The weight of opinion is not sufficient to determine what is good, otherwise the greatest book would simply be the one that sold the most.

"It's the greatest book on handicapping ever written," Serling said.

The book of Job has been included in lists of the greatest books in world literature.

I would not say "greatest book ever" but I very much enjoyed reading it while sitting on the beach.

Stone said that the Bible was "the world's greatest self-help book".

It is widely seen as Moore's best work, and has been regularly described as the greatest comic book ever written.

It is "arguably the greatest book musical ever written," he said.

His "Areopagitica" is still the greatest book arguing for that principle.

Jeffrey Masson considers it, "one of the greatest books ever written for children".

The power of the greatest books is that, in effect, they know to whom they speak.