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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 345 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,460,605 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,550,944 ratings — published 1945
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 229 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,836,795 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,422,705 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,885,070 ratings — published 1960
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 215 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,456,535 ratings — published 2020
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 189 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,807,783 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,569,012 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 174 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,878,739 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,076,950 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,723,607 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,200,222 ratings — published 1954
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 877,449 ratings — published 1946
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,859,743 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,261,229 ratings — published 2011
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,001,023 ratings — published 1999
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,909,504 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,400,772 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,493,045 ratings — published 2003
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,011,405 ratings — published 2017
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,477,650 ratings — published 1943
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,878,459 ratings — published 1890
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 854,066 ratings — published 2005
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 806,491 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,020,979 ratings — published 2009
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 794,686 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,888,056 ratings — published 1818
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,200,771 ratings — published 1997
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,735,235 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 866,734 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,753,620 ratings — published 2001
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,893,513 ratings — published 1951
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,483,141 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,221,042 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,916,064 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,024,954 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,363,853 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,192,309 ratings — published 1947
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,748,565 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,427,286 ratings — published 1915
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,597,338 ratings — published 2003
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,154,110 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 76 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,613,815 ratings — published 2016
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.27 — 521,951 ratings — published 1942
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,473,593 ratings — published 1985
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,029,022 ratings — published 2023
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,835,700 ratings — published 1937
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,275,682 ratings — published 2004
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,080,197 ratings — published 1866
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.01 — 803,426 ratings — published 2003
“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
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“That noise you are hearing, drowning out
the blows of life, is the wind touching the fronds of the thirty or so eighty-foot-tall palm trees encircling the centrally located swimming pool. You have fun thinking this sound might be the Holy Spirit.”
― Digging for God
― Digging for God
