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Provocative Books
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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.87 — 964,160 ratings — published 1955
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.65 — 422,200 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,465,070 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,554,528 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,506,530 ratings — published 1969
Half His Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.28 — 135,471 ratings — published 2026
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,918,894 ratings — published 1963
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,623,757 ratings — published 1948
Rejection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.75 — 42,963 ratings — published 2024
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,348 ratings — published 1969
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.10 — 998,199 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.54 — 106,073 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,106,216 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,943,574 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.16 — 244,808 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,673 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.18 — 654,445 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.27 — 971,630 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.75 — 256,028 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,754 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 — 44,008 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,128 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 4.49 — 22,195 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,778,062 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,956,652 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 — 72,452 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,261,119 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,899,621 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,687,963 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 3.98 — 502,817 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,158 ratings — published 2003
Sisters in Yellow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,007 ratings — published 2023
Feuchtgebiete (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 2.88 — 12,244 ratings — published 2008
The Hunting Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.47 — 97,259 ratings — published 2021
Big Rick Energy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.41 — 184 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 — 461 ratings — published 1992
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,250 ratings — published 2007
The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.12 — 60 ratings — published 2025
Speak, Memory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,930 ratings — published 1966
Days in the Caucasus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,165 ratings — published 1945
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,505,670 ratings — published 2012
Woman Down (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.47 — 150,402 ratings — published 2026
Auletris: Erotica (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.74 — 306 ratings — published
Sex in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,194 ratings — published 1980
Delta of Venus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.60 — 26,695 ratings — published 1977
Little Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 14,236 ratings — published 1979
Monsignor Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,677 ratings — published 1982
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.68 — 347,066 ratings — published 2017
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 3.86 — 50,558 ratings — published 2024
“Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”
― Healology
― Healology
“Almost all hard cultures have some ritual focused on voluntary self-denial, such as Ramadan, Lent, or the Fast of the Firstborn. The question is, why? Why do cultures that practice something that makes membership less pleasant historically outcompete cultures that encourage people to indulge in whatever they want? This question becomes more pointed when we look at how common it is for pop cultures to emotionally reward people for succumbing to their base desires, as is seen in pop culture outputs like the Intuitive Eating Movement, which entails telling people they are being healthy by eating whatever they want whenever they want in an age in which we’re surrounded with an abundance of foods that are designed to be highly addictive. Movements telling people to indulge in their immediate desires have been around since the ancient Greeks. These movements resurface during every civilization’s brief golden age and only seem to be successful in the short run. While the pop cultures that produce them consistently die, stodgy hard cultures persist. Why?”
― 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
