135 books
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34 voters
Intelligent Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,818
An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.82 — 635 ratings — published 2016
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,308 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,616,707 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,540,451 ratings — published 1948
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,909,813 ratings — published 1890
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,051,576 ratings — published 1992
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,276,263 ratings — published 2021
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,127 ratings — published 2003
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,814,009 ratings — published 2022
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,096,840 ratings — published 2020
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.08 — 504,217 ratings — published 2006
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.54 — 280,897 ratings — published 2020
Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.90 — 649,713 ratings — published 2022
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,940,978 ratings — published 2021
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,808,902 ratings — published 2019
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,091,918 ratings — published 2007
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.17 — 595,521 ratings — published 2011
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,755,513 ratings — published 2007
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,945,428 ratings — published 1960
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,161,430 ratings — published 1991
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,923,067 ratings — published 1818
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,973,647 ratings — published 1925
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,764,503 ratings — published 2012
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,181 ratings — published 1951
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,430,424 ratings — published 1942
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,333 ratings — published 1997
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.01 — 901,066 ratings — published 2005
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,065 ratings — published 1996
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,169 ratings — published 2024
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.22 — 425,839 ratings — published 2003
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,105,919 ratings — published 2024
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.83 — 346,867 ratings — published 2019
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,183 ratings — published 1994
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,665 ratings — published 2008
The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.21 — 220,775 ratings — published 2014
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.28 — 339,164 ratings — published 2015
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,005,321 ratings — published 2008
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,346,274 ratings — published 1847
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,164 ratings — published 1940
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.21 — 482,802 ratings — published 1988
Love, Theoretically (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.08 — 681,841 ratings — published 2023
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.14 — 489,568 ratings — published 2022
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,429,555 ratings — published 2016
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.40 — 175,651 ratings — published 2010
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,333,149 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,177,734 ratings — published 2017
The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.03 — 51,128 ratings — published 2019
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,226,516 ratings — published 1947
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 4.21 — 495,867 ratings — published 2020
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intelligent)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,511,413 ratings — published 2020
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
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“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.
Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?”
― Matilda
Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?”
― Matilda












