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Cerebral Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,606,156 ratings — published 1948
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,555,318 ratings — published 2020
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.08 — 514,098 ratings — published 2006
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,113,160 ratings — published 1932
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,599 ratings — published 2010
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,457,260 ratings — published 1942
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,073,247 ratings — published 1992
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.80 — 317,322 ratings — published 2014
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.11 — 560,702 ratings — published 2002
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.21 — 518,241 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,656,389 ratings — published 1988
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,364 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.37 — 904,017 ratings — published 1946
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,672,003 ratings — published 1945
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.06 — 581,020 ratings — published 1995
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,909,678 ratings — published 1953
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,852,456 ratings — published 1993
Recursion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.16 — 334,429 ratings — published 2019
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116,690 ratings — published 1866
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,482,792 ratings — published 1915
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.95 — 344,144 ratings — published 2009
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.09 — 523,309 ratings — published 1968
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.27 — 114,711 ratings — published 2019
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.13 — 764,016 ratings — published 2016
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,428,823 ratings — published 2019
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,489,050 ratings — published 1985
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,488,145 ratings — published 1985
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,403 ratings — published 1984
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.69 — 409,545 ratings — published 1957
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,264,798 ratings — published 1963
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,809 ratings — published 2004
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,769,511 ratings — published 2001
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,665,221 ratings — published 1965
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,425 ratings — published 1996
Stuck in Neutral (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,323 ratings — published 2000
Wind: Book 1 of The Tor’oc Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.31 — 26 ratings — published
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.45 — 349,516 ratings — published 2019
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,671 ratings — published 1991
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.55 — 110,178 ratings — published 2014
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.74 — 449,568 ratings — published 2021
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.90 — 422,077 ratings — published 1969
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.25 — 128,860 ratings — published 2002
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,492 ratings — published 2011
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.40 — 179,235 ratings — published 2010
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.56 — 133,351 ratings — published 2015
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,060,666 ratings — published 2013
Games People Play (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.71 — 42,015 ratings — published 1964
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,936,553 ratings — published 1890
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,327 ratings — published 2001
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cerebral)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,698 ratings — published 1988
“In the summer, when the days were hot and your writing was good at night, you knew you could find solace in the calm of a cloudless evening. Writing was not a hobby, but rather a personal need that you needed to have in order to feel whole.”
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“Besides, there was a strangely calming element of cosmic beauty in the hypnotic landscape through which we climbed and plunged fantastically. Time had lost itself in the labyrinths behind, and around us stretched only the flowering waves of faery and the recaptured loveliness of vanished centuries—the hoary groves, the untainted pastures edged with gay autumnal blossoms, and at vast intervals the small brown farmsteads nestling amidst huge trees beneath vertical precipices of fragrant brier and meadow-grass. Even the sunlight assumed a supernal glamour, as if some special atmosphere or exhalation mantled the whole region. I had seen nothing like it before save in the magic vistas that sometimes form the backgrounds of Italian primitives. Sodoma and Leonardo conceived such expanses, but only in the distance, and through the vaultings of Renaissance arcades. We were now burrowing bodily through the midst of the picture, and I seemed to find in its necromancy a thing I had innately known or inherited, and for which I had always been vainly searching.”
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