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Thought Provoking Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 350 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,532,400 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,610,125 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 232 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,505,795 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,871,627 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,455,513 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,939,253 ratings — published 1960
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 191 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,829,269 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,609,291 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,902,086 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,094,304 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,760,410 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,224,915 ratings — published 1954
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,276,764 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,575 ratings — published 1946
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,885,610 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,016,293 ratings — published 1999
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,519,057 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,507,571 ratings — published 1943
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,995,666 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,427,252 ratings — published 1942
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,019,128 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,906,551 ratings — published 1890
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 867,018 ratings — published 2005
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 817,210 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,038,146 ratings — published 2009
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 805,167 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,919,665 ratings — published 1818
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,216,126 ratings — published 1997
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,919,353 ratings — published 1951
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,753,284 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 872,447 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,034 ratings — published 2001
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,241,991 ratings — published 1963
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,492,684 ratings — published 1969
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,967,712 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,027,623 ratings — published 2007
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,222,813 ratings — published 1947
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,443 ratings — published 1956
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.08 — 518,908 ratings — published 1995
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,757,210 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,453,707 ratings — published 1915
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,670,749 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 — 1,605,310 ratings — published 2003
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 77 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,196,403 ratings — published 2009
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,062,407 ratings — published 2023
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,480,276 ratings — published 1985
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,097,517 ratings — published 1866
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,279,801 ratings — published 2004
The Screwtape Letters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.27 — 528,960 ratings — published 1942
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,861,189 ratings — published 1937
“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
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“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
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