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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,531,909 ratings — published 1948
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,885,470 ratings — published 2018
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,505,605 ratings — published 2022
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,019,084 ratings — published 2017
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.37 — 891,476 ratings — published 1946
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.49 — 815,257 ratings — published 2016
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,670,399 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,753,170 ratings — published 2007
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,609,715 ratings — published 1945
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,276,652 ratings — published 2011
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,505,484 ratings — published 2020
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,871,437 ratings — published 1953
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.35 — 287,207 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.41 — 817,137 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,977 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.13 — 809,976 ratings — published 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,938,932 ratings — published 1960
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,216,017 ratings — published 1997
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,628,965 ratings — published 2024
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.37 — 695,691 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,218 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.34 — 171,649 ratings — published 2019
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,824 ratings — published 2017
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,609,032 ratings — published 1988
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,286 ratings — published 2015
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.47 — 408,880 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,114 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,518,920 ratings — published 2003
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,829,179 ratings — published 1993
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.24 — 805,099 ratings — published 1966
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,202,329 ratings — published 2012
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,208,232 ratings — published 2018
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,507,375 ratings — published 1943
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,373,387 ratings — published 1956
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,016,217 ratings — published 1999
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,373,131 ratings — published 2005
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,760,192 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,222,610 ratings — published 1947
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,094,212 ratings — published 1932
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.83 — 581,439 ratings — published 2023
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,427,257 ratings — published 2016
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.35 — 202,996 ratings — published 2018
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.85 — 866,915 ratings — published 2005
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.16 — 627,059 ratings — published 2012
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,455,325 ratings — published 1985
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,224,753 ratings — published 1954
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,411 ratings — published 2007
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,967,359 ratings — published 1925
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.14 — 108,387 ratings — published 2025
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as eye-opening)
avg rating 4.31 — 189,482 ratings — published 2024
“In the past I had often tried to escape the grown-up world of sorrow through my imagination- dreaming that a handsome young lieutenant would ride to my rescue or that a great empresario would discover my musical talents and whisk me away. I had envisioned knights in shining armor and happily ever after scenes to escape from rules or boredom or pain; including a vision of my mother walking through our front door whole and well again. Now I knew that a lifetime of escape led to a life like Aunt Bertie's. My imagination was a gift, but I had to live in the real world. My eyes had been opened this summer to poverty and crime and abuse and I needed to use my imagination not to escape, but to help people like Irina and Katya, to make my own contribution as the women in the women's pavilion had done. I couldn't do it in the same way Jane Adams and my grandmother and Aunt Mat were, but I would find my own way and my own time.”
― A Proper Pursuit
― A Proper Pursuit
“Success is how high you bounce after you hit the bottom.”
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