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Thought Provoking Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,605,620 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,671,565 ratings — published 1945
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 239 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,555,010 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,909,425 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,488,825 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,996,257 ratings — published 1960
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 192 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,852,328 ratings — published 1993
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,656,090 ratings — published 1988
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,927,265 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,113,010 ratings — published 1932
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,797,821 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,252,722 ratings — published 1954
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,380 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,941 ratings — published 1946
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 118 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,085,174 ratings — published 2008
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,913,539 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,033,081 ratings — published 1999
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,547,267 ratings — published 2003
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,537,287 ratings — published 1943
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,027,060 ratings — published 2017
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,936,340 ratings — published 1890
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,457,045 ratings — published 1942
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 108 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.41 — 829,030 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.85 — 882,120 ratings — published 2005
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,055,283 ratings — published 2009
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.24 — 817,461 ratings — published 1966
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,233,057 ratings — published 1997
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,948,503 ratings — published 1818
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,773,205 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,949,540 ratings — published 1951
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,321 ratings — published 2008
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,769,456 ratings — published 2001
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.06 — 580,657 ratings — published 1995
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,585 ratings — published 1969
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,264,638 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,022,127 ratings — published 1925
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.21 — 518,089 ratings — published 2020
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,256,707 ratings — published 1947
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,838 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,894 ratings — published 1956
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,766,529 ratings — published 2005
The Pythagorean (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.32 — 7,497 ratings — published
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,482,590 ratings — published 1915
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 79 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,240,832 ratings — published 2009
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,097,397 ratings — published 2023
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,722,369 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 — 1,614,629 ratings — published 2003
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,488,090 ratings — published 1985
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,283,794 ratings — published 2004
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as thought-provoking)
avg rating 4.27 — 536,338 ratings — published 1942
“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
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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