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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.87 — 962,208 ratings — published 1955
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,554,520 ratings — published 2003
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,230 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,708 ratings — published 1988
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,950,119 ratings — published 1951
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,506 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,425 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,607,278 ratings — published 1948
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 215,504 ratings — published 2016
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,033,471 ratings — published 1999
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,907 ratings — published 2007
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,249,689 ratings — published 1964
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,760 ratings — published 2006
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,747 ratings — published 1991
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,896,094 ratings — published 2011
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,489,557 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,672,920 ratings — published 1945
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.33 — 60,784 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,113,450 ratings — published 1932
I Hate My Bow! (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 2.41 — 315 ratings — published 1996
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian Vision—Essential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.18 — 43,890 ratings — published 1925
Love You Forever (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.38 — 249,136 ratings — published 1986
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,997,592 ratings — published 1960
Battersea Parker (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,581 ratings — published
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.10 — 439,606 ratings — published 2020
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.67 — 54,446 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,910,250 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.69 — 203,782 ratings — published 1848
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,253,396 ratings — published 1954
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.37 — 706,295 ratings — published 2020
Battersea Parker 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,414 ratings — published
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,027,218 ratings — published 2017
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.50 — 140,053 ratings — published 1928
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,283,880 ratings — published 2004
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,889,247 ratings — published 1937
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.35 — 373,316 ratings — published 1971
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.14 — 311,025 ratings — published 1970
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.05 — 637,361 ratings — published 1999
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.73 — 294,245 ratings — published 1971
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,687 ratings — published 1995
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.86 — 242,205 ratings — published 1979
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.65 — 78,962 ratings — published 1934
Walter the Farting Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,873 ratings — published 2001
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,823,743 ratings — published 2012
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.95 — 258,409 ratings — published 1970
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.06 — 596,831 ratings — published 1977
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,503,818 ratings — published 1969
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,723,538 ratings — published 2016
Time to Pee! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as controversial)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,568 ratings — published
“This book appears at a time when public discussion of the common atrocities of sexual and domestic life has been made possible by the women’s movement, and when public discussion of the common atrocities of political life has been made possible by the movement for human rights. I expect the book to be controversial—first, because it is written from a feminist perspective; second, because it challenges established diagnostic concepts; but third and perhaps most importantly, because it speaks about horrible things, things that no one really wants to hear about.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“John Lennon once claimed that his band, The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Lennon’s life paralleled Christ’s - both came from nothing, became figureheads of worldwide cults and changed the world. They also had premature, painful and undeserved deaths at the hands of others who envied and craved their abilities, influence and popularity. In the late Sixties, Lennon even seemed to adopt a Christ-like image with his long hair, beard and the various robes he started wearing, perhaps as a sly visual parody of his previous remarks.”
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