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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,119 ratings — published 1955
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,568,395 ratings — published 2003
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,304 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.71 — 73,112 ratings — published 1988
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,979,394 ratings — published 1951
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,747 ratings — published 2010
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,680,258 ratings — published 1948
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.00 — 786,927 ratings — published 1962
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,051,894 ratings — published 1999
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 217,716 ratings — published 2016
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,034,409 ratings — published 2007
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,257,176 ratings — published 1964
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 286,963 ratings — published 2006
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 376,618 ratings — published 1991
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,911,727 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,743,733 ratings — published 1945
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,524,509 ratings — published 1985
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.33 — 62,056 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,132,314 ratings — published 1932
I Hate My Bow! (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 2.42 — 315 ratings — published 1996
Mein Kampf (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.18 — 44,332 ratings — published 1925
Love You Forever (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.38 — 249,868 ratings — published 1986
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,059,617 ratings — published 1960
Battersea Parker (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.53 — 7,640 ratings — published
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.09 — 445,758 ratings — published 2020
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 54,588 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,948,009 ratings — published 1963
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.69 — 206,592 ratings — published 1848
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.50 — 141,132 ratings — published 1928
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,284,768 ratings — published 1954
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.36 — 715,734 ratings — published 2020
Battersea Parker 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,426 ratings — published
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,035,573 ratings — published 2017
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,287,820 ratings — published 2004
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,918,271 ratings — published 1937
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,461 ratings — published 1934
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.35 — 375,221 ratings — published 1971
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,021 ratings — published 1970
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.05 — 640,833 ratings — published 1999
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.73 — 295,536 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 — 82,387 ratings — published 1995
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.86 — 244,448 ratings — published 1979
Walter the Farting Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,887 ratings — published 2001
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,835,263 ratings — published 2012
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 259,696 ratings — published 1970
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,223 ratings — published 1959
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.06 — 600,443 ratings — published 1977
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,515,432 ratings — published 1969
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,778,513 ratings — published 2016
“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
