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- Amazon's customer reviews are one of the features that make the site so valuable.
- This is particularly true of books - reviews let you save money, space, and time by getting the gist of how good they are upfront.
- Below, you'll find the top 20 customer-reviewed books of all time on Amazon.
Customer reviews are one of Amazon's most valuable features. Before ever actually paying for a product - be it a $300 RoboVac or a $13 all-natural cleaner - we have access to sometimes thousands of reviews telling us how something will perform once we're holding that something in our hands.
Like other customer-review platforms such as Yelp and Goodreads, the best thing about them is that they help us maximize limited time. Instead of thousands of us relearning the same lesson, we share our knowledge to steer people to the best choice the first time around: "These shoes run small, order a half size up."
The same advantage applies to books. Why give $10 to a book you won't finish reading? Or, worse, devote 15 hours of your life to a book that left thousands dissatisfied with a nonsensical cliffhanger? Not every review will interpret a creative tome the same way you would have, but that's why a high volume of reviews is useful.
Below, you'll find the 20 most-reviewed books of all time on Amazon. Of all the books the site stocks, these are the ones that provoked the most people to sit down and write a review for the benefit of future would-be readers.
The 20 most customer-reviewed books of all time on Amazon:
Captions provided by Amazon and edited lightly for length.
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