78 books
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57 voters
Mind Bending Books
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Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.13 — 723,114 ratings — published 2016
Recursion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.17 — 316,824 ratings — published 2019
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.09 — 200,696 ratings — published 2000
Ubik (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.11 — 123,010 ratings — published 1969
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.80 — 303,743 ratings — published 2014
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.78 — 482,044 ratings — published 2018
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,262,922 ratings — published 2019
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.25 — 125,583 ratings — published 2002
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 298,018 ratings — published 1992
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.12 — 549,031 ratings — published 2002
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 112,115 ratings — published 1979
There Is No Antimemetics Division (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,419 ratings — published 2020
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.62 — 255,218 ratings — published 2024
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,999 ratings — published 1994
Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.40 — 79,252 ratings — published 1944
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.55 — 106,317 ratings — published 2014
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.59 — 235,639 ratings — published 1962
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,099,131 ratings — published 2011
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.25 — 101,547 ratings — published 1996
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,430,232 ratings — published 1915
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,938 ratings — published 2004
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.95 — 340,032 ratings — published 2009
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 — 378,674 ratings — published 1971
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.14 — 225,943 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484,218 ratings — published 1969
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.09 — 513,119 ratings — published 1968
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,462,028 ratings — published 2020
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,201 ratings — published 1997
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.16 — 62,968 ratings — published 2011
Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.92 — 183,884 ratings — published 2012
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,449,846 ratings — published 2012
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.01 — 43,620 ratings — published 1965
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.11 — 152,631 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,468,371 ratings — published 1949
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.17 — 75,606 ratings — published 2008
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.94 — 395,787 ratings — published 1925
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,576 ratings — published 1979
Wind (The Tor’oc Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.47 — 17 ratings — published
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.08 — 494,443 ratings — published 2006
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.77 — 399,283 ratings — published 2017
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.05 — 296,826 ratings — published 2022
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.21 — 471,563 ratings — published 2020
The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,841 ratings — published 2015
Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.27 — 112,958 ratings — published 2019
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,542 ratings — published 2018
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Audiobook)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,807 ratings — published 2017
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.51 — 202,364 ratings — published 2016
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.67 — 80,578 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 3.85 — 855,344 ratings — published 2005
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mind-bending)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,017,175 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












