303 books
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157 voters
Subversive Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,601,407 ratings — published 1948
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.33 — 60,668 ratings — published 2013
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.59 — 588,836 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 33,001 ratings — published 1973
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.09 — 269,818 ratings — published 1980
The Lacuna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.83 — 75,432 ratings — published 2009
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,083 ratings — published 1928
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,899 ratings — published 1973
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,285 ratings — published 1971
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,486,873 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.18 — 652,870 ratings — published 1996
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,026,601 ratings — published 2017
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 112,669 ratings — published 1984
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,930 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,112,098 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,851,001 ratings — published 1993
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,668,047 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,502,939 ratings — published 1969
Dream Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 22,396 ratings — published 1926
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,250,958 ratings — published 1954
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 44,092 ratings — published 2024
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,576 ratings — published 1968
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.13 — 59,400 ratings — published 2020
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,627 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.29 — 113,664 ratings — published 2017
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.39 — 380,523 ratings — published 1986
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.77 — 432,687 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 416,601 ratings — published 2007
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.68 — 20,805 ratings — published 1994
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.53 — 36,088 ratings — published 1978
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.45 — 348,863 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 824,388 ratings — published 2016
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,723 ratings — published 1981
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.69 — 33,941 ratings — published 2018
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 255,406 ratings — published 2016
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.80 — 107,873 ratings — published 2017
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,089 ratings — published 1955
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,428 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,255 ratings — published 2016
Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,176 ratings — published 1997
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.50 — 139,981 ratings — published 1928
Little Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,419 ratings — published 2016
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.41 — 59,159 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,091 ratings — published 1988
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.97 — 75,731 ratings — published 1995
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,320 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,534 ratings — published 1955
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 34,981 ratings — published 1796
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,805 ratings — published 1980
“Shame comes in different doses.”
― From the Horse’s Mouth
― From the Horse’s Mouth
“Social change is a million individual acts of kindness; culture change is a million subversive acts of resistance.”
― Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
― Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls












