4.10 avg rating — 10,085 ratings

"A page-turning thriller that both describes and celebrates the obfuscations, oratorical mannerisms, and etiquette that are designed quite deliberately as speed bumps in the paths of the statist behemoth."

3.65 avg rating — 68 ratings

"Midcentury uses both fiction and history to show how Communists and organized crime corrupted labor unions, when they were at the peak of their power."

3.75 avg rating — 3,873 ratings

"Set at the end of the dispiriting 1960s in a New York City that has descended into moral anarchy, it chronicles America's cultural decadence."

4.32 avg rating — 2,237 ratings

"A profoundly conservative story about the importance of self-reliance in the face of overwhelming odds."

3.54 avg rating — 2,088 ratings

"Percy examined what happens to a society when it stops believing in the transcendent and relies instead on a medicalized view of the human person, whose ills can be cured through therapy and drugs."

3.92 avg rating — 87,014 ratings

"Wolfe despised arty, introspective fiction and sought to write a panoramic, large-scale, 19th-century-style novel that would realistically portray 20th-century life in all its rollicking glory and sordidness."

3.97 avg rating — 547 ratings

"[McCarry's] spy novels depict the unpleasant, even tragic, actions that are sometimes necessary to preserve [Western] ideals."

3.85 avg rating — 124,408 ratings

"A book of both humility and hope, aware of our limitations, but also of the goodness of creation."

3.79 avg rating — 4,069 ratings

"Freddy and Fredericka are a prince and princess of Wales who are banished to America, where they find their true selves."

4.17 avg rating — 246,445 ratings

"McCarthy's message is that evil walks the land, that fate rules the world, that God owes us nothing, and that His silence is unbroken."