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"My favorite for his terrifying insight into the mind."

3.94 avg rating — 329,880 ratings

"Actually and truly beautiful. Literature should always have such a brilliant and powerful glow to it."

4.16 avg rating — 28,712 ratings

"Also stunningly beautiful. This book has such a quiet understated power to it."

4.13 avg rating — 83,283 ratings

"Shocking and in many ways horrifying, yet a very wise and powerful novel. A book I read feverishly and which has haunted me ever since. Her characters are marvelous."

3.99 avg rating — 896,358 ratings

"So funny and sick and twisted. Endlessly hilarious."

4.06 avg rating — 120,052 ratings

"This is my one indulgence in my top ten. And I always cry at the end."

4.10 avg rating — 1,506,385 ratings

"So half the time I was so weirded out I didn't know what to think, but somehow it has stuck with me. I love his other books as well, but this one is more, well, bizarre."

4.16 avg rating — 663,549 ratings

"I am so glad my ancestors left Ireland. I jest, but only slightly. This is such a lovely book, the prose is so... lyrical almost. I actually might love this book."

3.44 avg rating — 931,993 ratings

"This is so good, so frightening and so honest. It is not a cheerful read, but I really enjoyed it."

4.30 avg rating — 333,041 ratings

"Isabel Allende is amazing."

3.95 avg rating — 17,254 ratings

"Gail Tsukiyama is also amazing."

3.69 avg rating — 409,813 ratings

"Her philosophy is a bit extreme, but one cannot fault her writing. The story is very good. I skip the epic speech at the end."

4.12 avg rating — 531,022 ratings

"War is bad. Everyone should read this book. Everyone."

3.43 avg rating — 567,700 ratings

"I actually thought I hated this book, but I am still haunted by it. It is surprisingly short and spare, yet somehow that makes it more terrible to remember."

4.09 avg rating — 510,560 ratings

"Enjoyable, too many plants, altogether good."

3.94 avg rating — 1,771,504 ratings

"I love this incredibly cool book."

3.91 avg rating — 241,089 ratings

"Possibly my favorite Shakespeare. The scene when he runs out into the storm...amazing. Also ties into lots of literature, and is very demonstrative of medieval natural philosophy, amoung other things."

4.03 avg rating — 1,511,518 ratings

"I just read this and it is messed up! Oh, and seriously really freaky. Totally way creepier than I thought it would. With his creepy graveyard earth and his evil red eyes and his ability to turn into mist. There is more, but people should just read it."

3.92 avg rating — 1,954,688 ratings

"This is so, so, so much better than all the weird stuff that has spawned from it. Not only is it a capstone piece of romantic literature, it is also a facinating look at human nature. And it is also pretty cool. I mean, the monster reads these crazy things and anyway, it is very interesting."

3.91 avg rating — 1,489,310 ratings

"This is such a short, miserable, depressing book. Oh, and it is very, very good."

4.10 avg rating — 350,965 ratings

"Not particularly great literature, but it is fun."

4.11 avg rating — 117,882 ratings

"If anyone has not been introduced to the most quintessential of American poets, they should be. Walt Whitman writes with the very force of life."

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