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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.87 — 946,308 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 382,872 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,403,590 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,495,847 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484,181 ratings — published 1969
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 287,681 ratings — published 2015
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,468,133 ratings — published 1949
Rejection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.78 — 31,558 ratings — published 2024
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,209 ratings — published 1969
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 991,114 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.54 — 99,961 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,032,627 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,881,370 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.17 — 229,612 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,083 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 643,472 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.28 — 928,949 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.75 — 252,298 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Imitation Leather)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,524 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 — 43,059 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,645 ratings — published 1981
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.50 — 21,758 ratings — published 2015
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,896,391 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 — 71,421 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,202,845 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,867,180 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,557,145 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,921 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,113 ratings — published 2003
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 326,657 ratings — published 2017
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,571 ratings — published 2024
Limonov (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.12 — 16,021 ratings — published 2011
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.99 — 887,132 ratings — published 1961
Hotel Iris (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.33 — 8,305 ratings — published 1996
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.14 — 471,795 ratings — published 2022
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 77,949 ratings — published 1981
The Long Game (Game Changers, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.52 — 114,854 ratings — published 2022
Tough Guy (Game Changers, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.64 — 47,709 ratings — published 2020
Game Changer (Game Changers, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.82 — 101,610 ratings — published 2018
Role Model (Game Changers, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,581 ratings — published 2021
Merry Christmas, Scott & Kip (Game Changers, #1.5)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,376 ratings — published 2018
Common Goal (Game Changers, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 38,960 ratings — published 2020
Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.32 — 212,214 ratings — published 2019
The Well-Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,273 ratings — published 1892
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,054 ratings — published 1934
The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.85 — 27 ratings — published 1913
The Husband Stitch (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,865 ratings — published 2014
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,728 ratings — published 2020
The Member of the Wedding (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,351 ratings — published 1946
“A culture can be thought of as ever-evolving software that sits on top of—and synergistically interacts with—both biological hardware and firmware, addressing flaws our biology hasn’t had sufficient evolutionary time to address. To go further with this analogy: Biological evolution provides some basic coding, much like a low-level programming language might for a given hardware, whereas cultural evolution manipulates the high-level, object-oriented code that lets us program highly nuanced behaviors.”
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
“When a person gets severe radiation poisoning, some time passes before they feel the adverse effects. Their DNA has functionally been scrambled; their cells can’t divide; the person is dead—they just don’t know it yet. Many wildly popular cultural movements are currently in this state. It may be easier to coax a caged panda to reproduce than it would be to convince a cosmopolitan progressive to raise their own kid. ”
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
― The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance: From high school cliques to boards, family offices, and nations: A guide to optimizing governance models
