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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,660,294 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,720,665 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 243 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,596,339 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,937,838 ratings — published 1963
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,515,126 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,042,540 ratings — published 1960
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,870,648 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,689,849 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,946,129 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,127,167 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,828,579 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,276,767 ratings — published 1954
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,305,498 ratings — published 2011
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,046,149 ratings — published 1999
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 120 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,155,200 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 918,180 ratings — published 1946
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,559,138 ratings — published 1943
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,569,543 ratings — published 2003
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,935,041 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,033,426 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,958,464 ratings — published 1890
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,481,334 ratings — published 1942
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 110 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 837,752 ratings — published 2016
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 826,380 ratings — published 1966
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 893,482 ratings — published 2005
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,245,709 ratings — published 1997
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,069,883 ratings — published 2009
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,967,724 ratings — published 1818
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.05 — 622,136 ratings — published 1995
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,971,408 ratings — published 1951
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,788,344 ratings — published 2007
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 882,673 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,776,002 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,512,208 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,281,618 ratings — published 1963
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 537,057 ratings — published 2020
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,283,350 ratings — published 1947
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,066,209 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,510 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,391,472 ratings — published 1956
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,774,069 ratings — published 2005
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,123,344 ratings — published 2023
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,507,266 ratings — published 1915
The Pythagorean (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,525 ratings — published
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,274,239 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,763,661 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 — 1,621,454 ratings — published 2003
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,493,953 ratings — published 1985
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,286,715 ratings — published 2004
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 780,334 ratings — published 2016
“Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“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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