Subversive


Tampa
1984
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Crash
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Lacuna
Story of the Eye
Breakfast of Champions
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
The Handmaid's Tale
Fight Club
The Hate U Give
The Wasp Factory
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Brave New World
The Carer by Scott  L. NelsonDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneRed Goliath by Oscar  OrtizA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Groundbreaking Books
103 books — 97 voters

The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessTrainspotting by Irvine WelshFight Club by Chuck PalahniukSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Best Genuinely Unusual Fiction
303 books — 157 voters
The Victory Perspective by E.J. KellettThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAstronomicon minorem - DMT, Cthulhu and You by Khurt KhaveCreatures of the Dark by Stella PurpleMiael by Grea Alexander
Sinister Literature
50 books — 30 voters


Jostein Gaarder
“ Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers. ...more ”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

Naomi Wolf
“ Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing ...more ”
― Naomi Wolf, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

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