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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,780,607 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,823,151 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 250 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,688,785 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,999,409 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,568,248 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,134,924 ratings — published 1960
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,763,579 ratings — published 1988
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,908,828 ratings — published 1993
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,158,440 ratings — published 1932
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,984,188 ratings — published 2005
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,891,584 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,322,012 ratings — published 1954
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 942,034 ratings — published 1946
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,904 ratings — published 2011
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,980,899 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,298,225 ratings — published 2008
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,077,006 ratings — published 1999
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,614,317 ratings — published 1943
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,617,762 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,010,871 ratings — published 1890
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,045,049 ratings — published 2017
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 855,746 ratings — published 2016
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.25 — 846,955 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,534,169 ratings — published 1942
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 916,943 ratings — published 2005
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,102,217 ratings — published 2009
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,009,315 ratings — published 1818
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 717,428 ratings — published 1995
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,279,167 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,019,072 ratings — published 1951
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,824,036 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 892,090 ratings — published 2008
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 586,459 ratings — published 2020
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,320,607 ratings — published 1963
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,789,739 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,530,454 ratings — published 1969
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,153,825 ratings — published 1925
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,338,487 ratings — published 1947
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,788,910 ratings — published 2005
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,335 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,405,528 ratings — published 1956
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,175,557 ratings — published 2023
Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 5,359 ratings — published
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,567,371 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,343,495 ratings — published 2009
The Pythagorean (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,951 ratings — published
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,843,286 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 — 1,636,196 ratings — published 2003
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,159 ratings — published 2016
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.02 — 837,621 ratings — published 2003
“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...”
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“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
