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62 voters
Provocative Books
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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.87 — 970,950 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 438,214 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,492,125 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,581,377 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,516,784 ratings — published 1969
Half His Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.24 — 164,967 ratings — published 2026
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,952,315 ratings — published 1963
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,688,899 ratings — published 1948
Rejection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.74 — 48,190 ratings — published 2024
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.77 — 456,561 ratings — published 2017
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.54 — 152 ratings — published
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,426 ratings — published 1969
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,001,503 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.54 — 108,695 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,136,241 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,971,070 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.16 — 251,753 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,888 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 659,507 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.27 — 989,866 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.75 — 257,863 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,838 ratings — published 2005
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,367 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,316 ratings — published 1981
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,369 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,797,044 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,982,889 ratings — published 1951
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,954 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,288,191 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,913,511 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,751,206 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.99 — 508,542 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 221,247 ratings — published 2003
Heavenly Bodies (Heavenly Bodies, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.95 — 64,301 ratings — published 2022
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.29 — 936,049 ratings — published 2023
Mister Tonight (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,513 ratings — published 2018
The Room Mate (Roommates, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,662 ratings — published 2017
Wild for You (Hot Jocks, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,733 ratings — published 2020
Hitched: Volume One (Imperfect Love, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.57 — 17,853 ratings — published 2016
The Rom-Com Cookbook: Romantic-Comedy-Inspired Recipes that Will Make Them Say "I'll Have What She's Having" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.61 — 23 ratings — published
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,512 ratings — published 2020
Sisters in Yellow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,742 ratings — published 2023
Feuchtgebiete (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 2.88 — 12,331 ratings — published 2008
The Hunting Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.47 — 100,558 ratings — published 2021
Big Rick Energy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.38 — 304 ratings — published
The Intellectuals and The Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880 - 1939 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.88 — 467 ratings — published 1992
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,771 ratings — published 2007
The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.99 — 79 ratings — published 2025
Speak, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,039 ratings — published 1966
Days in the Caucasus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,195 ratings — published 1945
“To hell with good intentions…You will not
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“The Term 'Conspiracy Theory' is nothing more than a provocative Catchword, which every unknowing Fool can throw against a critical Thinker's Head, just to desperately try to humiliate him.”
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