For me this was pretty meh but I can see kids loving this book. Planning on watching the movie adaptation with my kids soon but wanted to preview the book.

I do love a time travel book. I think I would have enjoyed this a lot more if I hadn't read so many other books that derive from it.

This was so hackneyed it felt like parody. Yikes.

Deeply moving story about a Dutch family who helped and housed Jewish people during the Holocaust. I had never heard about this book before, despite it being 50 years old at this point. Glad I checked it out.

How can a book so short be so dull.

This is so utterly depressing. Recommended reading. Goes into the history of the island itself, the establishment of the camp, prison, as well as employees and prisoners throughout the years.

This took me three months to read and I swear to the entire Greek pantheon I never want to see the word profligate again.

What a groundbreaking book this was. Published before Brave New World and before 1984. So many books borrow from the themes here. I'd love to read a biography of Zamyatin one day.

Great coming of age memoir about rocket building in the mid 50s. I haven’t seen the movie, but I want to now.

Thoreau seems like he would have been an incredibly tedious human being to interact with.