Reviews - The Grapes of Wrath

5.36k reviews for:

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

3.78 AVERAGE

melodypage's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

An essential read for 2025. Brilliant. Listen to the penguine classics recording on your commute. It is all about organized labor and the agricultural industry in the 1930s, but it transcends its time and space brilliantly. Mostly because so much has not changed across many large industries.

Also, if you have any maga relatives, recommend to them this book. Again, the recording is great.

aaronsteve's review against another edition

5.0

"No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me."

Quite possibly the Greatest American Novel.

mjs73's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Content Warnings

daisygir1's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

bent_z's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

el_elia's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

medinopoli's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

darthelmo's review against another edition

5.0

Mind blowing tale that's worryingly relevant today.

amberevans7575's review against another edition

5.0

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sjgbassett's review against another edition

4.0

Slow read due to heavy dialect, but about halfway through you realize you are reading an important history lesson and getting a hard reality of the Dust Bowl Migration. I’m sad to read that my California treated migrants so poorly and had no empathy.

The end is just a killer. Wow. Glad I read it. What a journey it took me on!

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