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Books that really make you think, question, and/or reexamine life in various aspects...these are the books that stay with you long after you've read them, that drift into dreams, that you share with others, that you never forget.
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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1984
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Brave New World
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Lord of the Flies
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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The Kite Runner
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 791,709 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
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Sharon M. Draper (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 185,642 ratings
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Unwind (Unwind, #1)
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Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 246,902 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 613,769 ratings
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,175,098 ratings
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Les Misérables
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
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So B. It (So B. It, #1)
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 61,801 ratings
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Down to a Sunless Sea
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Foundation and Earth (Foundation #5)
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,770,873 ratings
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A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race
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Robert A. Wascher (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings
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My Name is Joe
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The Complex (Linx, # 1)
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C. Zaragoza (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Seeing the Unseen
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Please Don't Remove MarGreat's Glasses!
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Josh Baker (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Reality Matrix Effect
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Laura Remson Mitchell (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Collecting Dreams
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I Thirst (The Veritas Chronicles, #1)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The True Heaven: Not What You Thought, Better Than You Expected
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4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Dream Catcher
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Rose and the Sword (The Veritas Chronicles, #2)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)
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Gina Marinello-Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,809,971 ratings
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The Lathe of Heaven
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Doors of Sleep (Journals of Zaxony Delatree, #1)
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Tim Pratt (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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Time and Time Again: Sixteen Stories of Time Travel
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VALIS
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3.91 avg rating — 32,409 ratings
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The Inverted World
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3.95 avg rating — 10,670 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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3.93 avg rating — 79,068 ratings
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Ghost Country (Travis Chase, #2)
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Patrick Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 6,627 ratings
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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3.91 avg rating — 45,239 ratings
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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White Space (Dark Passages, #1)
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Ilsa J. Bick (Goodreads Author)
3.28 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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The Gone World
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3.92 avg rating — 26,985 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book
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Mirrored Time (A Time Archivist Novel, #1)
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J.D. Faulkner (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings
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A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)
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Laura Whitcomb (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 20,354 ratings
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The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 656,543 ratings
score: 84,
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Strange Attractors
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3.74 avg rating — 281 ratings
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The Maker of Universes (World of Tiers, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 2,150 ratings
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A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials
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3.79 avg rating — 6,302 ratings
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 77,429 ratings
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The Neverending Story
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Worlds Enough...and Time
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Morning Girl
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Broken Symmetry
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3.86 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)
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Carrie Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 87,222 ratings
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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Fair Coin (Coin, #1)
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E.C. Myers (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
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Paths to Otherwhere
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Heartbeat
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The Time Traveler's Almanac
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Ann VanderMeer (Editor)
3.86 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
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The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2)
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Michael Scott (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 100,756 ratings
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A Maze of Death
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Now Wait for Last Year
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Finity
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Here, There, and Everywhere
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Chris Roberson (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Vurt
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Chronic City
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The Walls of the Universe (Universe, #1)
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Resonance
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Chris Dolley (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Cosmic Puppets
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Martian Time-Slip
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The Unit
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Terminal Regression
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Mallory Hill (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Seclusion (The Seclusion series, 1)
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Jacqui Castle (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
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Lauren DeStefano (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 100,769 ratings
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Grey
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Jon Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Imaginations (The Last City of Men #1)
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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The Marrow Thieves
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The Memoirs of a Survivor
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A Dream of Wessex
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One World United
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Jean Marie Stanberry (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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The Naked Sun (Robot, #2)
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The Time Machine
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Harrison Bergeron
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Inside Out (Insider, #1)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 25,048 ratings
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The Screwfly Solution
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Raccoona Sheldon (Pseudonym)
4.07 avg rating — 657 ratings
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Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
