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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,722,519 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,770,850 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 248 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,644,943 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,969,296 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,543,289 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,092,217 ratings — published 1960
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,891,879 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,728,273 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 174 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,966,276 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,143,183 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,862,626 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,300,845 ratings — published 1954
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,693 ratings — published 2011
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,063,322 ratings — published 1999
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 930,378 ratings — published 1946
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,231,601 ratings — published 2008
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,958,622 ratings — published 2018
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,594,811 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,587,996 ratings — published 1943
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,985,302 ratings — published 1890
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,801 ratings — published 2017
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.25 — 836,553 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,509,988 ratings — published 1942
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 110 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 847,393 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 905,839 ratings — published 2005
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,262,632 ratings — published 1997
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,086,607 ratings — published 2009
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,988,930 ratings — published 1818
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.04 — 671,745 ratings — published 1995
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,807,172 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,996,343 ratings — published 1951
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 887,462 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,783,345 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,521,679 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,301,603 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,113,465 ratings — published 1925
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 560,152 ratings — published 2020
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,312,761 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,595 ratings — published 1956
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,036,094 ratings — published 2007
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,782,003 ratings — published 2005
Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,422 ratings — published
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,150,389 ratings — published 2023
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,534,077 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,310,554 ratings — published 2009
The Pythagorean (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,487 ratings — published
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,807,742 ratings — published 2016
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,629,051 ratings — published 2003
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 798,266 ratings — published 2016
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.02 — 831,102 ratings — published 2003
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“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
