Christopher Hitchens on The Great Gatsby
"[The author] found he'd taken on all the great American themes, from the original 'dream' itself to the corresponding loss of innocence."
Christopher Hitchens on 1984
"We were all expected to read Animal Farm and [this book], which had been placed on the syllabus as part of the curriculum of the Cold War."
Christopher Hitchens on The Bell Jar
"When I myself first read [this book], the phrase of hers that most arrested me was the one with which she described her father's hometown."
Christopher Hitchens on Animal Liberation
"The parts of [this famous book] that I find most impressive are the deadpan reprints of animal-experiment 'reports.'"
Christopher Hitchens on A Tale of Two Cities
"[The author] essentially recast his friend Thomas Carlyle’s pessimistic version of the French Revolution in fictional form in [this book]."
Christopher Hitchens on War and Peace
"At the age of twelve I had summoned the nerve to borrow from the headmaster, and to read [this book]."
Christopher Hitchens on The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Shortly after I arrived in New York, [this author] claimed to have diagnosed the same syndrome in [this book]."
Christopher Hitchens on Infidel
"Describes the escape of a young Somali woman from sexual chattelhood to a new life in Holland."
Christopher Hitchens on Wolf Hall
"A service to the history it depicts, and puts the author in the very first rank of historical novelists."
Christopher Hitchens on Hons and Rebels
"These pages describe the steady, determined evolution of une femme serieuse."
Christopher Hitchens on Kim
"[I] re-read it in one session, marveling again at how fine it is."
Christopher Hitchens on Pale Fire
"Instead of making you want to write, [makes] you wonder why you bother."
Christopher Hitchens on Animal Farm
"There is a timeless, even transcendent, quality to this little story."
Christopher Hitchens on All Quiet on the Western Front
"I became consumed with the subject [of World War I] and got hold of [this book]."
Christopher Hitchens on The Importance of Being Earnest
"One of the few faultless three-act plays ever written."
Christopher Hitchens on Crime and Punishment
"I couldn’t sleep for two nights after first reading [this book]."
Christopher Hitchens on Uncle Tom's Cabin
"Leaves an ineradicable 'scratch on the mind.'"
Christopher Hitchens on Middlemarch
"[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]."
Christopher Hitchens on In Search of Lost Time
"[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]."
Christopher Hitchens on Burr
"The best fictional re-creation of the period."
Christopher Hitchens on Homage to Catalonia
"I was fairly soon immersed in [this book]."
Christopher Hitchens on Collected Poems
Christopher Hitchens said this author is one of his favorite poets.
Christopher Hitchens on The Complete Poems
Christopher Hitchens said this author is one of his favorite poets.
Christopher Hitchens on For Whom the Bell Tolls
"Influenced me very greatly."
Christopher Hitchens on The Black Jacobins
"[The author's] monumental work."
Christopher Hitchens on Money
"The Great English Novel of the 1980s."
Christopher Hitchens on On the Beach
"[The author's] masterpiece."
Christopher Hitchens on Lincoln
"[The author's] finest novel."
Christopher Hitchens on The Grapes of Wrath
"[The author's] 1939 classic."
Christopher Hitchens on The Captive Mind
"I was very struck by the courtesy and grace of this famous polemic and by the way that [the author] combined firmness on his own part with an understanding of the position of others."
Christopher Hitchens on Hitler
"Since [Hitler's] suicide, no one has fully explained how a talentless crank was able to turn Europe into a charnel house. [This book] supplies a piece of the puzzle."
Christopher Hitchens on Shame
"[Anatomizes] the heap of madnesses and contradictions that went to make up the nightmarish state of Pakistan."
Christopher Hitchens on Doctor Zhivago
"[The author] was perhaps not such a fool when he wrote in [this book] that all conceptions are immaculate."
Christopher Hitchens on Brave New World
"In [this book], one can often detect strong hints of a vicarious approval of what is ostensibly being satirized."
Christopher Hitchens on Daughter of Fortune
"The 'subject' is assuredly family life, which is also the tempestuous subtext of much of [the author]'s nonfiction."
Christopher Hitchens on Parting the Waters
"A noble edifice of work about the United States in the era of Martin Luther King."
Christopher Hitchens on The End of Faith
"[The author is] one of the finest volunteers in this cause."
Christopher Hitchens on The Satanic Verses
"[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]."
Christopher Hitchens on Ulysses
"[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]."
Christopher Hitchens on The Cruel Sea
"[I read this book] about 50 times before I was 15."
Christopher Hitchens on The Oxford Shakespeare
Christopher Hitchens mentioned Shakespeare's work in the "Hitch-22" book.
Christopher Hitchens on Voltaire's Bastards
"[The author's] critique of impure reason."
Christopher Hitchens on The Plague
"[The author's] imperishable novel."
Christopher Hitchens on Watership Down
"[The author's] masterpiece."
Christopher Hitchens on The God of Small Things
"Exquisite."
Christopher Hitchens on One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Epic."
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