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

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

4.16 avg rating — 28,340 ratings

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

4.14 avg rating — 82,070 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 — 887,700 ratings

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

4.07 avg rating — 119,018 ratings

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

4.10 avg rating — 1,485,652 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."

4.15 avg rating — 659,045 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 — 921,133 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 — 320,817 ratings

"Isabel Allende is amazing."

3.95 avg rating — 17,133 ratings

"Gail Tsukiyama is also amazing."

3.69 avg rating — 407,289 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."

4.11 avg rating — 521,013 ratings

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

3.43 avg rating — 559,380 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 — 506,169 ratings

"Enjoyable, too many plants, altogether good."

3.94 avg rating — 1,755,593 ratings

"I love this incredibly cool book."

3.91 avg rating — 237,747 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."

4.02 avg rating — 1,479,964 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."

3.91 avg rating — 1,896,427 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 — 1,434,195 ratings

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

4.10 avg rating — 347,199 ratings

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

4.11 avg rating — 116,787 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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