sidekick it's a wonderful tale and the side stories are absorbing too."

4.45 avg rating — 2,732,679 ratings

"This got me into fantasy fiction. Combines magical lands with historical style battles with a few doses of shakespeare style tragedy. A believable fatalist saga."

4.09 avg rating — 728,859 ratings

"Chilling, well written, interesting narrative voice. Heart breaking ending and a real argument against the death penalty."

3.71 avg rating — 374,601 ratings

"Wonderful cliches and most vivid lives."

3.84 avg rating — 693,104 ratings

"Touching and thought provoking."

4.15 avg rating — 566,050 ratings

"Wish we'd had this when I was a kid"

4.01 avg rating — 165,990 ratings

"Started my love of victorian sensationalist fiction!"

3.84 avg rating — 222,172 ratings

"I love this as a text. I snore when it's performed but as a text it's just so much fun."

3.97 avg rating — 166,197 ratings

"Most amazing descriptions ever!"

3.84 avg rating — 75,990 ratings

"Because I feel I identify with Jude."

4.01 avg rating — 267,610 ratings

"Really really excellent unique work. Huge range of genres that are all connected."

4.13 avg rating — 119,200 ratings

"I could have this read to me over and over."

4.20 avg rating — 96,018 ratings

"So good I nick it off the kids."

3.87 avg rating — 114,997 ratings

"WOW. Began my love of Woolf. "

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,097,466 ratings

"Pretty oh so very very pretty."

4.06 avg rating — 73,568 ratings

"I love this. I feel like a fly on the wall. I love the sheer innapropriateness of it."

3.88 avg rating — 14,691 ratings

"Words fail me-stunning book well written love the message."

3.58 avg rating — 8,064 ratings

"Gut wrenching. A true journey. This should become a classic."

3.60 avg rating — 11,888 ratings

"My second favourite Shakespeare play. Stand in Queen Anne's bdchamber at Warwick castle and try not to shudder."

3.67 avg rating — 31,261 ratings

"My favourite Shakespeare play. Scandalous!"

3.95 avg rating — 7,319 ratings

"It's Wilkie collins, it's full of twists and has an Asylum and a mysterious woman-what more could I ask for"

4.01 avg rating — 69,151 ratings

"Almost (almost) as good as Rebecca-really had me wondering."

3.92 avg rating — 1,608 ratings

"I wish I could write like this woman"

4.32 avg rating — 22,632 ratings

"More very pretty words..."

4.20 avg rating — 43,033 ratings

"eek why did I choose this? Graphic, inhuman, dirty, claustrophobic. And so vivid it feels like a memory...a desperate starved frightened memory."

3.82 avg rating — 78,407 ratings

"Moving."

4.32 avg rating — 53,182 ratings

"No book has ver made me cry as much as this!"

3.86 avg rating — 33,701 ratings

"I just really really enjoyed this."

3.43 avg rating — 17,162 ratings

"Right up my street-the perfect novel! Mystery, desperation and daring escapes."

4.08 avg rating — 159,040 ratings

"The journey of a christian through an imagined moral landscape. I found it very helpful."