3.91 avg rating — 237,268 ratings

"It's the language that moves me in this, not the characterisation. Many of the lines are burned into my brain."

4.17 avg rating — 57,530 ratings

"I felt constantly in awe the whole time I was reading this. It's just perfect – almost too perfect, a little creepy in its complete perfection."

4.21 avg rating — 2,675 ratings

"So brilliant, so multitudinous, so full of life. Changed the way I thought about long-form life writing and how it can sustain and develop an argument."

4.03 avg rating — 9,905 ratings

"There is a death in book 2 that moved me more than any other death in fiction. That scene, and the whole thing really, is exquisitely written and tonally unique."

4.09 avg rating — 518 ratings

"Baroque, brooding, brilliant."

3.97 avg rating — 25,329 ratings

"My first hit of Pynchon. For me he's America's best fiction writer, with an unusually global interest in the world."

4.11 avg rating — 383,376 ratings

"I missed my stop on the train and was late for work finishing this. Very imaginative and truthful and beautiful."

3.89 avg rating — 52,557 ratings

"Completely overhauled how I thought about religion. Dense and rich and full of delights."

4.13 avg rating — 24,128 ratings

"Another perfect writer. He has more style than almost anyone."

3.61 avg rating — 849 ratings

"Great? No. Changed my life? Well, almost. Certainly changed my idea of what a comic was. I read it an an impressionable age…"