127 books
—
41 voters
Profound Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,109
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as profound)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,489,755 ratings — published 1943
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as profound)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,585,672 ratings — published 1988
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as profound)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,889,670 ratings — published 1890
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as profound)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,907,519 ratings — published 1960
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as profound)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,888,413 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as profound)
avg rating 4.37 — 883,076 ratings — published 1946
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as profound)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,851,224 ratings — published 1953
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as profound)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,206,970 ratings — published 1997
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as profound)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,209,938 ratings — published 1954
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as profound)
avg rating 4.18 — 644,837 ratings — published 1996
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as profound)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,435,767 ratings — published 1985
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as profound)
avg rating 4.01 — 806,206 ratings — published 2003
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as profound)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,503,762 ratings — published 2003
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as profound)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,367,813 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as profound)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,204,188 ratings — published 1947
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as profound)
avg rating 4.08 — 880,346 ratings — published 1922
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as profound)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,574,929 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as profound)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,489,760 ratings — published 1948
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,039 ratings — published 2001
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,937,248 ratings — published 1925
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,411,097 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.44 — 643,425 ratings — published 1952
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,238,339 ratings — published 1964
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as profound)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,084,015 ratings — published 1932
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.28 — 934,691 ratings — published 2015
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.41 — 810,962 ratings — published 2016
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,900,955 ratings — published 1818
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,742,356 ratings — published 2007
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as profound)
avg rating 4.39 — 388,559 ratings — published 1880
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,480,755 ratings — published 2022
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.10 — 598,508 ratings — published 2007
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,197,870 ratings — published 2012
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,644,258 ratings — published 2018
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,087,228 ratings — published 1866
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.29 — 677,871 ratings — published 2012
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.28 — 351,700 ratings — published 180
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.37 — 459,154 ratings — published 1952
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.23 — 329,908 ratings — published 1923
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,816,762 ratings — published 1993
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,007,374 ratings — published 1999
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,027,784 ratings — published 1844
Veronika Decides to Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 3.74 — 243,288 ratings — published 1998
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 4.08 — 476,132 ratings — published 2012
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as profound)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,756,695 ratings — published 2001
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as profound)
avg rating 3.84 — 338,063 ratings — published 2019
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as profound)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,476,965 ratings — published 2020
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as profound)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,438,140 ratings — published 1915
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as profound)
avg rating 4.06 — 135,599 ratings — published 2013
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as profound)
avg rating 3.75 — 873,463 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as profound)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,870,193 ratings — published 2018
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy












