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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.87 — 955,960 ratings — published 1955
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,542,225 ratings — published 2003
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,189 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,332 ratings — published 1988
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,927,605 ratings — published 1951
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,344 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,555,397 ratings — published 1948
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.00 — 777,086 ratings — published 1962
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 213,700 ratings — published 2016
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,021,653 ratings — published 1999
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,028,556 ratings — published 2007
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,244,501 ratings — published 1964
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 284,712 ratings — published 2006
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 368,227 ratings — published 1991
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,885,413 ratings — published 2011
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,465,994 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,628,991 ratings — published 1945
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian Vision—Essential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.18 — 43,787 ratings — published 1925
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,099,914 ratings — published 1932
I Hate My Bow! (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 2.41 — 316 ratings — published 1996
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.33 — 60,000 ratings — published 2013
Love You Forever (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.38 — 248,532 ratings — published 1986
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,957,198 ratings — published 1960
Battersea Parker (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,548 ratings — published
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 54,337 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,883,009 ratings — published 1953
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.10 — 434,397 ratings — published 2020
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,711 ratings — published 1848
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,233,248 ratings — published 1954
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.37 — 698,916 ratings — published 2020
Battersea Parker 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,408 ratings — published
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,463 ratings — published 2017
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,281,127 ratings — published 2004
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.50 — 139,287 ratings — published 1928
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.73 — 293,467 ratings — published 1971
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,869,677 ratings — published 1937
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.35 — 371,890 ratings — published 1971
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,069 ratings — published 1995
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.13 — 307,446 ratings — published 1970
Walter the Farting Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,860 ratings — published 2001
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,815,985 ratings — published 2012
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 257,384 ratings — published 1970
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.05 — 635,151 ratings — published 1999
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.06 — 594,322 ratings — published 1977
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,495,834 ratings — published 1969
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,570 ratings — published 1934
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,687,408 ratings — published 2016
Time to Pee! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,565 ratings — published
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,023,066 ratings — published 2008
“If our methods are so bad,' asked Dr Weinburger harshly, 'then why do any of our patients improve at all?'
'Because we've encouraged them to play new roles,' Dr Rhinehart answered promptly. 'Primarily the role of "being honest", but also the roles of feeling guilty, having sinned, being oppressed, discovering insights, being sexually liberated and so on. Of course, the patient and therapist are under the illusion that they are getting at true desires, when in fact they are only releasing and developing new and different selves.”
― The Dice Man
'Because we've encouraged them to play new roles,' Dr Rhinehart answered promptly. 'Primarily the role of "being honest", but also the roles of feeling guilty, having sinned, being oppressed, discovering insights, being sexually liberated and so on. Of course, the patient and therapist are under the illusion that they are getting at true desires, when in fact they are only releasing and developing new and different selves.”
― The Dice Man
“Meetings are power struggles between those who want something and those who don’t want to give it to them. If you’re walking into a meeting and you need something, your first job is to identify this person. This person is the reason the meeting is happening, and if you don’t know who they are, you’re missing essential subtext. It’s actually pretty easy. Just wait for someone to say something controversial and see who everyone looks at.”
― Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
― Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
