4.22 avg rating — 1,392,664 ratings

"highly recommend to mythology geeks who like feminist retellings of stories they read in their youth (also fuck you Odysseus)"

3.93 avg rating — 391,049 ratings

"recommend to everybody with the emotional bandwidth for a tragedy about institutionalized racism and the slow decay of a long-distance relationship, it’s great"

3.71 avg rating — 61,147 ratings

"recommend to people who like self-consciously “meta” books about writers and writing/publishing/criticism/etc - also digs in hard to questions about what you do when someone you personally liked and learned a lot from is actually a pretty shitty sexist dude?? also it’s a Dog Book, With Dog"

3.43 avg rating — 3,744 ratings

"recommend to anybody who likes vaguely-sketched dystopias and road trip novels, it’s a good one of those! don’t skip the foreward that contextualizes the story - basically this is the author’s attempt to adequately portray his relationship with his brother, who had Down’s Syndrome"

3.55 avg rating — 21,167 ratings

"recommend to anybody who likes historical fiction with surreal/magical elements and can forgive some new author problems like a sorta meh ending and being beaten over the head with character descriptions"

3.66 avg rating — 25,270 ratings

"recommend to anybody not sick of feminist reproductive dystopia type novels in the wake of The Handmaid’s Tale; there’s a great “witches are just women who know herbs and want to be left the fuck alone” subplot"

3.78 avg rating — 25,159 ratings

"medium recommend to anybody who likes puns and is down to be REALLY FRUSTRATED WITH A MAN for a while. the fact that the narrative is lampooning him makes him no less frustrating."

3.67 avg rating — 82,368 ratings

3.21 avg rating — 4,958 ratings