192 books
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Mind Bending Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,073
The Pythagorean (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,546 ratings — published
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.13 — 741,830 ratings — published 2016
Recursion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.16 — 324,796 ratings — published 2019
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.09 — 203,236 ratings — published 2000
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 269,714 ratings — published 2004
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.80 — 309,604 ratings — published 2014
The Ministry of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.57 — 234,896 ratings — published 2024
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.11 — 124,266 ratings — published 1969
The Other Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,460 ratings — published 2024
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.78 — 488,568 ratings — published 2018
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,507,017 ratings — published 2020
The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,630 ratings — published 2020
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.05 — 301,395 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.21 — 493,543 ratings — published 2020
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,344,136 ratings — published 2019
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.97 — 284,601 ratings — published 1991
The Book of Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.03 — 102,736 ratings — published 2024
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.11 — 25,891 ratings — published 2020
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.25 — 126,969 ratings — published 2002
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.12 — 554,388 ratings — published 2002
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 299,123 ratings — published 1992
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 113,180 ratings — published 1979
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.61 — 272,381 ratings — published 2024
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.79 — 242,832 ratings — published 2013
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,212 ratings — published 1994
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.40 — 80,150 ratings — published 1944
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.55 — 107,981 ratings — published 2014
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.59 — 237,314 ratings — published 1962
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,107,130 ratings — published 2011
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,329 ratings — published 1996
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,454,388 ratings — published 1915
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.95 — 341,795 ratings — published 2009
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,534,209 ratings — published 1948
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.06 — 380,926 ratings — published 1971
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.14 — 229,061 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,492,947 ratings — published 1969
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 171,401 ratings — published 2019
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.65 — 712,095 ratings — published 2015
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.09 — 517,729 ratings — published 1968
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,381 ratings — published 1997
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.15 — 69,418 ratings — published 2011
Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.92 — 188,465 ratings — published 2012
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,472,522 ratings — published 2012
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,094,733 ratings — published 1932
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 44,056 ratings — published 1965
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.11 — 153,742 ratings — published 1985
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.17 — 75,922 ratings — published 2008
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.94 — 401,286 ratings — published 1925
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,811 ratings — published 1979
“There’s a difference between being alone and being unguarded. One’s a curse. The other’s a weapon.”
― The Mostly True Tale of Getting Roofied in Tokyo and Waking Up Married in Rural Thailand
― The Mostly True Tale of Getting Roofied in Tokyo and Waking Up Married in Rural Thailand
“You already know," the voice said with cold certainty.
"You freed it. Now you must face the
consequences.”
― Precept: Frequency
"You freed it. Now you must face the
consequences.”
― Precept: Frequency













