This is my favorite book of all time and John Irving is my favorite author of all time. I love his wit and the unpredictability of his stories.

The characters in this story, years after I read it, are still so real to me, like old friends. And the story, though achingly painful to read, was so “true” it didn’t feel like fiction.

This is a book that I can open to any page at any time and be completely drawn into the story, my acid test for a great book.

A flawless work of fiction. My only gripe with Ann-Marie MacDonald is that she’s only written three books.

This book launched the current red-hot memoir craze in publishing and is still, in my humble opinion, the gold standard to which all others should be held.

This is the first book I ever read that, when I finished it, I immediately flipped it over and started reading it again. It changed my life forever.

This is the second book I ever read that, when I finished it, I immediately flipped it over and started reading it again.