I don't normally assign star ratings to classics, because my assumption is that if a work is still in print and selling long after the author's demise, it must be a five-star book. To many people anyway. But I've given Babbitt a five-star rating despite its "minor classic" status because I would like everyone to read it. Why? Because, despite being published in 1922, the book is so timely that it almost seems prophetic. Not in the dystopian way of 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, but in a " the more things change, the more they stay the same" sort of way. The technology is different. The slang is different – you'll laugh at the "near-swearing" –but the people and their "issues" are exactly the same as now. Wonderful book.