108 books
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94 voters
Subversive Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,652,645 ratings — published 1948
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.33 — 61,611 ratings — published 2013
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.59 — 598,647 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 33,610 ratings — published 1973
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.09 — 271,195 ratings — published 1980
The Lacuna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.83 — 75,780 ratings — published 2009
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,322 ratings — published 1928
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,025 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 — 385,219 ratings — published 1971
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,511,492 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.18 — 656,443 ratings — published 1996
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,032,498 ratings — published 2017
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 113,657 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 — 119,446 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,125,256 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,867,963 ratings — published 1993
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,713,850 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,510,934 ratings — published 1969
Dream Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 22,702 ratings — published 1926
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,273,498 ratings — published 1954
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 44,786 ratings — published 2024
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,953 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 — 60,575 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 — 82,135 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,353 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 — 382,426 ratings — published 1986
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.77 — 446,171 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 429,297 ratings — published 2007
Piercing: A Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,196 ratings — published 1994
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.53 — 36,318 ratings — published 1978
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.45 — 356,351 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 831,654 ratings — published 2016
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,822 ratings — published 1981
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.69 — 34,388 ratings — published 2018
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 256,849 ratings — published 2016
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.80 — 108,585 ratings — published 2017
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,378 ratings — published 1955
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,467 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,304 ratings — published 2016
Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,191 ratings — published 1997
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.50 — 140,724 ratings — published 1928
Little Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,421 ratings — published 2016
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.41 — 59,349 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,291 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 — 76,101 ratings — published 1995
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,807 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 967,152 ratings — published 1955
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,408 ratings — published 1796
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,845 ratings — published 1980
“if sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body - and with it your own voice - and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all”
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